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Lev Raphael                                   
BookTalk Host info@wlnz.org                                                                                       

Though Michigan has been his home for half his life, Lev Raphael grew up in New York City where his favorite stations were the classical WQXR and the album rock WNEW which featured the great DJs Scott Muni and Alison Steele. One of the many things he enjoys about hosting BookTalk is getting to be a DJ every week, if just for a few minutes, when he plays new music at the break.

Lev's musical tastes are very varied: Rachmaninoff, Scissor Sisters, Spoon, Chopin, Cesaria Evora, Vinicius Cantuaria, St. Germain, Rameau, Henri Salvador, Roxy Music, Jane's Addiction, Bowie and Puccini.

Lev Raphael appeared as a book critic on NPR's The Todd Mundt Show for five years before becoming the Host of BookTalk on WLNZ. Lev also does a monthly book feature on WKAR with Melissa Ingells called "Under the Radar."

For ten years Lev reviewed regularly for The Detroit Free Press, where he had his own mysteries column. Lev has also reviewed for the Washington Post,

Jerusalem Report, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Lambda Book Report and Boston Review.

Lev is the prize-winning author of fifteen books in a wide variety of genres, from memoir to mystery. His comic Nick Hoffman series features an academic sleuth at the fictional State University of Michigan in the town of "Michiganapolis." 

Lev holds a PH.D. in American Studies from MSU and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He taught at the college level for thirteen years before giving it up to write full-time, and has never regretted the decision.

Lev loves to travel, especially to Canada, and he owns more books than he can ever possibly read. He lives in Okemos with his partner and two West Highland White Terriers.

You can read about the series and his other books at his web site: www.levraphael.com.

BookTalk airs on WLNZ on Wednesdays at 1pm and Sundays at 2:00pm

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March 1 & March 4
Robert Eversz, Zero to the Bone.  He lives in Europe but writes a 
sizzling and widely-translated series set in Los Angeles featuring a 
Generation X female sleuth named Nina Zero.