Aug 10, 2007 — Summer-books selections from St. John Flynn, host of Georgia Public Radio's Cover to Cover, a monthly author-interview and listener call-in show devoted to Georgia authors.
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Georgia Public Broadcasting veteran St. John Flynn launched the decade-old Cover to Cover in part to assuage his guilt over his unfinished doctorate in comparative literature. The show is a monthly on-air book club focused on notable Georgia authors; in November 2006, Cover to Cover launched a weekly podcast incorporating shows from the program's 100-episode archive.
As for the host's name, it's pronounced "Sin-Jun," which inspired a limerick by Cover to Cover guest James Martin Rhodes, author of In My Father's Generation:
There was a young bloke name of Flynn
Whose primary sin was gin.
When he had a good snout full,
He was often quite doubtful,
If his moniker was St. John or Flynn.
This summer, Flynn recommends these books by some of Georgia's finest:
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