Read Beat (...and repeat)
If you're like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That's the question. Here's the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren't book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there's a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will agree. I'm Steve Tarter, former reporter for the Peoria Journal Star and a contributor to WCBU-FM, the Peoria public radio outlet, from 20202 to 2024. I post regularly on stevetarter.substack.com.
Read Beat (...and repeat)
"Indian Burial Ground" by Nick Medina
Nick Medina’s Indian Burial Ground is a horror novel that combines stirring storytelling with an exploration of historical racial injustices in America – in this case, the epidemic of alcoholism, suicide, and mental health disorders on Indigenous reservations.
Medina’s sophomore novel again sheds light on issues affecting Native communities, while also delivering a genuinely terrifying and engaging read.
Already at work on a third book in the same horror/Native American vein, Medina told Steve Tarter that his hope is to enlighten readers who might not comprehend some of the problems modern Native Americans face.
Medina, an admitted true-crime TV fan, made his debut in 2023 with Sisters of the Lost Nation, a book which addressed the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Burial Ground is centered around a woman and her uncle as they are haunted by a string of deaths—decades apart—in their Louisiana reservation.
