The Charlaine Harris interview begins at the 18:30 mark

This week on Dr. Blogstein’s
Radio Happy Hour:

Charlaine Harris is the best selling author of the incredibly popular Southern Vampire novel series revolving around Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid in southern Louisiana and her dealings with vampires and werewolves and other creatures of the night.

Her books are the inspiration and basis for HBO’s True Blood.

Harris just released A Touch of Dead, every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written-in one special volume.

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The Laugh For Sight interview begins at the 6:30 mark

Blind comedian Brian Fischler and Late Show with David Letterman audience warm up comedian Eddie Brill will be performing on Monday, Nov. 16th in Laugh For Sight 4 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City.

Both men will be by to tell us about this comedy benefit event.

If you’re in New York and haven’t gotten your tickets yet, what are you waiting for? You can get them at www.laughforsight.com, or by calling Gotham Comedy Club at 212-367-9000.

The Pete’s Basement segment begins at the 52:05 mark

Broadcasting live from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a group of comic book fanatics have gained a cult-like following with their raves and rants about the industry.

“Pete’s Basement,” a podcast released each Tuesday, features Pete DeLuca, Adam Wiesen, Steve Deninno, and Ramon Chamorro as they literally gather in Pete’s basement to discuss the good and bad in comics, movies, cartoons and what’s happening in the comic book industry.

• Hip-hop star Hassahn Phenomenon is celebrity guest co host this week
• Co-host Vinny Bond sits on his Big Leather Couch to chat live with the listeners

• The Burl of Annie and Burl Live works behind the scenes as pro-doucher

• Justin the Mouthinator will toe the line between manic and psychotic

• and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

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The Charlaine Harris interview begins at about the 25:05 mark
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When Charlaine Harris discusses racial integration in our nation’s public-school system, she knows whence she speaks.

Because during the late ‘60s, at the height of that social experiment, the gothic scribe was a high school student in the tiny town of Tunica, Miss.

Now she reveals on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour that the integration she witnessed serves as a metaphor for the vampires in her bestselling Southern Vampire Mystery series, which  is the basis for the hit HBO series True Blood.

“The scenario of the vampire trying to assimilate into the community – you’ve said in other interviews that, in writing it, you thought of gays and the struggle that they’re going through,” inquires host Dr. Blogstein during the 25- minute interview.

“But, growing up in the South, how much did the Civil Rights movement and the way blacks are treated work its way into the scenario?” he continues.

“To an incredible extent. Because my high school class was the first integrated class in history, in my county,” Charlaine responds.

“It was a very difficult, scary time. I grew up in Mississippi and it was full of change and full of uncertainty.  And yet, long overdue.

“We weren’t sure if there would be violence. We weren’t sure that everything would go peacefully,” continues Charlaine, before telling listeners that she was a senior when the integration got under way.

“They allowed two black kids to – it must’ve been horrible for them – come over and attended school their senior year at our school,” adds Charlaine, whose latest Southern Vampire novel (featuring, as always, heroine Sookie Stackhouse) is titled Dead and Gone.

“And, honestly, I don’t know how they lived through it. Not that anybody threatened them – that I knew of – but it must’ve been so incredibly tense.”

The 57-year-old mom also discusses how she came to master erotic moments in her work.

“The first time I tried it – a full sex scene – was in the first Sookie book, about nine years ago.  And I rewrote it several times because I want ed to catch her awkwardness. This was her first sexual experience and yet I wanted it to be the complete sexual experience,” Charlaine explains.

“I didn’t want to resort to the stereotypical romance novel euphem isms, like ‘pulsating rod’ and stuff like that. And yet I didn’t want to be crude. So it took a lot of thought and it took me a long time.”

To hear Charlaine’s full interview, click here.

This week on Dr. Blogstein’s

Radio Happy Hour:

Charlaine Harris is the best selling author of the incredibly Sookie Stackhouse series revolving around a telepathic barmaid in southern Louisiana and her dealings with vampires and werewolves and other creatures of the night.

Her books are the inspiration and basis for HBO’s True Blood.

Harris’ newest book in the series, Dead and Gone, is on sale now.

Become a Radio Happy Hour subscriber

for free !

Blind comedian Brian Fischler returns to the program to update us from Guide Dog Training School.

The one-time Maxim Magazine Comedian of the Month is the Founder/President of Comedians Unite For Sight, a not for profit that produces Laugh For Sight, a yearly comedy benefit that raises money for retinal degenerative eye diseases.

We uncover the music of  “Larry Loeber.”

Who is Larry Loeber, you ask?  That was the stage name our own Justin the Mouthinator went by during the 80’s when he was an international pop performer.

This is something long time listeners wont want to miss!

All that, plus:

• Dangerous Lee co-hosts

• Vinny Bond sits on his Big Leather Couch to chat live with the listeners

• and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN’S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday September 2 at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)

Carrie Preston comes in at the top of the show
Jenn Sterger comes in at the 46:00 mark

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Actress Carrie Preston sits down for a one on one with Dr. Blogstein.

Starting on Sunday September 6th, Preston takes on the role of “Arlene Fowler,” a small town waitress in the highly anticipated “True Blood,” a new HBO series from creator Alan Ball , alongside Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin.

We’ll sink our teeth into what we should expect from this new vampire series, find out how it relates to our current society and what its like for Preston to wake up to her husband Michael Emerson who plays Benjamin Linus,  the bug-eyed villain on the hit show Lost.

Also coming up on the #1 most listened to comedy/talk show on BlogTalkRadio, a 2008 NFL preview with New York Jets Gameday Host Jenn Sterger.

We’ll find out what exactly a “gameday host” is,  what qualifies this former Playboy and Maxim model to be a “gameday host” and hear how sportscaster Brent Musberger unknowingly launched her career.

All that, plus Dangerous Lee co-hosts,  Vinny Bond drags his Big Leather Couch into the Radio Happy Hour Lounge to chat live with the listeners, Justin the Weatherman and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804.

Join us live every Tuesday night at 9PM ET. The Radio Happy Hour Lounge-a live, interactive chat room during show time-is a whole new reason to make sure you listen live! It’s the show within the show!

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