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Among Books with PA State Senator Art Haywood | Ep 2

Among Books

Release Date: 09/26/2025

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Among Books

Among Books is a passion project about reading and more. The show brings the spirit of Kouvenda — a Greek word for chat, talk, conversation — front and center. With a focus on reading, guests discuss various books and share aspects of their lives in conversations that unfold from the lighthearted to the profound and everything in between. Produced and hosted by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder, Among Books is recorded in person at the cozy Hilltop Books in Northwest Philadelphia. Show notes for each episode include a related reading list.  

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Pennsylvania State Senator Art Haywood sits down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

Senator Haywood represents the state's 4th Senatorial District, which includes Montgomery & Philadelphia Counties.

To learn more about Senator Haywood: 

https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1689/senator-art-haywood

Senator Haywood’s Book

Campaigns for COMPASSION: A Story of Community Change 

https://outskirtspress.com/arthaywood

 

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder.

For more about Kouvenda Media and Hilltop Books:

https://www.kouvendamedia.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kouvendamedia/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/kouvendamedia

https://hilltopbooks.org/

https://www.instagram.com/hilltopbooksphilly/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/hilltopbooksphilly/

 

POST-SHOW READING LIST

Lovely One: A Memoir

By Ketanji Brown Jackson

 

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By Jonathan M. Metzl

 

The Bible

 

Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

 

Clyde: The Walt Frazier Story 

By Walt Frazier and Joe Jares

 

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

By Thomas E. Ricks

 

Campaigns for COMPASSION: A Story of Community Change 

By Art Haywood

 

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters 

By Priya Parker 

 

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership 

By Harold Cruse

 

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept 

By W.E.B. Du Bois

 

The Souls of Black Folk  

By W.E.B. Du Bois

 

The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union 

By James M. McPherson