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September 30, 2020
Check out my radio interview on AM620, WZON, a station owed by the horror writer Stephen King. The station is located in King’s hometown, Bangor, Maine.
It’s from a segment of the “Downtown with Rich Kimball” show, called Sports Lit 101, which is broadcast live each Wednesday at 3:30 PM. This broadcast was the third and last segment devoted to my book, Race Across America.
August 16, 2020
RACE ACROSS AMERICA by Charles B. Kastner awarded the 2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-Fiction
THE PAUL COWAN NON-FICTION AWARD, first given 1990, was named to honor Paul Cowan, a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ecuador from 1966 to 1967. Cowan wrote The Making of An Un–American: A Dialogue with Experience about his time as a Volunteer in Latin America in the ’60s. A longtime activist and political writer for The Village Voice, Cowan died of leukemia in 1988.

About the Author
Charles B. Kastner is a Seattle-based writer who has spent the last twenty years learning and writing about the bunion derbies. In 2007, the University of New Mexico Press published his history of the 1928 race; in 2014, Syracuse University Press published his history of the 1929 race. He holds advanced degrees in business administration, history, and environmental biology. Kastner has run twenty-five marathons and one ultramarathon over a racing career that began when he joined his high school cross country team in 1970. In recent years, he has taken up the sport of boxing, a throwback to the days of the bunioneers, when many were both accomplished long-distance runners and prize fighters.
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