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Episode 364: Book Nerd Alerts: Deone Wilhite’s Love of Reading
Episode 364
Saturday, 17 January, 2026
I was really excited to interview my friend and fellow book lover, Deone Wilhite. Deone and I were in a book club together in the mid-1990s in Austin, Texas. He is a community activist, a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, a long-suffering Dallas Cowboys fan, and a not-so-suffering UT Longhorns football fan. On Facebook, he is well known for his book nerd alerts, grabbing the attention of his fellow readers for recommending tomes that have blown him away.In the interview, Deone credits his late mother for his love of reading. He said, “My mother was a schoolteacher, so there were always lots of books and reading materials around.” He cites this environment for sparking his lifelong love of reading. We talked about his favorite authors, 1990s hip hop, and the best book he read in 2025, THE AFTERLIFE OF MALCOLM X by Mark Whitaker.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com
