Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Vietnam Veteran & Award-Winning Novelist James Janko.

James is the author of three celebrated novels. He first discovered his voice as a writer while working nights as a watchman on Alcatraz Island National Park from 1979 to 1992. Word by word, he fell in Love with language and learned the craft of storytelling.

His acclaimed book What We Don’t Talk About (University of Wisconsin Press) explores life in his rural Illinois hometown. Now, his newest 2025 novel, The Wire-Walker, is earning rave reviews and adding to his decorated literary career.

We dig into this powerful new book, his journey as both veteran and writer, and so much more. Enjoy.

More on James → https://jamesjanko.com/

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Joe Dimino Podcaster/Artist

Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.