Fiction

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Review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's Sing, Wild Bird, Sing on the Irish famine

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Irish Famine: Larry Bowlden brings a review of Jacqueline O'Mahony's novel about the 1849 famine in Ireland, Sing, Wild Bird, Sing, a story of leaving and finding the Oregon Territories and a different sort of wanderer. The novel is sad and lovely, informative and enter... Read more

The Horse

Airs at: Sat, 06/29/2024 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
Tune in to KBOO.fm Saturday June 29th from 6:00 am to 9:00 am (PST) as singer, songwriter, and author Willy Vlautin joins me to discuss his love for Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn, and his new book, The Horse. The Horse is a story about a guitar player and songwriter named ... Read more

Emily Jon Tobias, author of the new story collection Monarch

Airs at: Thu, 06/20/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Emily Jon Tobias is an award-winning author and poet. MONARCH from Black Lawrence Press is her debut story collection. Emily's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in literary journals such as Santa Clara Review, Talking River Review, Flying South Li... Read more

Two classic science fiction radio dramas

Airs at: Mon, 06/17/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/18/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight two science fiction radio programs from the early 1950's. A long running anthology series on NBC was Deminsion X and its followup series X Minus One which adapted many stories from the magazines Astounding Tales and Galaxcy. First up is a sort of time travel piece b... Read more

The Opening Sky author Charlotte Watson Sherman

Airs at: Thu, 06/06/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Newly-emancipated Halle decides to leave the plantation in search of her parents.  Aurelia, whose privileged life was ravaged by the Civil War, wants to find her brother, a soldier who fought with the Union army.   Both are plotting their trip North when their paths cross. ... Read more

Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe

Airs at: Thu, 06/13/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Kimberly King Parsons, author of the new novel We Were the Universe, from Knopf. Her story collection, Black Light, which came out in 2019, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. Kim’s a recipient of fellowships from Y... Read more

Planet Juice Box with Thaddeus Thompson

Airs at: Fri, 06/07/2024 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  Thaddeus Thompson discusses his background in claymation and stop motion. He also talks about his latest series, Planet Juice Box,  and how he worked to create it.         Read more

Natural Happiness

Airs at: Sun, 06/02/2024 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Alan Heeks is a conservationist, social entrepreneur and author of Natural Happiness: Use Organic Gardening Skills to Cultivate Yourself. Alan runs workshops on developing personal resilience using organic gardening parallels to help people handle the stresses of modern lif... Read more

Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/21/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight the bedtime radio show for grownups presents the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1944 RKO Pictures production of Raymond Chandler's 1940 detective novel Farewell My Lovely. Retitled as Murder My Sweet,. Dick Powell sheds his pretty boy image of the previous deca... Read more

Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 05/23/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
The Talented Mr. Jonesy is off gallivanting in Italy, we’re not sure exactly where, so we’ll be re-airing a favorite episode from the archives. This one’s from KBOO’s long-running program Between the Covers and features an interview with Kimberly King Parsons for her story ... Read more