Fiction

South of the Slot by Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Fortunato reads a short story set in San Francisco in the days before the great 1906 earthquake, "South of the Slot" by america's greatest writer Jack London. UC Berkeley sociology professor Freddie Drummon has published a number of well receaved books about condit... Read more

Elizabeth McCracken, from Boston to Austin

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

Stacy Brewster, author of What We Pick Up

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we welcome Stacy Brewster, author of the new story collection What We Pick Up, from Portland’s Buckman Publishing.   Stacy is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter based here in Portland. Born in Los Angeles and raised both there and in the San Francisco... Read more

Maus author Art Spiegelman

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with Spiegelman. Included in this episode are excerpts ... Read more

16 - Raising Hell with Robin Vidgeon

Airs at: Fri, 03/18/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  Tune in for episode 16 as Poxy & Ragan interview legendary cinematographer, Robin Vidgeon, whose work with Director, Clive Barker, culminated in the horror classics Hellraiser and Nightbreed. An honorary member of the British Society of Cinematographers and winner of th... Read more

The Last House on the Street

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Mystery writer Diane Chamberlain combines her love of mystery writing with her concern for voter registration in her most recent novel, The Last House on the Street. Larry Bowlden reviews the 2021 novel about how the lives of two women converge in a story about voter regist... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 7, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: In Memoriam: Bill Resnick talks to Jane Slaughter, long time editor of the monthly publication Labor Notes, about the life and work of Mike Parker, who died this past January. Parker w... Read more

YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND?

Airs at: Thu, 02/03/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
   Yinka Oladeji is 30-something, Oxford-educated, and up for a promotion at her impressive bank job.   She has a supportive network of friends and family who love her dearly, but her personal and professional success doesn’t stop her many "aunties" from constantly asking w... Read more

Ivan Brunetti

Airs at: Thu, 02/24/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  From member of the Chicago underground comics scene to New Yorker cover artist and college professor, Ivan Brunetti has been challenging readers with his scathing satire and sharp intellect for decades.  Now, he's brought his theories of comics structure to the mainstre... Read more

Portland's Short Story All Stars: Margaret Malone, Kimberly King Parsons, Karen Russell, and Lidia Yuknavitch

Airs at: Thu, 01/27/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Just about two years ago BP (Before Pandemic), I had the great pleasure of welcoming to KBOO four of the very best short fiction writers in Portland, in the whole country for that matter: Margaret Malone, author of People Like You, which was a Pen Hemingway finalist; Kimber... Read more