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Terry LaBan

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
Casey Lowe, also known by some as their artist name kc lo, is a Portland, Oregon based artist whose mediums include mixed media drawing, painting, and poetry. Their visual subjects include expressive figure, self-portraiture, minimal line work, and a queer aesthetic and ... Read more

Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl from Heliotrope Books. Nancy’s work has appeared in Newsweek, Hippocampus, The Big Smoke, Nailed magazine, the Timberline Review, Elephant Journal, and several anthologies. Sunshine Girl is... Read more

Harry Lime and the Man Of Mystery

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Harry is hired by a mysterious billionare to find out a secret. Joining Fortunato will be Proffessor Kitty to discuss some of the interesting themes and characters in today's production. Read more

More Alarms At Night by James Thurber

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/17/2020 at 12:00am
A humourous rememberance by New Yorker writer and cartoonist James Thurber of his growing up in Columbus, Ohio at the start of the 20th Century. One night, young James can't fall asleep as he is fixated on recalling the name of a certain town in New Jersey that has two w... Read more

Katherine Dunn Reads . . .

Produced for:  Gremlin Time
  A collection of stories read by Katherine Dunn, as Red Ryder, for KBOO's Gremlin Time. Broadcasted on KBOO every Saturday morning from 1979 to 1983..   Read more

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Airs at: Thu, 04/17/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Dan Nadel is an author and curator whose books include It’s Life As a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980; The Collected Hairy Who Publications; and the recently published Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, which follows the career and personal life of undergro... Read more

Once Upon A Time

Airs at: Fri, 04/11/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
This Friday, Once Upon a Time, is proud to have  an Encore with Sulima Malzin. Our loyal audience have asked for her to return to our show.  Returning guests can be a challenge. This time is  not the case.Since it’ll focus again on her literature work, we are planning to... Read more

Laura Stanfill, author of Imagine A Door, a guidebook for writers

Airs at: Thu, 04/10/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Laura Stanfill, author of the new book Imagine A Door: A Writer’s Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing A Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Laura’s debut novel Singing Lessons for the... Read more

Orson Welles Returns as Harry Lime

Airs at: Mon, 04/14/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato starts our month long run of The Adventures of Harry Lime. Today's story, The Golden Fleece, begins in Madrid where Harry meets a beautiful woman at a bull fight.  Finding out that she  needs to hire a ship's captain, Unfortunately for Harry, he talks himself i... Read more