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The Sampler Returns!

Airs at: Mon, 02/11/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
We're back for another month! Just Jess and Fortunato welcome back film critic DK Holm to play music and talk about current movies and tv shows. And, for your listening pleasure, we present a radio adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps". But this version sta... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Connie King Leonard

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2019 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Connie King Leonard, author of the new novel, Sleeping In My Jeans, from Portland’s Ooligan Press. Sleeping In My Jeans tells the story of sixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins and her six-year-old sister Meg, who become homeless in Eugene, Oregon when... Read more

"Watch Us Rise," Portland author Renee Watson's latest young adult novel

Airs at: Thu, 02/07/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and... Read more

Lake City by Thomas Kohnstamm

Airs at: Thu, 02/07/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Thomas Kohnstamm, author of the new novel Lake City, from Counterpoint Press. Lake City tells the story of Lane Bueche, a 27 year-old reluctant adult, born and raised in the Northeast Seattle neighborhood Lake City, a place untouched by the growth... Read more

Those Willows perform live on The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Last show of the month, but our first live band for the year. Those Willows will be setting up in the big studio to perform live during our second hour. Fortunato will be joined by film critic DK Holm as well as film scholar Elliot Levine. Together they will discuss this we... Read more

Phil Proctor

Airs at: Thu, 01/24/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Phil Proctor co-founded the legendary Firesign Theatre comedy troupe over 50 years ago, and has never slowed down since.  Best known for his contribution to such groundbreaking albums as How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, he's also a ve... Read more

20,000 Years Under the Sea by Kevin J. Anderson

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/22/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we present a steam punk, cross over, pastiche combining the works of Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft. "20,000 Years Under The Sea" by Kevin J. Anderson, finds Captain Nemo, and the crew of his now crippled submarine boat The Nautilus, seeking shelter to make repairs ... Read more

Jason Lutes - Berlin

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jason Lutes is a dogged comics storyteller.  His previous graphic novel Jar of Fools was serialized for years in Seattle's Stranger newspaper before being collected in book form.  Now comes the 600-page magnum opus Berlin, a sprawling tale of urban struggle in Germany du... Read more

Pretend We Live Here: Stories

Airs at: Thu, 01/31/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In Pretend We Live Here, characters bleed and breathe with a caustic energy that dares the reader to keep pace as they are taken from the Deep South to Western Europe and back again. Genevieve Hudson is a new, coming-of-age voice that spotlights rural America, injecting... Read more

Hannah Versus the Tree by Leland de la Durantaye

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of the new novel Hannah Versus the Tree from McSweeney’s Press. Leland is a critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at the Claremont Colleges. His journalism and criticism have appeared in The New ... Read more