Fiction

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Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and a story by Lenny Bruce.

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/20/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight Fortunato reads excerpts from a history of Comedy in America.In this selection, author Kliph Nesteroff looks at the emergence of modern comedy in night clubs, records and late night television. Featiring acconts of Johnaton Winters, Dick Gregory , Dick Cavett, Je... Read more

The Return of Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/19/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
  Fortunato sets up another program of music and radio drama. Today we present part 3 of Ian Fleming's Cold War Thriller Moonraker. Read more

TJ Klune, author of Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
TJ Klune, author of The House In the Cerulean Sea, is back with his new sequel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Join us for a wide-ranging talk about publishing, queer lit, and the things we fight for. Read more

Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festiv... Read more

Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot from Sibylline Press. Suzy’s published fiction includes the novel Faultland and the young adult novels The Moment Before and The Empress Chronicles series. Her award-winning short fiction and no... Read more

Eddie Muller - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film p... Read more

Women in Animation

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Women in Animation is a global organization which has made great strides in the film industry.  Portland chapter leaders Sara Logan Hofstein and Christina Palomino are helping host a panel discussion at this year’s Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. Read more

Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel from Portland’s Hawthorne Books. Sidney’s book is a fictionalized account of the life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became instrumental in ending slavery in the U.S., and who m... Read more

The Uses of Sorrow

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The Uses of Sorrow (in my sleep i dreamed this poem ) Someone I loved once gave me  A box full of darkness It took me years to understand, That this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver Oliver's poem is an apt description of the 2019 dark and brooding memoir by Adrienne Bro... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 15, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 07/15/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Media Watch: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? US Guardian correspondent and activist Rebecca Solnit argues that the corporate media is hell... Read more