Fiction

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Poetic License

  --->   Every first Monday from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Poetic License: The liberty taken by an artist/writer in deviating from conventional rules to produce a desired effect.  In this one hour show, the first Monday of every month, Turiya will explore the spoken word art... Read more

Billy Mondo and Theresa Mitchell host A TWISTED CHRISTMAS

Airs at: Thu, 12/25/2014 at 9:00am - 12:00pm
Billy Mondo and Theresa Mitchell host A TWISTED CHRISTMAS  Machine wrapped with vita-vega-mins. Guaranteed 99% plutonium-free. [2018 postscript: we arrived drunk and got drunker.  This is a premeditated radio atrocity, with Will Mustoe's amazing record collection!  Be ye wa... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a voice for the struggles of Black women in novels and short stories prized for their folksy wisdom and original voices," J. California Cooper died last week at 82 years old. The Times continued with a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann

Airs at: Thu, 08/07/2014 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann. the author of nine novels, three collections of short fiction, a memoir, and six works of non-fiction, including the seven-volume treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. Vollmann won the 2005 National Book Award for Fi... Read more

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu

Airs at: Thu, 07/31/2014 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an... Read more

Author Lisa See

Airs at: Tue, 06/03/2014 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts talks with acclaimed author Lisa See whose new book, China Dolls, features the era of the Asian American nightclubs during the 1930s to 50s. Her previous books, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy focused mainly on characters living... Read more

Bring Back Reality w/ Keith Bloom & Scotty Sounds!

Please check out our mixcloud page for all our archived shows!!! https://www.mixcloud.com/bringbackreality/ Welcome to our Realm ! Music, Food, Art, Humor, Culture, Improv, Interviews, People, Life, PDX and Suprise Characters will create the show we get to share with you. ... Read more

D'Norgia Taylor, "If By Chance"

Airs at: Thu, 09/05/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
D'Norgia Taylor writes science fiction for all ages and all kinds of people.  "A lot of it is about escape -- getting away from whatever the issues...that you want to escape from -- or to."  Her latest work, If By Chance, deals with a generational curse that besets a small ... Read more

Between the Covers on 04/04/13

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2013 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Peter Rock, novelist and professor at Reed College, discusses his latest book, "The Shelter Cycle," which dramatizes the experience of a small group of children as they and their families prepare for the end of the world in Montana in 1990. It also focuses on the complicate... Read more

Author Jonathan R. Miller discusses mystery thriller, Delivery

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Author Jonathan R. Miller writes literary fiction thrillers that include multicultural or biracial characters and themes.  His latest work,  Delivery, features a  biracial Somali man who is blinded while defending his daughter.  Ambojeem, the protagonist, settles in the rel... Read more