Jennifer Manocherian and Jude Berman on A Novel Idea
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by Suzanne M. Lang
1w ago
Jennifer Manocherian’s book is Alpha Bette, sort of the opposite of a coming of age story. It takes place over the course of a single day and is centered around a 95  year old widow, Bette Gartner, who wakes up one morning in her New York City apartment and decides to throw a dinner party that evening, with a surprising guest list. Manocherian, who has produced Broadway plays, written books for a couple of musicals, and has produced and written for film, joins Suzanne Lang in conversation to talk about this, her first Novel, Alpha Bette. Suzanne also talks with Jude Berman ..read more
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Terence Ward and Eugenio Volpe on A Novel Idea
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by Suzanne M. Lang
3w ago
For the past four hundred years, the groundbreaking Italian artist, Caravaggio, has challenged, intrigued, and transformed us. Suzanne Lang talks with Terence Ward on his book that combines memoir, history, biography, and journalism, The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life.   Suzanne also talks with author Eugenio Volpe on his post-modern novel I, Caravaggio, that depicts the artist’s phychological unraveling while evolving his art and arising as a super star. It’s A Novel Idea. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.  ..read more
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Novelists who write inside of their calling on A Novel Idea (Aired: February 18, 2024)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
1M ago
Novelists who write inside of their calling. D.J. Green is a geologist and writer who brings her love of the planet into a drama that ranges from the external challenges of earthquake prone Turkey to the inner lives of an American family living there in her book No More Empty Spaces. Historian and archivist, Lynn Downey talks about her interests in Western fashion and dude ranches in her novel set on one, Dude or Die. Both authors join host Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea.     Click the icon below to listen.        ..read more
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Parisa Akhbari, Naomi Ko, Cade Palmer, Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, and Jennie Orvino on A Novel Idea (Aired: February 4, 2024)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
1M ago
Poetry communicates, teaches, and binds us together. Parisa Akhbari (@authorparisa) a mental health therapist and writer from Seattle, Washington joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on her YA novel, Just Another Epic Love Poem, which follows two queer best friends in Catholic school as they fall in love through the pages of a never-ending poem they’ve been writing back and forth for five years. Also featured are Youth Poet Ambassadors from the Marin Poetry Center, Naomi Ko and Cade Palmer along with their mentor Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, and author & poet Jennie Orvino reading the works of ..read more
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Marilyn Dear Nelson and her husband Chris Nelson on A Novel Idea (Aired: January 21, 2024)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
2M ago
When Marilyn Dear Nelson and her husband Chris Nelson started digging into her ancestry and the life of great grandfather, JW Dear, they discovered a sweeping story of grit, courage, brutality, and friendship. The resulting book is RED CLOUD AND THE INDIAN TRADER, THE REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP OF THE SIOUX CHIEF AND JW DEAR IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE FRONTIER. The Nelsons join Suzanne Lang in conversation Sunday, January 21st at 10 am PDT. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.         Click the icon below to listen.        ..read more
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C.J. Cook joins Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea (Aired: January 7, 2024)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
2M ago
The South Pacific has inspired artists and writers since the 19th century and Ralph Burke Tyree was among them. Historian and art collector C.J. Cook has produced two definitive works on the artist —Tyree, Artist of the South Pacific, which  has won awards for it’s stunning cover art and as a biography of Tyree;  and now, Beauty in the Beast, Flora, Fauna, and Endangered Species of Artist Ralph Burke Tyree (with Paige Herbert).     CJ Cook joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on A Novel Idea.   Click the icon below to listen.    ..read more
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CJ Cook joins Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea (Aired: January 7, 2024)
KRCB-FM: A Novel Idea
by Suzanne M. Lang
2M ago
The South Pacific has inspired artists and writers since the 19th century and Ralph Burke Tyree was among them. Historian and art collector CJ Cook has produced two definitive works on the artist —Tyree, Artist of the South Pacific, which  has won awards for it’s stunning cover art and as a biography of Tyree;  and now, Beauty in the Beast, Flora, Fauna, and Endangered Species of Artist Ralph Burke Tyree (with Paige Herbert).     CJ Cook joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on A Novel Idea.   Click the icon below to listen.     ..read more
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Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Mojgan Ghazirad on A Novel Idea - Encore for December 31, 2023
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by Suzanne M. Lang
3M ago
On this encore presentation, story and story-tellers are the link to and legacy of our cultural roots and identity. Suzanne Lang talks with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto on her wrenching and sensational story collection,  Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, which follows native Hawaiians through a contemporary landscape filled with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. Suzanne also talks with Mojgan Ghazirad on her autobiographical coming of age novel, The House on Sun Street, set largely in Tehran during the concussive period of the Iranian Revolution, whi ..read more
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Brian H. Williams and Jody Gelb on A Novel Idea - Sunday at 10am (2)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
3M ago
Suzanne Lang talks with Brian H. Williams - trauma surgeon, policy advisor, and current candidate for US Congress, who brings us his intense and eye-opening revelations in  The Bodies Keep Coming, Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.       Then, Jody Gelb, actress, Mother, and author talks with Suzanne about Gelb’s “micro-memoir,” She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy, an impressionistic portrayal of Jody’s life with her family, her career, and daughter Lueza, whose birth went not according to plan and whose happin ..read more
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Shelley Blanton-Stroud and Bob Burnett on A Novel Idea (Aired: December 3, 2023)
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by Suzanne M. Lang
4M ago
Sometimes authors use conventional forms of fiction to explore larger issues of history, gender, love, and success. Called the “Raymond Chandler for feminists”, Shelley Blanton-Stroud delivers the third installment of her novels featuring columnist Jane Benjamin, which include Copy Boy, Tom Boy, and now Poster Girl, and she joins Suzanne Lang in conversation.    Suzanne also talks with mystery writer Bob Burnett about the first in a series featuring US Marshal Kate Swift in Death is Potentail.    Click the icon below to listen.   &nb ..read more
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