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THE SECOND OSWALD sheds light on a little known aspect of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Could the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, been set up to be the patsy? The series focuses on writer Kerry Thornley who served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the US Marines and wrote a novel about him a year BEFORE he killed JFK.
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A Novel Idea

Suzanne M. Lang

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Non-fiction to pulp fiction, host Suzanne M. Lang explores the world of books featuring conversations with writers, academics, and readers. We all have a story to tell. It’s A Novel Idea.
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Suzanne Lang talks with philanthropist, motivational speaker, and author Jillian Haslam on her memoir A Voice Out of Poverty. Haslam grew up in India amongst the poorest of the poor, for a time living with her family under a cement stairwell; she miraculously emerged to work in international banking and has founded educational and vocational organi…
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The German occupation of Paris during World War II was a time of shifting and uncertain alliances, and life for Parisians required a bit of careful attention. Suzanne Lang talks with Aurelie Thiele, author of the historical novel, The Paris Understudy, a sweeping tale of the Paris Opera world, two rival opera singers, their struggle for success ami…
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Becoming who we are. Suzanne M. Lang talks with thought leader, McArthur Fellow, and founder of the Sphinx Project, Aaron P. Dworkin on his book “Lessons in Gratitude, a Memoir on Race, the Arts, and Mental Health”. Becoming who we are. Suzanne M. Lang talks with thought leader, McArthur Fellow, and founder of the Sphinx Project, Aaron P. Dworkin o…
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A Novel Idea goes polar with Cynthia Reeves and her novel of love, loss, and survival at the top of the world, THE LAST WHALER. Also featured is journalist Andrea Pitzer with her riveting tale of polar explorer William Barents’ time stuck in the frozen polar ice and overwintering there in the late 16th Century. It’s A Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang. …
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Fred Waitzkin, best-selling author of Searching for Bobby Fischer, joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on his writing and latest work addressing friendship and homelessness, Anything is Good. Also featured is Susan Sisko Carter, singer and Hollywood scriptwriter, with her novel, The Lyric Hotel. It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday August 4th at 10am PT on KRC…
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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, it was tenacious and savvy black musicians who paved the way. Suzanne Lang talks with Larry Tye whose book is The Jazzmen, How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. Also featured is Carl Unegbu with his book Comedy Goes To Court, When People Stop Laughing and Start Fighting. It’s A Nove…
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Suzanne Lang talks with award winning author of books for kids and adults, Susan Muaddi Darraj, whose novel is BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA. This story of diaspora, of people living in a Palestinian American community in Baltimore, is an immigrant tale of generations. Rex Ogle also joins Suzanne and talks about his latest memoir geared toward young adults…
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The importance of gathered botanical and ecological knowledge to our survival as human beings in a changing landscape is explored. Suzanne Lang talks with evolutionary biologist and science writer Erin Zimmerman, whose book is Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science, a memoir of botany and natural history seen through the…
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Depression, panic attacks, mania are all forms of mental dis-order. Therapy, medication, and strong support systems can help restore a bit of balance. Suzanne Lang talks with Anastasia Zadeik about her novel of art, philosophy, and people searching for love, stability, and fulfillment while experiencing mental distress, The Other Side of Nothing. A…
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When fiction is grounded in scientific fact, our world opens up. Suzanne Lang talks with novelist Elizabeth Reed Aden on her medical thriller The Goldilocks Genome, which uses the science behind pharmaceuticals and the human body to create a taut story of terrorism and the geeks who pursue the terrorist. Also featured is award winning writer Nell F…
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It’s all about water. Suzanne Lang talks with author, photographer, and conservationist Tim Palmer on his book Seek Higher Ground, the Natural Solution to our Urgent Flooding Crisis. Tim explores the legacy of flooding in America and the climatic, economic, and ecological realities of our rivers and communities. Also featured is another visit with …
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A dancer on Everest and a queen of high climbing mountaineers are featured. Suzanne Lang talks with Mimi Zieman, doctor and author of “The Post Roe Monologues” whose latest book is Tap Dancing on Everest —a Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure, a chronicle of her life and serving as the team doctor on a dicey ascent from Tibet up the east side of Mt. …
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Stories from the devastating times in Europe during World War II, —told to us by the people who lived through them, speak loudly to us in our current moment of brutal wars and suffering people. Suzanne Lang talks with Alfred J. Lakritz on his book Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival. His warm and moving tale relates his separation from his parent…
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We go above and below, at every depth. Tessa Hill joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on At Every Depth, Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans, the book she wrote with science writer Eric Simons that takes readers from the shore to the ocean depths, from the tropics to polar regions, and introduces us to people who are working hard to save ou…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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 FRON…
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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, …
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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 gh…
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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 …
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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 co…
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Eliot Pattison is the author of gritty mysteries set in the historic past and joins Suzanne Lang for an hour of conversation. His latest novel is Freedoms’s Ghost, a Mystery of the American Revolution, a recent installment into his Bone Rattler series, set in the pre-Revolutionary War Colonial America. Also featured is a 2019 segment with Eliot dis…
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Award winning writer and historian Julia Bricklin joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her most recent book Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist, the story of Hannah Weinstein, a left leaning activist who fled to Europe during the McCarthy era, and established Sapphire Films. With little background, she began producing successful television s…
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Kerry Thornley starts believing he was part of CIA’s MKUltra brainwashing experiments to erase his memories to frame Lee Harvey Oswald. Soon, Kerry falls down the conspiracy rabbit hole and alienates his friends with the exception of Robert Anton Wilson. Together they begin a disinformation campaign blaming everything on the Illuminati, and inadver…
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New Orleans’ district attorney Jim Garrison emerged as a white knight from the dark forest of conspiracies to prosecute a charming gay businessman, Clay Shaw, for the assassination of the President. He believed there were too many coincidences in his city between the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, and Lee Harvey Oswald. He also felt that Kerry Thornley w…
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One of the conspiracy theories floating around is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a double agent working for the Soviets. A "Manchurian Candidate" programmed to be an unwitting assassin in an international plot hatched by who else – his mother. Meanwhile, Kerry Thornley moves to New Orleans to write his novel about his buddy, Oswald – and meets two shad…
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As a teenager in the boring 1950’s – Kerry Thornley created a spoof religion called Discordianism based on chaos in a bowling alley. Later, Thornley joined the Marines and befriends Lee Harvey Oswald, who becomes the inspiration for a novel he plans to write. After Oswald defects to the Soviet Union – Thornley becomes a pawn in a grand conspiracy t…
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THE SECOND OSWALD sheds light on a little known aspect of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Could the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, been set up to be the patsy? The series focuses on writer Kerry Thornley who served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the US Marines and wrote a novel about him a year befo…
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Esmeralda Santiago, a prolific Puerto Rican author of a series of memoirs, along with nonfiction works, and works for young people joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her life, Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and her latest novel Las Madres. Corky Parker, with roots in Public Radio and a successful career with her own media company, buys a small inn on th…
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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…
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Writers at different stages and phases of their craft. Suzanne Lang features three novelists at varying stages in their craft. Longtime journalist and South County Notebook columnist for the Petaluma Argus-Courier, Frances Rivetti talks of moving from nonfiction to fiction, as she writes of place. Internationally best-selling author Samantha Downin…
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Marked Women is the focus this time on A Novel Idea. First, Suzanne Lang talks with Laura Maylene Walter on her award-winning novel Body of Stars. Then, it's a conversation with historians Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus on their nonfiction work, Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute. It’s A Novel Idea, airing every first, third, and fifth Sund…
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Marine mammal researcher and co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society, Maddalena Bearzi, like many of us, had her work curtailed during the initial shutdown period of the pandemic. But her habit is to observe, and her world did not get smaller, as she found a universe of life right in her own backyard. Her book is Stranded, Finding Nature in Un…
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