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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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Charles Sepos interviews performing, visual, and literary artists. Recent guests include Jeffrey Kahane, David Grisman, Kronos Quartet, Anonymous 4, Michael Brecker, Flora Purim, Malcolm Bilson, John Corigliano, François Girard, Marga Gomez, and Elizabeth Blumenstock.
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A daily five-minute interview about events, issues, activities and people in and around Sonoma County. Hosted by Roland Jacopetti at 7:53AM Monday through Friday on KRCB-FM 91.1/90.9.
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Percussion Discussion focuses on percussionists, drummers and percussion instruments used in all genres of music from big band and smooth jazz and Latin to rock, country and World tunes. Host Jim Laveroni is a drummer and percussionist for over 40 years, and plays with two bands.
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"I like the vitality of in-studio, roundtable interviews," Gil says, "when you have several authors sitting at the same table and focusing on the same theme, you get real conversations. It’s fun, exciting, and often unpredictable." On the new Word by Word programs, Gil will be inviting a different guest each month to share their unique perspective on a "Great California Writer." Gil Mansergh should be familiar to many KRCB listeners. His movie review columns appear in four Sonoma County news ...
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The North Bay Report is a daily in-depth look at an issue, event, person or activity in our region, prepared by KRCB News Director Bruce Robinson, a veteran journalist who has been covering Sonoma County since 1985. These reports provide another view of news and events in our area, a way to look beyond the headlines and hear directly from the people who are shaping the present and future of Sonoma County and northern California. Topics recently covered on The North Bay Report include the reg ...
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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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Parisa Akhbari, Naomi Ko, Cade Palmer, Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, and Jennie Orvino on A Novel Idea (Aired: February 4, 2024)
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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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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True crime and bestselling author Daniel Stashower’s American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper probes the depression era search for the “torso murderer” who left a wake of dismembered bodies in Cleveland Ohio, while also revealing the post-Untouchables life and career of Eliot Ness in his role as Cleveland’s Public Safet…
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A tale of two cities. Suzanne Lang talks with sports executive and author Andy Dolich, who along with journalist Dave Newhouse, authored the book Goodbye Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town’s Fight for Survival about the history of professional teams in Oakland California and their sometimes heartbreaking departures from the city and th…
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Long time activist for economic and environmental justice, Chuck Collins, brings us his provocative novel of the near future, Altar to an Erupting Sun, which opens with a woman strapping a bomb to herself to blow up an oil executive. Also featured is Hannelore Krollpfeiffer’s book, We Lived in Berlin, a Story about the End of the War, finally trans…
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Suzanne Lang talks with novelists Ginny Kubitz Moyer on her historical novel, The Seeing Garden, set in 1910 on the San Francisco Peninsula. Also on the program, Robert McKean, whose novel Mending What is Broken is mad-capped, funny, and heartfelt. It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, July 16th at 10 am PT. Click the icon below to listen.…
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Fire Captain Christy Warren was born to deal with crisis situations and rescuing others. She was tough and decisive under pressure, but when she started experiencing uncontrollable emotional distress, she turned on herself in self-destructive ways and struggled for her own survival. Christy tells her story in Flash Point, a Firefighters Journey thr…
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Tina Davidson is a composer whose music is autobiographical, so her memoir is of course, musical. Suzanne Lang talks with composer Tina Davidson, on her life, work, and memoir: Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music from a Classical Composer. Also featured is Francesco Lecce-Chong, Conductor and Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the E…
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Suzanne Lang talks with prize-winning journalist Mary Jo McConahay on her book Playing God, American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right, which reveals the big money, unholy alliances, and far right agendas held by a faction of American Catholic Bishops. Suzanne also talks with Kate McElwee, Executive Director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, a…
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Baseball and horseracing are two sports that have been with us since before the Civil War and we still enjoy them in one way or another today. Suzanne Lang is joined by sportswriter Dale Tafoya to talk about Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A’s. Then, it's prolific turfwriter Mark Shrager with his book The First Kentucky…
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Suzanne M. Lang is joined by Beth Ann Mathews, Marine biologist and author of Deep Waters, A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled. When her active and energetic husband suffers a rare type of stroke, his idea of recovery -through sailing in the ocean waters off Alaska- challenges Beth’s notions of sense and safety. Her story is fran…
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Joan Frank is simply a master of language and expression, and she has two new books to prove it: a novel, Juniper Street, and a book of essays, Late Work, a Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading. Joan joins Suzanne Lang in a freewheeling conversation on her work and the writer’s life. It's A Novel Idea every first and fifth S…
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Absorbing literary fiction comes from Donnaldson Brown with her decades spanning epic novel Because I Loved You and Samuel W. Gailey with Come Away from Her, his bold mystery set in the cold of Eastern Pennsylvania. Both authors are in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang on A Novel Idea, heard first and fifth Sundays at 10:00 am PT on KRCB 104.9 Sono…
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Actor, singer, and Warner Brothers voice artist for many animated characters, Candi Milo, tells the story of her unusual upbringing in her memoir Surviving the Odd. Her father was entertainer Tony Milo, and when he gave up show business to run a half-way house for mentally ill and emotionally disturbed adults and bring his family into the house, th…
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Join Michele Celebrating Mouthful’s 25th Anniversary with Stephanie Rastetter! (Aired: November 1, 2020)
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This Week, An Archive Interview with Anne Zimmerman, Author of “An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of MFK Fisher” (Aired: July 19, 2020)
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Mouthful Celebrates MFK Fisher with Filmmaker Gregory Bazat and Susie Allen (Aired: July 12, 2020)
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Carrie Brown Reflects on Nearly Thirty Years of Running the Jimtown Store (Aired: December 22, 2019)
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Deacon Carpenter Returns to Talk About His New Book, “A Little Bit of Ayurveda,” on Mouthful (Aired: November 17, 2019)
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Deacon Carpenter Returns to Talk About His New Book, "A Little Bit of Ayurveda,” on Mouthful (Aired: November 17, 2019)
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Mark Green’s New Book, “Atheopaganism: An Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science” on Mouthful – October 6, 2019
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