As most scientists will tell you, climate change is a known threat to the
environment, and all species of plant and animal life on earth. But it might
be even worse than anticipated, according to Dr. Guy McPherson, an ecologist
and evolutionary biologist, who coined the ...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Oregon-based author and indie publisher, Dan
Armstrong. Dan will be appearing at the 8th Annual NW Book Festival, this
Saturday in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Dan gives us a preview of the festival, and talks about the nuts and bolts of...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Grant Bywaters about his debut mystery novel The
Red Storm.
The Red Storm won the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel
Competition, and tells the story of a black heavyweight boxer turned private
investigator in 1930’s New Orleans. T...
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Hey, all you fans of KBOO's now defunct Puppet Radio Theater. On tonight's
Holy Crowley Hour, or Two, the puppets return!
The puppets will be hijacking... uh filling in for regular host Ken Jones,
while he travels the globe looking for new members of the Carl Crowley cult...
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Legendary Portland writer Katherine Dunn died last week at the age of 70.
Dunn is perhaps best known for her novel Geek Love, a finalist for the
National Book Award in 1989. Geek Love's main character, Olympia Binewski,
works at a radio station not unlike KBOO Community R...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Dmae Roberts, author of the new book The Letting Go
Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family.
The book takes the form of a series of personal essays, in which Dmae writes
about her biracial identity as the child of a Taiwanese mother and white ...
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Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last
seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She
abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears
the news and, against the wishes of her b...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Lauren Weedman, author of the new book of essays
Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All, From Someone Who Is Not
Okay.
Lauren’s an award winning comedic actress, playwright, and author. She’s
written and performed nine solo plays, in...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Stephanie Storey, author of the new book Oil and
Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo. The novel depicts the fierce
rivalry between these two great artists as they struggle to complete their
masterworks -- the Mona Lisa and the David -- ...
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