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 boyf...
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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
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Lauren’s an award winning comedic actress, playwright, and author. She’s
written and performed nine solo plays, inclu...
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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 -- ami...
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On tonight’s show, we consider the question “Florida?” This is the
state that brought us such natural and unnatural disasters as hurricanes,
shark attacks, pythons, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Katherine Harris, George
Zimmerman, FSU "student" athletes, hanging chads, and early-b...
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The sitcom Hello, Larry, which ran two forgettable seasons on NBC starting in
1979, featured McLean Stevenson as a radio talk show host and single dad
raising two teenage daughters in Portland, Oregon. The show was voted one of
the worst of all time by TV Guide. Number 12 t...
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On tonight's show, we salute the holiday season, which officially started the
day after Thanksgiving and stretches over the entire month of December into
Christmas and New Years. And. for some of us, all the way to Carl Crowley’s
birthday on January 6th. To celebrate, we’ll...
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Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of 10 novels, 4
collections of short fiction, a memoir, 6 works of non-fiction (including the
7-volume treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down), and numerous
articles. His latest work is The Dying Grass: A Novel ...
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On tonight's show, we're throwing in the towel on radio. It's a legacy
medium, at least that's what Carl Crowley keeps telling me. People don't
listen to the radio anymore, Carl says. They're too busy watching movies,
esp. those new-fangled talkies.
But given that we're a...
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It seems there’s been nothing but bad news in America lately. The death of
Sandra Bland in a Texas jail, the House passing a bill that prohibits the
labeling of GMO foods. However, what most of us consider bad news can, for a
select few, be the stuff dreams are made of.
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