Fiction

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The Long Con

Airs at: Thu, 08/09/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Comics conventions are hotbeds of community-building for all flavors of fandom.  But in The Long Con, an apocalyptic event turns convention-goers into an unlikely band of survivors.  Co-writer Ben Coleman and illustrator Emilee Denich join us and share the true-life tale... Read more

"The Best Books I Ever Read," Patricia Heard Hopson

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Patricia Heard Hopson, retired Portland Public Schools librarian discusses favorite books with Emma Jackson Ford.   Read more

Women in Sunlight: A Novel by Frances Mayes

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Dennise Kowalczyk interviews author, Frances Mayes, about her life in Italy and her new novel, Women in Sunlight. Frances Mayes is best known for her poetry and her book, Under the Tuscan Sun, that she wrote two decades ago. She now splits her time between North Carolina... Read more

Certain American States

Airs at: Thu, 08/16/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  One of Granta’s Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking—and failing to find—the extr... Read more

Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "I feel like I can't tell one story about a giant mustard penis because it's not about a mustard penis only, but about all of these incidents together, in context, and through time." So begins the title story in Renee Simms's debut short story collection, Meet Behind Mar... Read more

Air Traffic by Greogory Pardlo

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the fam... Read more

Evolution, Climate Change, Denial & Beliefs

Airs at: Tue, 07/17/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with Michael Zimmerman and Barbara Kingsolver. In the first part of today’s show, you will hear an interview that first aired in February 2012 with Michael Zimmerman, the founder of the Clergy Lette... Read more

Olli Hoopnoodle's Haven of Bliss by Jean Shepherd

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/17/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
 The author of  "A Christmas Story", Jean Shepherd, returns with a humorous narrative about his family's annual summer trip to Clear Lake.  Read more

Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know

Airs at: Mon, 07/16/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  From Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time to Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu, Afrofuturism is gaining popularity. Filmmaker and author Ytasha Womack more defines Afrofuturism as "the intersection between black culture, technology, liberation and the imagination, with some ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for July 9,2018

Airs at: Mon, 07/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Denise Morris, this edition of the Old Mole features: 1. Bill Resnick talking with Chicago DSA activist Joanna Misnick about Democratic Socialists and elections; 2. Frann Michele commenting on a Supreme Court decision undermining access to reproductive services; ... Read more