Host Crystal Leighty interviews former New York Times restaurant critic Frank
Bruni about his memoir, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious
Appetite. What many didn’t know about Frank was his history as a
compulsive eater – he made the most unlikely of foo...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his memoir,
LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. In
the book Williams describes how he managed to juggle two disparate
lifestyles--"keeping it real" in his friends' eyes an...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Laurie Notaro, author of Spooky Little Girl, a
funny novel about a woman whose life changes after she is killed by a bus.
Laurie Notaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
She packed her bags for Eugene, Oregon, once s...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Pacific Northwest writer Diane Hammond, author
of Going to Bend, Homesick Creek, and Hannah's Dream. She talks about her
latest book Seeing Stars, a novel about child actors in Hollywood with talent
managers, agents, coaches, directors and teach...
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews award-winning writer Justin Cronin, author
of "The Passage", which describes a world where civilization is swiftly
crumbling into a primal landscape of predators and prey and two people flee
in search of sanctuary.
Born in New England, Ju...
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Host Bruce Silverman speaks with Roberta Gratz, author of "The Battle for
Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs." Urban critic
and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that New York City regenerated
itself because of the waning power of Robert Mo...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Jimmy McDonough, author of Tammy
Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, a biography of the country music diva.
Jimmy McDonough’s biography of Neil Young, Shakey, was a critically
acclaimed New York Times bestseller. He has also written biographies of
R...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Greg Bear about his book, "Mariposa," a science
fiction novel of a crumbling America, broke and controlled by corporations.
Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and
fantasy, including BLOOD MUSIC, THE FORGE OF GOD...
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Allison Milionis speaks with Zach Dundas, a Portland freelance journalist. He
worked as a reporter at the Missoula Independent and the Willamette Week. He
has written for Good Magazine, the Associated Press, Maxim, Metropolis,
Portland Monthly and a strange and mismatched v...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside, a
historical novel set during World War I. It features Charlie Chaplin and Rin
Tin Tin. Glen David Gold is the author of the best seller Carter Beats the
Devil.
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