Fiction

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Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 10/10/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
From the school of hard knocks to Oregon’s Ducks, Topaz knows what education means. While living on the street, his love of words was expressed through poetry. Now in his junior year at the University of Oregon, studying neuroscience and linguistics, he explores how wor... Read more

Katherine Dunn's new story collection Near Flesh

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Katherine Dunn is one of Portland’s literary giants. Her highly praised and widely read novel Geek Love was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award and was named one of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels”.  Katherine was an inspiration and mentor to many writers h... Read more

Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells

Airs at: Thu, 10/09/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells from Algonquin Books. Leni was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Her work includes the story collection Farewell Navigator, and the novels The Listeners and Red Cloc... Read more

K. IBURA, author, TEMPEST

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
TEMPEST follows Veronique (a.k.a. V) who, after her parents' death in Hurricane Katrina, moved to her MawMaw’s house in the Louisiana countryside. MawMaw always said that Veronique needed to hide her control and power over the wind, but one day, she has to use it to save... Read more

William T. Vollmann on Last Stories and Other Stories (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 09/25/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
This month we’re celebrating William T. Vollmann, one of our greatest American writers. Bill’s prodigious catalog includes novels, story collections, a memoir, non-fiction books, including the multi-volume Rising Up and Rising Down and Carbon Ideologies, and numerous pie... Read more

Summer is Still Here

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Back again with more music and the final chapter to Goldfinger Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 09/26/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
Sallie is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, although she was raised as a military brat away from the South, living in Germany, New Mexico, Ohio, Japan, and Michigan up to age 16. But every summer, she returned with her family to visit her mother's relatives in New Orl... Read more

More Late Summer Listening

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more grown-up music and part 2 of  a BBC Radio adaptation of Goldfinger by Ian Fleming. Toby Stephens stars as James Bond, agent 007, who is investigating a wealthy gold smuggler, Auric Goldfinger played by Sir Ian McKellen. What appears to be an e... Read more

A Feminist Take on Jewish Folktales

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Our In Depth guests today are Gail Pasternack and Debra Zaslow, two of the editors for the new anthology The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones, and Powerful Prophetesses, from Monkfish Press. Gai... Read more

Corbin C and Gwen Callahan

Airs at: Thu, 09/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been entertaining horror and science fiction fans at the Hollywood Theatre for 30 years now, half of those with the help of Co-Director Gwen Callahan.  The festival has also been nurturing and promoting the independent arts scene i... Read more