After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train,
which crashes on the way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is
misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in
the accident. The Harkness Family, having never ...
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Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want, graces Between the Covers with an
interview on her new novel Flight, a poignant inquiry on social class, love,
and family.
Lily King calls Flight "arresting and powerful".
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Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation
industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame
with pencil and paper. Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Today’s episode is a sad one for me. It’s the last interview with one of
my favorite authors and guests – Cai Emmons.
I first met Cai in October 2018 when she came to the KBOO studios for a live,
in-person interview on her novel Weather Woman. Due to the pandemic, our
subs...
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Unfortunate production problems has postponed the return of Jack Webb for
this week's show. Will be re airing a program from January of 2021 which
features a episode of the Superman radio show from the mid 1940's. And lots
of music.
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It’s Thursday, December 22nd, just two eves away from Christmas Eve, and
we’ve been in somewhat of a quandary as to how to celebrate on today’s
show. I think the classic story for this time of year is Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol, first published on December 19th 1843...
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Tonight's edition of Talking Earth is the inaugural edition of Book Stab,
where host Patrick Bocarde discusses the merits and mostly demerits of novels
and poetry with guests. Tonight's guest is Ceylon Anderson. Mr Anderson
was co-producer and co-writer of The Worriers, a...
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Once again we present Katherine Dunn reading excerpts from The Father
Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien. From the mid 1920s to the start of World
War 2 Proffessor Tolkien would write letters as Santa Claus for his children
would find on Christmas morning. Over the years t...
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Sue Miller is a novelist of the interior life, especially of relationships
and what drives them. Novels of ideas and feelings rather than of dramatic
events. Often harshly self-judging, there is such emotional honesty in her
novels that they sizzle and burn. In this tribute...
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It's KBOO's end-of-year pledge drive and the first person who pledges $250 to
KBOO during our show on Monday, December 19, will receive the gift of a
reversible felted and beaded purple shawl, handmade from a mix of merino wool
and silk by Fiber Mole Desiree Hellegers. T...
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