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Old Mole Variety Hour for March 7, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The New Cold War: Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the U.S. led NATO has been advancing toward Russia by adding new countries, including Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turke... Read more

Indigenous Futurisms

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In recognition of Women's History Month, Jan Haaken talks with Grace Dillon about history and emancipatory visions of the future.  Dillon is Professor of Indigenous Nations at Portland State University and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms, paying homage to Afrofuturi... Read more

BEDLAM: The Life & Mind of Earl Sedgwick

Airs at: Thu, 03/03/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
     Bedlam:  The Life & Mind of Earl Sedgwick details the frustrating life of Earl Sedgwick, owner and operator of a mental institution. Earl grew up in the business and subsequently took it over despite his avowed hatred of how the business robbed him of his childhood.... Read more

The Firesign Theatre "Live at the Magic Mushroom", Part 1

Airs at: Thu, 02/24/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome David Ossman and Philip Proctor of the legendary comedy group the Firesign Theatre, and Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen to talk about their latest release “The Firesign Theatre Live at the Magic Mushroom". And we are truly in three places ... Read more

South of the Slot by Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Fortunato reads a short story set in San Francisco in the days before the great 1906 earthquake, "South of the Slot" by america's greatest writer Jack London. UC Berkeley sociology professor Freddie Drummon has published a number of well receaved books about con... Read more

Elizabeth McCracken, from Boston to Austin

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction a... Read more

Stacy Brewster, author of What We Pick Up

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we welcome Stacy Brewster, author of the new story collection What We Pick Up, from Portland’s Buckman Publishing.   Stacy is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter based here in Portland. Born in Los Angeles and raised both there and in the San Francis... Read more

Maus author Art Spiegelman

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with Spiegelman. Included in this episode are excerp... Read more

16 - Raising Hell with Robin Vidgeon

Airs at: Fri, 03/18/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  Tune in for episode 16 as Poxy & Ragan interview legendary cinematographer, Robin Vidgeon, whose work with Director, Clive Barker, culminated in the horror classics Hellraiser and Nightbreed. An honorary member of the British Society of Cinematographers and winner of ... Read more

The Last House on the Street

Airs at: Mon, 02/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Mystery writer Diane Chamberlain combines her love of mystery writing with her concern for voter registration in her most recent novel, The Last House on the Street. Larry Bowlden reviews the 2021 novel about how the lives of two women converge in a story about voter reg... Read more