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Shary Flenniken - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Shary Flenniken is one of the most influential figures in the history of underground comics.  Her comic Trots & Bonnie burst onto the pages of the National Lampoon in the early 1970's, and with its mix of radical politics, coy sexuality, absurd situations, approachable ... Read more

Ep 107. It Takes A Village To Wear Bivy Park

Airs at: Fri, 05/01/2020 at 12:15pm - Sun, 05/31/2020 at 1:15pm
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
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Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Adam Levin, author of the new novel Bubblegum, from Doubleday. Adam’s work includes the novel The Instructions and the story collection Hot Pink. He's been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endow... Read more

Wild Life

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Molly Gloss’s novel Wild Life, the story of a writer of women’s adventure stories who becomes lost in the woods, and who survives only with the aid of a family of human-like creatures. It is also a book about writing and especially women’s wr... Read more

Another World is Possible

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
With this segment we inaugurate a new feature. In the first installment, Norm discusses some of the questions that arise in thinking about social and economic alternatives and how utopian and dystopian literature illuminate these. As illustration, Patricia Kullberg reads fr... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 11, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today’s Old Mole is hosted by Norm Diamond. Norm starts things off with a personal credo about what the Mole stands for. The show continues with the following segments:   Another World Is Possible: With this segment we inaugurate a new feature. In the first installment, N... Read more

Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas on Take Us To A Better Place

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas, contributors to the story anthology Take Us To A Better Place, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. You can download a free copy of the ebook at https://www.rwjf.org/fiction. Hannah Lillith Assadi... Read more

Trans in the News and Poet Kara K Morgan

Airs at: Wed, 05/06/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive on Wednesday, May 6th at 6pm on KBOO. Our program this week includes Trans in the news with Nicolette and Jean.  We will be talking about recent attacks on trans rights in England where efforts are underway to prevent transgender kids from h... Read more

Trans Health Care Workers on the Front Lines and Covid 19 Updates

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive on Tuesday, April 21stat 6pm on KBOO.  Our program this week includes a discussion about how COVID 19 is affecting the Trans and Non-Binary community and an interview with Eva, Hayes, Nicolette, Emma and Nico.  Eva is an ICu Nurse and will s... Read more

SoundMachine

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair. Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, she trains her relentless attention ... Read more