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A Novel Idea

Non-fiction to pulp fiction, host Suzanne M. Lang explores the world of books featuring conversations with writers, academics, and readers. We all have a story to tell. It’s A Novel Idea.

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Dale Tafoya and Mark Shrager join Suzanne on A Novel...

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2023/05/07

Baseball and horseracing are two sports that have been with us since before the Civil War and we still enjoy them in one way or another today. Suzanne Lang is joined by sportswriter Dale Tafoya to talk aboutBilly Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A’s. Then, it's prolific turfwriter Mark Shrager with his bookThe First Kentucky Derby: Thirteen Black Jockeys, One Shady Owner, and the Little Red Horse that Wasn’t Supposed to Win. A Novel Idea airs every first and fifth Sundayat

Beth Ann Mathews and Skye Blaine on A Novel Idea...

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2023/04/27

Suzanne M. Lang is joined by Beth Ann Mathews, Marine biologist and author ofDeep Waters, A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled. When her active and energetic husband suffers a rare type of stroke, his idea of recovery -through sailing in the ocean waters off Alaska- challenges Beth’s notions of sense and safety. Her story is frank, intimate, and filled with an honesty and verve that are gripping. Also featured in conversation with Suzanne is award winning author Skye Blaine who

Author Joan Frank on A Novel Idea (Aired: April 2, 2023)

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2023/03/30

Joan Frank is simply a master of language and expression, and she has two new books to prove it: a novel,Juniper Street, and a book of essays,Late Work, a Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading. Joan joins Suzanne Lang in a freewheeling conversation on her work and the writer’s life. It's A Novel Idea every first and fifth Sunday at10am on KRCB 104.9. Click the icon below to listen.

Donnaldson Brown and Samuel W. Gailey on A Novel Idea...

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2023/03/04

Absorbing literary fiction comes from Donnaldson Brown with her decades spanning epic novelBecause I Loved Youand Samuel W. Gailey withCome Away from Her,his bold mystery set in the cold of Eastern Pennsylvania. Both authors are in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang on A Novel Idea, heard first and fifth Sundaysat 10:00 am PT on KRCB 104.9 Sonoma County's NPR station. Click the icon below to listen.

Candi Milo and Loren Niemi on A Novel Idea (Aired:...

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2023/02/04

Actor, singer, and Warner Brothers voice artist for many animated characters, Candi Milo, tells the story of her unusual upbringing in her memoirSurviving the Odd. Her father was entertainer Tony Milo, and when he gave up show business to run a half-way house for mentally ill and emotionally disturbed adults and bring his family into the house, the course of her childhood was changed forever. The book is funny, irreverent, and heartbreaking. Candi joins Suzanne Lang in conversation. Also featured

Marylee MacDonald and Elisa Stancil Levine on A Novel...

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2023/01/27

What happens in our youth ripples through our entire lives. Authors Marylee MacDonald and Elisa Stancil Levine join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on their memoirs of resilience and courage. MacDonald’sSurrender, a Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Loveexplores the double circumstance of her being adopted as an infant and then her giving up her first child to adoption; she eventually reunites with both her birth mother and her son. Stancil Levine’sThis or Something Better, a Memoir of

Shugri Salh and Hemu Aggarwal on A Novel Idea (Aired:...

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2023/01/01

Shugri Salh was born in the Somalia desert and lived with her grandmother as a desert nomad herding goats before landing in an orphanage and the streets of Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War, and eventually making her way to North America.The Last Nomad, Coming of Age in the Somali Desertis her eye-opening memoir, and she joins Suzanne Lang in conversation. Also featured is Hemu Aggarwal with her bookThe Forbidden Letters, a True Story.Hemu is an artist and graphic designer whose discovery of

Brennan Matthews and Brad Herzog on A Novel Idea...

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2022/12/05

Road trips seem to be uniquely American and Suzanne Lang talks with two authors about their unique takes on traveling the country.Miles to Go, an African Family in Search of America Along Route 66is Brennen Matthews’ travelogue of his family’s emersion into America on its “Mother Road." Brad Herzog goes a different direction withDetour 2020, a Cross-country Drive through America’s Wrong Turns, trying to get a bead on just what that year brought to us. It’s A Novel Idea, first and fifth

Lissa Bachner and Amy Turner on A Novel Idea (Aired:...

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2022/11/04

Suzanne Lang talks with equestrian Lissa Bachner. When Lissa became blind, it was the healing partnership with her horse Milo that physically guided her to become a show jumping champion and emotionally provided Lissa the love and confidence she needed to define herself outside of blindness. The book isMilo’s Eyes, How a Blind Equestrian and Her Seeing Eye Horse Rescued Each Other. Suzanne also talks with Amy Turner about her memoirOn the Ledge.Nearly being killed when a truck ran over her while

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