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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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Parisa Akhbari, Naomi Ko, Cade Palmer, Maxine...

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2024/02/02

Poetry communicates, teaches, and binds us together. Parisa Akhbari (@authorparisa) a mental health therapist and writer from Seattle, Washington joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on her YA novel, Just Another Epic Love Poem, which follows two queer best friends in Catholic school as they fall in love through the pages of a never-ending poem they’ve been writing back and forth for five years. Also featured are Youth Poet Ambassadors from the Marin Poetry Center, Naomi Ko and Cade Palmer along

Marilyn Dear Nelson and her husband Chris Nelson on A...

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2024/01/19

When Marilyn Dear Nelson and her husband Chris Nelson started digging into her ancestry and the life of great grandfather, JW Dear, they discovered a sweeping story of grit, courage, brutality, and friendship. The resulting book is RED CLOUD AND THE INDIAN TRADER, THE REMARKABLE FRIENDSHIP OF THE SIOUX CHIEF AND JW DEAR IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE FRONTIER. The Nelsons join Suzanne Lang in conversation Sunday, January 21stat 10 am PDT. Streaming and podcasting atkrcb.org. Click the icon below to

C.J. Cook joins Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea (Aired:...

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2024/01/10

The South Pacific has inspired artists and writers since the 19thcentury and Ralph Burke Tyree was among them. Historian and art collector C.J. Cook has produced two definitive works on the artist —Tyree, Artist of the South Pacific,whichhas won awards for it’s stunning cover art and as a biography of Tyree; and now,Beauty in the Beast, Flora, Fauna, and Endangered Species of Artist Ralph Burke Tyree(with Paige Herbert). CJ Cook joins Suzanne Lang in conversation onA Novel Idea. Click the

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Mojgan Ghazirad on A Novel...

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2023/12/29

On this encore presentation, story and story-tellers are the link to and legacy of our cultural roots and identity.SuzanneLangtalks withMegan Kamalei Kakimoto on her wrenching and sensational story collection, Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, which follows native Hawaiians through a contemporary landscape filled with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. Suzannealso talks with Mojgan Ghazirad on her autobiographical coming of age novel,The House on Sun Street, set largely in Tehran

Brian H. Williams and Jody Gelb on A Novel Idea...

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2023/12/15

Suzanne Lang talks with Brian H. Williams - trauma surgeon, policy advisor, and current candidate for US Congress, who brings us his intense and eye-opening revelations inThe Bodies Keep Coming, Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Then, Jody Gelb, actress, Mother, and author talks with Suzanne about Gelb’s “micro-memoir,”She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy, an impressionistic portrayal of Jody’s life with her family, her career, and daughter

Shelley Blanton-Stroud and Bob Burnett on A Novel...

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2023/11/30

Sometimes authors use conventional forms of fiction to explore larger issues of history, gender, love, and success.Called the “Raymond Chandler for feminists”, Shelley Blanton-Stroud delivers the third installment of her novels featuring columnist Jane Benjamin, which includeCopy Boy,Tom Boy, and nowPoster Girl,and she joins Suzanne Lang in conversation. Suzanne also talks with mystery writer Bob Burnett about the first in a series featuring US Marshal Kate Swift inDeath is Potentail. Click

Eliot Pattison on A Novel Idea (Aired: November 19,...

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2023/11/17

Eliot Pattison is the author of gritty mysteries set in the historic past and joins Suzanne Lang for an hour of conversation. His latest novel isFreedoms’s Ghost, a Mystery of the American Revolution,a recent installment into his Bone Rattler series, set in the pre-Revolutionary War Colonial America. Also featured is a 2019 segment with Eliot discussing the tenth and last installment of his “Inspector Shan” series set in Tibet,Bones of the Earth. Eliot Pattison and Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea,

Julia Bricklin and Carolyn Hays on A Novel Idea...

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2023/11/03

Award winning writer and historian Julia Bricklin joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her most recent bookRed Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist, the story of Hannah Weinstein, a left leaning activist who fled to Europe during the McCarthy era, and established Sapphire Films. With little background, she began producing successful television shows, all the while surreptitiously employing blacklisted American writers to provide the scripts. Also featured is the bookA Girlhood: Letter to my

Esmeralda Santiago and Corky Parker on A Novel Idea...

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2023/10/26

Esmeralda Santiago, a prolific Puerto Rican author of a series of memoirs, along with nonfiction works, and works for young people joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her life, Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and her latest novelLas Madres. Corky Parker, with roots in Public Radio and a successful career with her own media company, buys a small inn on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, and nearly twenty-five years later tells us about her experiences inla Finca -Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Mojgan Ghazirad on A Novel...

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2023/10/13

Story and story-tellers are the link to and legacy of our cultural roots and identity.SuzanneLangtalks withMegan Kamalei Kakimoto on her wrenching and sensational story collection, Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, which follows native Hawaiians through a contemporary landscape filled with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. Suzannealso talks with Mojgan Ghazirad on her autobiographical coming of age novel,The House on Sun Street, set largely in Tehran during the concussive period of

Frances Rivetti, Samantha Downing, and A.J. Wich on A...

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2023/09/29

Writers at different stages and phases of their craft. Suzanne Lang features three novelists at varying stages in their craft. Longtime journalist and South County Notebook columnist for the Petaluma Argus-Courier, Frances Rivetti talks of moving from nonfiction to fiction, as she writes of place. Internationally best-selling author Samantha Downing talks ofher latest, a thriller with snark,A Twisted Love Story. Her debut novel wasMy Lovely Wife, characterized as ”Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs

Laura Maylene Walter and Ivy Anderson & Devon Angus...

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2023/09/14

Marked Women is the focus this time on A Novel Idea. First, Suzanne Lang talks with Laura Maylene Walter on her award-winning novelBody of Stars. Then, it's a conversation with historians Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus on their nonfiction work,Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute. It’s A Novel Idea, airing every first, third, and fifth Sunday at 10:00 am PT. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. Click the icon below to listen.

Maddalena Bearzi and Greg Sarris on A Novel Idea...

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2023/09/01

Marine mammal researcher and co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society, Maddalena Bearzi, like many of us, had her work curtailed during the initial shutdown period of the pandemic. But her habit is to observe, and her world did not get smaller, as she found a universe of life right in her own backyard. Her book isStranded, Finding Nature in Uncertain Timesand she joins Suzanne Lang in conversation. Also featured is Greg Sarris, author and Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton

Daniel Stashower on A Novel Idea (Aired: August 20,...

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2023/08/18

True crime and bestselling author Daniel Stashower’sAmerican Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripperprobes the depression era search for the “torso murderer” who left a wake of dismembered bodies in Cleveland Ohio, while also revealing the post-Untouchables life and career of Eliot Ness in his role as Cleveland’s Public Safety Director. Stashower joins Suzanne Lang in conversation! A Novel Idea airs the first, third, and fifth Sundays of each monthat 10:00 am PT. Streaming

Andy Dolich and Dale Tafoya on A Novel Idea (Aired:...

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2023/08/03

A tale of two cities. Suzanne Lang talks with sports executive and author Andy Dolich, who along with journalist Dave Newhouse, authored the book Goodbye Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town’s Fight for Survival about the history of professional teams in Oakland California and their sometimes heartbreaking departures from the city and the fans. Also featured is sportswriter Dale Tafoya with his book of triumph and civic pride & perseverance, One Season in Rocket City: How the 1985

Chuck Collins and Katrin Ciaffa on A Novel Idea...

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2023/07/28

Long time activist for economic and environmental justice, Chuck Collins, brings us his provocative novel of the near future,Altar to an Erupting Sun,which opens with a woman strapping a bomb to herself to blow up an oil executive. Also featured is Hannelore Krollpfeiffer’s book,We Lived in Berlin, a Story about the End of the War,finally translated into English from the original German by our guest Katrin Ciaffa. It is an undistorted look at the realities of two young women during the final

Ginny Kubitz Moyer and Robert McKean on A Novel Idea...

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2023/07/13

Suzanne Lang talks with novelists Ginny Kubitz Moyer on her historical novel,The Seeing Garden,set in 1910 on the San Francisco Peninsula. Also on the program, Robert McKean, whose novelMending What is Brokenis mad-capped, funny, and heartfelt. It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, July 16that 10 am PT. Click the icon below to listen.

Christy Warren and Susan Farren on A Novel Idea...

A Novel Idea ·

2023/06/29

Fire Captain Christy Warren was born to deal with crisis situations and rescuing others. She was tough and decisive under pressure, but when she started experiencing uncontrollable emotional distress, she turned on herself in self-destructive ways and struggled for her own survival. Christy tells her story inFlash Point, a Firefighters Journey through PTSD. We also feature Susan Farren, founder and Executive Director of First Responders Resiliency, Inc., an organization that takes a proactive and

Tina Davidson and Francesco Lecce-Chong on A Novel...

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2023/06/16

Tina Davidson is a composer whose music is autobiographical, so her memoir is of course, musical. Suzanne Lang talks with composer Tina Davidson, on her life, work, and memoir:Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music from a Classical Composer. Also featured is Francesco Lecce-Chong, Conductor and Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Eugene Symphony orchestras and impetus behind the First Symphony Project. A Novel Idea airs on the first, third, and fifth Sundays on KRCB

Mary Jo McConahay and Kate McElwee on A Novel Idea...

A Novel Idea ·

2023/06/02

Suzanne Lang talks with prize-winning journalist Mary Jo McConahay on her bookPlaying God, American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right, which reveals the big money, unholy alliances, and far right agendas held by a faction of American Catholic Bishops. Suzanne also talks with Kate McElwee, Executive Director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, agrassroots-driven movement that promotes activism and dialogue to call for women's ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church. It’s

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