Fiction

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"Women's" Fiction

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Distributors like Amazon have a genre called women’s fiction (used to be called romance), and it is obvious they treat this as light reading.  According to our Book Mole, Larry Bowlden, so-called women’s fiction (including many romance novels) are often excellent at describ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 26, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole and presents these pieces: Bill Resnick interviews Phyllis Bennis about U.S. entanglements with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia, and the proxy wars in the Middle East. Author of eleven books, including the recent Understan... Read more

Exeunt Portlandia

Airs at: Thu, 03/22/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  To commemorate the final season of Portlandia, IFC's love/hate letter to Portland, we welcome three of the show's guiding talents.  Emmy-nominated series producer David Cress has been a creative force in Portland for over twenty years and has helped promote Oregon as a d... Read more

Creating the Isle of Dogs - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Fri, 03/16/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Portland animator Paul Harrod, we hear more about his adventures working with filmmaker Wes Anderson, as well as the likes of Lily Tomlin, Eddie Murphy, and Larry Wilmore. During a recent trip to the Burning Man arts festival, Paul answ... Read more

Music and Poetry of the Kesh – A Celebration

Airs at: Fri, 03/30/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Randomonium
The groundbreaking novel by dearly departed genius author Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home, was released in 1985 with a cassette of Music and Poetry of the Kesh, composed by Todd Barton . That cassette is now being released on vinyl by Freedom To Spend. Hosts Moe Bows... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Philip Kenney

Airs at: Mon, 03/12/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
If you’re a writer, or an artist, or composer. Or really anyone doing something creative, you might have been filled at one time with self doubt. It’s very common for even the most successful artists to feel they’re just not good enough. And this can hamper their creativity... Read more

How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money by Panio Gianopoulos

Airs at: Thu, 03/22/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money. Panio’s stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn Ra... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Suzy Vitello

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Suzy Vitello is the coordinator, and one of the founders, of a long-running writing workshop that has its roots in Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writing seminar. Suzy’s workshop colleagues include a who’s who of authors, including Chuck Palahniuk, Cheryl Strayed, Chelsea Cain, ... Read more

Creating the Isle of Dogs

Airs at: Fri, 03/16/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland animator Paul Harrod has built sets for Pee-Wee's Playhouse, sculpted California Raisins for Will Vinton, and directed episodes of the breakthrough animated TV series The PJs. During a recent trip to the Burning Man arts festival, Paul answered a call from film... Read more

Gail Noonan, the Laughing Feminist - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with animator Gail Noonan, S.W. Conser asks about the early artistic adventures with the Winnipeg Film Group that helped spark Gail's four-decade-long career in the world of Canadian independent film and led to her recent retrospective at Po... Read more