Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Jane
Smiley. Her best seller A Thousand Acres was made into a movie by the same
name. In her latest novel, Ten Days in the Hills, a group of family, friends,
lovers, former lovers and future lovers gathers ...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Jane
Smiley. Her best seller A Thousand Acres was made into a movie by the same
name. In her latest novel, Ten Days in the Hills,
a group of family, friends, lovers, former lovers and future lovers
gathers i...
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Marianne Barisonek speaks with Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni about her new novel, The Palace of Illusions, which recasts the
Indian epic Mahabharata from the perspective of Princess Panchaali and offers
a
vivid and inventive companion to the renowned poem.
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KBOO producer Lisa Loving speaks with author and essayist Alexandra Fuller
about oil drilling in the Wyoming wilderness, and the war-like impact the
Haliburton Corporation's drilling rigs have on local communities. Fuller's
newest work of nonfiction is "The Legend of Colton...
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A special featuring a recent reading by noted Portland author Ursula K. La
Guin. She reads from her new novel, Lavinia, which is based on a secondary
character mentioned briefly in Virgil's masterpiece, The Aeneid. La Guin
says she thought it was time that Lavinia got to ...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Samantha Hunt author of "The Invention of
Everything Else" a novel about Nikola Tesla, the ecentric Serbian inventor
known for his revolutionary work with electricity and radio.
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" />Producer Lisa Loving interviews award-winning novelist and political
commentator Marc Acito about his newest comic novel, Attack of the Theater
People.
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