Fiction

Dave Cooper

Airs at: Thu, 11/14/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Dave Cooper is a comics artist, animator, and oil painter whose graphic novels and monographs have included admiring introductions from the likes of comedian David Cross and filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and David Cronenberg. His paintings and drawings have found homes ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 18, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Palestine Exception: After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As stud... Read more

Palestinian Novel

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
What role might be played in political struggle by cultural creations? A new novel, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, raises this question doubly: both as a novel set in current struggles and in the story it recounts about the contested effort to mount a theatre production in... Read more

Pioneering Portland indie filmmaker Penny Allen

Airs at: Thu, 11/14/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Penny Allen, author of the new novel This Rescue Thing. Penny is best known as a filmmaker, whose roots as a Portland activist led to her writing, directing, and producing her first two features: Property, a Sundance Festival prize winner, in ... Read more

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A NOVEL, by Sidney Morrison

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
     Author Sidney Morrison joins us to discuss his book, Frederick Douglass:  a Novel, about the man considered the most prominent African American of the 19th century.  Frederick Douglass was instrumental in ending the institution of slavery from which he escaped to becom... Read more

Previewing the 2024 Portland Book Festival with Amanda Bullock

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
The annual Portland Book Festival is our city’s biggest literary event, and one of the most popular on the entire West Coast. This year’s festival takes place Saturday, November 2nd, just a few days away, and features on-stage discussions with over 80 authors, pop-up readin... Read more

Sampler Halloween Special

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Today we bring back a favorite Halloween show featuring two chilling stories and some halloween themed music. First, KBOO's own Emily Young reads Night by Ray Bradbury. Also Katherine Dunn returns to present one of our favorite stories The Cat Man. Read more

Vera Brosgol: from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 10/24/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In the leadup to the 2024 Portland Book Festival, we revisit our January 2011 conversation with comics artist and animator Vera Brosgol. Vera drew on her own immigrant childhood for inspiration in creating the character of Anya, the haunted teenager at the heart of her d... Read more

Michael Keefe, author of All Her Loved Ones, Encoded

Airs at: Thu, 10/24/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Michael Keefe, author of the new novel All Her Loved Ones, Encoded from Running Wild Press. Michael’s short fiction has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Thin Air Magazine, Summerset Review, among other journals. He’s also the Events Coordinato... Read more