Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a poet, essayist , and master of fantasy
and speculative fiction. In this interview recorded in 2000, she talks about
her start as a writer and the creation of several of her greatest works.
Hosted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolins...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Cohen, author of the novel The Glamshack,
Paul's first book and the first publication from independent press 7.13
Books. The novel was nominated for a Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award,
and was included in the “Most Anticipated Small Press Bo...
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“Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to
an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this
book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists
from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi,...
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"In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for
unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry
of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of
non-intersectional understandings of identity a...
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Portland author Chuck Palahniuk is the most restless of literary lions,
reinventing himself with each book, alternately dazzling and bedeviling his
readership. With Legacy, his latest coloring book / novella hybrid,
Palahniuk dives further into visual storytelling, crea...
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In Leni Zumas' Red Clocks, abortion is once again illegal in America,
in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights
of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing
town, five very different women navigate these new...
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Dennise M. Kowalczyk sits down with Rex Burkholder to discuss his book,
The Activist's ToolKit. Trained as a biologist, Rex Burkholder has worked
as a science teacher; he is a founder and policy director of the Bicycle
Transportation Alliance. Currently, he is leading t...
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Dennise Kowalczyk talks to author Deborah Reed about her new novel THE
DAYS WHEN BIRDS COME BACK
June is undoubtedly in transition. Reeling from her divorce, trying to stay
sober, and faced with a completely stalled career, she’s recently returned
to the beautiful Ore...
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“What a memorable, companionable, and singular book. I can’t think of
another contemporary memoir that has this mix of political and literary
intelligence, all embedded in a personal story that is told with great
candor, historical consciousness, and wit. How I wish it h...
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