Fiction

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Gigi Little, author of the debut novel Who Killed One the Gun?

Airs at: Thu, 10/23/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Gigi Little, author of the debut novel Who Killed One the Gun? from Forest Avenue Press. I first interviewed Gigi nine years ago for an anthology she edited City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales. Since then, I’ve talked with Gigi fo... Read more

More Orson Welles as Harry Lime

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Today's radio adventure is set during World War II. As the Nazis fire V2 Rockets at the People of London, Corporal Harry Lime of the US Army is sent on a secret mission to Istanbul to acquire the location of a hidden Nazi Rocket Factory. As events unfold, the only way Ha... Read more

Two Tales of Demonic Terror

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/21/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
For the End Of Summer Season,  Fortunato presents two classic radio horror dramas produced and directed by William N. Robeson. First, an adaptation of  a short story by Montague R. James, Casting The Runes. A medieval scholar believes his life is endangered by a devil wo... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 10/10/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for Once Upon a Time
From the school of hard knocks to Oregon’s Ducks, Topaz knows what education means. While living on the street, his love of words was expressed through poetry. Now in his junior year at the University of Oregon, studying neuroscience and linguistics, he explores how wor... Read more

Katherine Dunn's new story collection Near Flesh

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
Katherine Dunn is one of Portland’s literary giants. Her highly praised and widely read novel Geek Love was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award and was named one of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels”.  Katherine was an inspiration and mentor to many writers h... Read more

Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells

Airs at: Thu, 10/09/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells from Algonquin Books. Leni was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Her work includes the story collection Farewell Navigator, and the novels The Listeners and Red Cloc... Read more

K. IBURA, author, TEMPEST

Airs at: Thu, 10/02/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
TEMPEST follows Veronique (a.k.a. V) who, after her parents' death in Hurricane Katrina, moved to her MawMaw’s house in the Louisiana countryside. MawMaw always said that Veronique needed to hide her control and power over the wind, but one day, she has to use it to save... Read more

William T. Vollmann on Last Stories and Other Stories (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 09/25/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Jonesy
This month we’re celebrating William T. Vollmann, one of our greatest American writers. Bill’s prodigious catalog includes novels, story collections, a memoir, non-fiction books, including the multi-volume Rising Up and Rising Down and Carbon Ideologies, and numerous pie... Read more

Summer is Still Here

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Back again with more music and the final chapter to Goldfinger Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 09/26/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for Once Upon a Time
Sallie is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, although she was raised as a military brat away from the South, living in Germany, New Mexico, Ohio, Japan, and Michigan up to age 16. But every summer, she returned with her family to visit her mother's relatives in New Orl... Read more