A Novel Idea

Barbara L. Baer, publisher of Floreant Press and author of two previous novels joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on her latest book set in the south of India, The Last

Devadasi, where passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste.

Later in the show Suzanne visits with Hilary Moore and members of the Off the Page Readers Theater who will preview pieces from their winter show, What Goes Around. http://media.krcb.org/podcasts/a_novel_idea/A_NOVEL_IDEA_20190106_Baer+OffThePage.mp3

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Love, Hate, & Other Filters is Samira Ahmed’s novel of a young Muslim American woman finding her way through contemporary cultural challenges. Samira is in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang on KRCB’s A Novel Idea. Suzanne also talks with founder and editor of Audiofile Magazine, Robin Whitten.

Love, Hate, & Other Filters is Samira Ahmed’s novel of a young Muslim American woman finding her way through contemporary cultural challenges. Samira is in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang on KRCB’s A Novel Idea. Suzanne also talks with founder and editor of Audiofile Magazine, Robin Whitten.

Love, Hate, & Other Filters is Samira Ahmed’s novel of a young Muslim American woman finding her way through contemporary cultural challenges. Samira is in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang on

KRCB’s A Novel Idea. Suzanne also talks with founder and editor of Audiofile Magazine, Robin Whitten. http://media.krcb.org/podcasts/a_novel_idea/A_Novel_Idea_20181230_Ahmed-Whitten_128k.mp3

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Oil makes the world go round and geologist Thomas E. Cochrane delivers candid and lively remembrances of his life and experience in the American petroleum industry in Tornadoes, Rattlesnakes & Oil, a Wildcatter’s Memories of Hunting for “Black Gold”. Cochrane is a natural born storyteller. Join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with Thomas E. Cochrane on A Novel Idea.

Oil makes the world go round and geologist Thomas E. Cochrane delivers candid and lively remembrances of his life and experience in the American petroleum industry in Tornadoes, Rattlesnakes & Oil, a Wildcatter’s Memories of Hunting for “Black Gold”. Cochrane is a natural born storyteller. Join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with Thomas E. Cochrane on A Novel Idea.

This moment in history, in culture, in our election cycle demands truth and craves heroes. We cover both with Suzanne Lang on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.#Me Too has been building since women thought they’d made some strides in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s , 90’s, and ….whoops!Barbara van Driel, former FBI agent —serving during the initial wave of gender integration, tells a fun, disturbing, and altogether eye-opening view of the FBI during that time that resonates into our current moment in It Never Happened: FBI Negligence and Duplicity Revealed from the Inside Out. Oh, we need some heroes. They CAN be elected. Andrew Shaffer brings Joe Biden and Barack Obama back to us. They continue to serve, but this time as crime solvers and good buddies in Shaffer’s Hope Never Dies (an Obama Biden Mystery).Join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with former FBI Agent Barbara van Driel and NY Times best selling author Andrew Shaffer on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.

This moment in history, in culture, in our election cycle demands truth and craves heroes. We cover both with Suzanne Lang on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.#Me Too has been building since women thought they’d made some strides in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s , 90’s, and ….whoops!Barbara van Driel, former FBI agent —serving during the initial wave of gender integration, tells a fun, disturbing, and altogether eye-opening view of the FBI during that time that resonates into our current moment in It Never Happened: FBI Negligence and Duplicity Revealed from the Inside Out. Oh, we need some heroes. They CAN be elected. Andrew Shaffer brings Joe Biden and Barack Obama back to us. They continue to serve, but this time as crime solvers and good buddies in Shaffer’s Hope Never Dies (an Obama Biden Mystery).Join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with former FBI Agent Barbara van Driel and NY Times best selling author Andrew Shaffer on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.

Seaweed. It plays a vital role in ocean ecology, and also in our health and diet, and in our local and global economies. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge is Susan Hand Shetterly’s book of stories about seaweed, and the people and creatures who depend upon it. Shetterly joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with KRCB’s A Novel Idea.

Seaweed. It plays a vital role in ocean ecology, and also in our health and diet, and in our local and global economies. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge is Susan Hand Shetterly’s book of stories about seaweed, and the people and creatures who depend upon it. Shetterly joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation with KRCB’s A Novel Idea.