Sonoma County’s Jazz MD, Larry Slater, in conversation with Kathy Sloane on her book Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club which through stories and photographs chronicles the days of that vibrant jazz club that closed in the eighties. Slater is also talks with mystery writer and jazz drummer Bill Moody on his Evan Horne novels featuring a mystery solving jazz pianist and include Fade to Blue, Looking for Chet Baker, and Bird Lives!

Poet, advocate, and science educator Lucille Lang Day reveals her unlikely life in her memoir Married at Fourteen: a True Story and is featured in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang.

Rosemary Manchester talks with Jean Wong about her debut collection of stories, Sleeping with the Gods.

Author, director, and painter Linda Loveland Reid and architect, playwright, and author H. B Reid join Suzanne Lang in conversation on their recently published books. Something in Stone is Loveland Reid’s most recent novel set in Sonoma County and the coastal community of Dillon Beach. Harry discusses his memoir, Nikita Khrushchev Waved at Me as well has his novel, The Concert – the Diary of Count Frederigo Alfieri.

Suzanne Lang in conversation with Lydia Crichton on her smart, savvy, politically astute romantic thriller set in Egypt, Grains of Truth; and with Bruce Holbert on his debut novel, Lonesome Animals, a western noir exploring issues of violence, family, and the taming of the West.

A good cigar, and a good meal - what could be more satisfying? This month on A Novel Idea, we bring you both!

Host Rosemary Manchester and Suzanne Lang welcome Emelio Gonzales-Llanes with his book Cigar City Stories: Tales of Old Ybor City; and Judith Newton with her memoir Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen.

Two writers from California’s Central Valley. Gary Soto in conversation about his latest book What Poets are Like, Up and Down with the Writing Life. Rosemary Manchester talks with Gerald Haslam on In Thought and Action, the Enigmatic Life of S.I. Hayakawa.

A Novel Idea for September is a preview of the Sonoma County Book Festival with Vickie DeArmon from Copperfield’s Books, along with Rosemary Manchester and musician and literary scholar Sarah Baker talking about Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller. Allison is just one of the authors featured at this year’s Festival.

It's "people helping people" on A Novel Idea this month with Paola Gianturco who brings us tales of Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon, to change the future for our children; and Dr. Rick Flinders brings us The Santa Rosa Reader: A Personal Anthology from the Family Medicine Residency.

Jane Vandenburgh in conversation with Suzanne Lang on Jane's memoir, The Wrong Dog Dream; Rosemary Manchester talks with novelist Kathleen Alcott on her debut novel The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. Barbara Quick reviews Cheryl Strayed's Wild, from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Mina Loy was a quintessential Modernist artist, essayist, and poet who most people never heard! She lived in the center of circles that included Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke, author of Becoming Modern, the Life of Mina Loy joins Suzanne Lang in conversation. Barbara Quick reviews Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life.