My guest this week on Bibliocracy Radio (5 PM, Sunday) is a multi-talented, multi-genre artist with entire careers perhaps unseen by half of his fans, even as he wins awards and writes simultaneously in Young Adult fiction, adult suspense, poetry and, yes, literary fiction of the highest order, or in his case controlled, dreamful, sophisticated […]

Sunday night at 5 PM, my guest is Victoria Chang, continuing our discussion of her work so far, and featuring readings from her two most recent collections.  Author of four volumes, her most recent, Barbie Chang, is another in a series of acclaimed books defined by self-consciousness, wordplay, constructive puzzlement, social commentary, humor and razor-sharp precision at line […]

My guest this week on Bibliocracy Radio — Sunday evening at 5 — is the poet Victoria Chang, author of four books, most recently Barbie Chang, another in a series of acclaimed collections defined by self-consciousness, wordplay, constructive puzzlement, social commentary, humor and razor-sharp precision at line and individual word level, with each word, clause, […]

My guest on Bibliocracy Radio this week has a byline you will recognize, as well as author credit on many popular culture books and novels, too.  He’s a writer, editor, teacher, mentor and valued colleague to so many journalists — especially features writers — with an impressive professional resume.  Martin J. Smith, formerly an editor […]

This week on Bibliocracy Radio (Sunday, 5 pm on KPFK), I speak with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman on the occasion of his co-authorship of an urgently timely, accessible, affirming and yet still provocative book, Free Speech on Campus.  Co-written with the founder of UC Irvine’s law school, the legendary Erwin Chemerinsky, this short history of, […]

This week (Sunday, 5 pm on KPFK) I present a very special show recorded on site at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Riverside, California, which hosts all variety of community events including musical concerts.  It’s axiomatic to observe that the personal is political, which lately might make political people personally angry, sleepless, frightened but also […]

My guests this week (Sunday at 5 PM) have made both a significant literary and political contribution to the libraries of required oddness, wit and resistance, ever growing and, happily, still in demand.  In The Obama Inheritance:   Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, editor Gary Phillips has organized, simultaneously, both a response and a provocation, with […]

This week’s show (Sunday, 5 pm on KPFK 90.7 FM) is my second recorded with poet, writer, naturalist, photographer and teacher Charles Hood, whose most recently published creative work includes a long poetic novel, a second prizewinning collection and, the subject of today’s conversation,  a guidebook introducing beginners to the most easily seen bird species […]

This week’s show (Sunday, 5 pm on KPFK 90.7 FM)  is the first of two featuring a writer with many and wide interests, and a long and impressive publication history including, just in the past year, release of two award-winning poetry collections.  Charles Hood’s engagement with both language and the natural world, in fiction, nonfiction […]

My guest this week on Bibliocracy Radio (Wednesday, 2 pm on KPFK 90.7 FM) has written an immediately engaging, empathetic, multiple biography revisiting, perhaps revising the story of events, campaigns, political movements leading up to America’s entry into World War I as lived by five defining figures of its sometimes forgotten or misapprehended Left.  In Young Radicals in […]