This week (Wednesday, 2 pm), I present a special performance edition of the show, recorded at the Orange County Public Library’s historic Katie Wheeler branch library in Irvine.  The program features readings by four contributors — all women! — to the first-ever literary anthology of writing from Orange County, California, co-edited by Yours Truly and […]

Wednesday, 2 PM on Bibliocracy Radio:  My guest this week Jeff Solomon has written a highly readable if academically precise, carefully argued and also fun revisionist twin biography of two iconic figures of American popular culture, taken apart their life stories and argued for both their actual respective artistic successes and defining, even audacious achievement […]

My guest this week (Wednesday, 2 pm on KPFK) is Brooke Gladstone, manager, editor and co-host of one of the best media analysis programs on the air, the must-listen to On the Media.  Also featuring the estimable Bob Garfield, this weekly standout NPR show is a smart, funny, sharp call to attention and action by way […]

Wednesday at 2 PM on Bibliocracy Radio (KPFK 90.7 FM) I welcome a writer whose prose immediately, startlingly, confidently sets the scene, with no hesitating and with the full, vivid confidence of both lived memory and careful observation.  Don Waters has a new short story collection out, and its scenes and settings are mostly of the […]

Wednesday at 2 PM, on Bibliocracy Radio, two readings from a recent celebration marking the newest issue of Santa Monica Review.  We’ll hear from Leslie Brody and Ryan Ridge, a couple of favorite frequent contributors to the magazine.  Brody, author of the landmark memoir Red Star Sister and the authoritative biography of Jessica Mitford, reads […]

My guest this week on Bibliocracy Radio (noon on KPFK 90.7 FM) is Professor Ronald D. Cohen.  He is the go-to expert, booster and celebrant of American folk music and its political and cultural meaning to the history of our country.  He’s made an academic career and personal passion of teaching others about the phenomenon of the […]

My guest on Bibliocracy Radio, noon on Tuesday, is short story writer Melissa Yancy.  “Richly layered” is how the publishers of her debut collection describe the emotional, intellectual and artistic composition of the nine remarkable short stories included in Dog Years, which won the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, a big deal in American fiction.  […]

Tuesday at noon on KPFK, my guest is Florence Williams.   She has written a kind of combined travel journal, case study, meditation and science report arguing the thesis that time spent connecting to nature is good for our brains, health, creativity and moods.  It is both gentle polemic and urgent call to action.  Indeed, The […]

Tuesday at noon on Pacifica Radio KPFK in Southern California, my guest is Noah Isenberg.  Occasionally a book received from publishers immediately finds its place on the very top of the stack of review copies here at Bibliocracy Radio, and so it was with getting this singular appreciation, analysis and insider’s take-apart of the film […]