Carla Malden is the author of My Two and Only.

We chat about writer a character in her latest novel that’s a widow versus writing her memoir After Image. What exactly are memories? Is humanity inherently evil? ….and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

John Hunter is the author of Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M.

Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on Wednesday, November 8th at 6pm. Just show up and we’ll have some fun.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Anne Leigh Parrish is the author of A Summer Morning.

Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on Wednesday, November 8th at 6pm. Just show up and we’ll have some fun.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Donna Marie Hayes is the author of These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman’s Story.

We discuss love, faith, what happened when someone died in front of her on the subway, her fear of rats, my fear of heights, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Rykarda Parasol’s new record is called Tuesday Morning.

We discuss Rykarda’s creative rebirth in Paris, how her mom shot up her stuffed animal with a gun in the backyard when Rykarda was 7 years old, her new record and collaborations with Marc Ottavi, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Photo credit: Tanya Rodriguez 

Jon Krampner is the author of Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success.

We discuss if Mo Udall became president instead of Carter we may never had Reagan, writing biographies vs. novels, and what happens when two writers are locked in a dark closet.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Beth Raymer is the author of Fireworks Every Night: A Novel.

We chat living the writing life vs. having a corporate job, how to get rent control in NYC, fake urgency, betraying people, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Jarret Keene is the author of Hammer of the Dogs. He also teaches graphic novel and world literature at UNLV.

We chat when Jarret was a paparazzo in Las Vegas, unsafe spaces, the Las Vegas military presence, and isolation culture with self checkout and door delivery.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

We discuss the old days of nurturing authors at publishing houses, the literary canon, sneering kids gotta be sneering kids, streaking naked at cricket matches and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Ariel Anderssen is the author of Playing To Lose: How a Jehovah’s Witness Became a Submissive BDSM Model.

We chat: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, BDSM, Eternal Life (yes or no), other Kinks, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.