Drinks with Tony

Marilee Albert is the author of The Tutor.

She studied philosophy at Yale before moving to Europe to work in the film business. These days, between TV and movie scripts, Marilee is a busy mother to two teen boys and a spirited Boston Terrier, and has recently started a nonprofit, OneVillageGreen, which promotes mental health and wellness in American kids and communities.

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Rykarda Parasol is the author of Aunt Black and Aunt Black Goes To Paris. She’s also an amazing singer and her full length records include The Color of Destruction, Against the Sun, For Blood and Wine, and Our Hearts First Meet.

At the end of the interview is a clip of Rykarda performing live in Drinks with Tony in 2008 when we were on Pirate Cat Radio.

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Bernard Meisler is the author of There’s Never Been a Better Time To Die. He’s also the founder and editor of Sensitive Skin Magazine, which, includes a literary podcast, so check that out.

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Mary Ladd is the author of The Wig Diaries. It’s a humorous, illustrated cancer book that wise cracks its way through hospitals, hair loss, wig-ness, and one huge doctor’s crush.

Mary has also written for California Magazine, Playboy, Time Magazine/Extra Crispy, Health, SF Weekly, and KQED.

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Lincoln A. Mitchell is the author of San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team. 

His other books include Will Big League Baseball Survive?: Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball and Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues. Essentially Lincoln is the man if you want to talk baseball and politics, which we do A LOT on this episode. He even comforts me, a bit, on how all this Trump stuff will balance itself out.

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Anthony Mora is the author of Virtual Velocity: An L.A. Story.

He has been a music journalist and was around the Los Angeles music scene during the punk years and even earlier.

Anthony is also a playwright. I hope you enjoy the show.

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John Nores is the author of Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America’s Wildlands From The Drug Cartels.

He was a warden for the Department of Fish and Wildlife in California starting in 1992 and retired in 2018 as a special operations lieutenant…. combatting the most environmentally damaging criminals working within California and impacting the nation.

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Jade Chang is the author of The Wangs vs. the World. She’s also a journalist and a television writer.

Chang is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

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Brad Warner is a Soto Zen priest. He is the author of Letters To a Dead Friend About Zen as well as Hardcore Zen, and Sit Down and Shut Up.

He runs the Angel City Zen Center in Echo Park, Los Angeles and gives talks and lectures all over the world.

We had a great discussion, enjoy the show.

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Kim Krizan is the author of Spy in the House of Anais Nin. She’s also the co-writer of the fabulous films Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight. In fact, listen to the show to get the low down on her true life story that became Before Sunrise. (Spoiler: It involves a Norwegian.)

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