Marked Women is the focus this time on A Novel Idea. First, Suzanne Lang talks with Laura Maylene Walter on her award-winning novel Body of Stars . Then, it's a conversation with historians Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus on their nonfiction work, Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute . It’s A Novel Idea, airing every first, third, and fifth Sunday at 10:00 am PT. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org .