Wednesday night at 8 on Bibliocracy, KPFK Radio 90.7
FM: JULIA
SWEENEY.
Despite never having never met her until today, my guest’s
voice is, for me and my family, so very familiar and welcome, from listening
over and over again to the CD of her one-woman performance “Letting Go of God,”
as well as “familiar” in the sense of her disarmingly funny, intellectually
honest take - as in her newest offering - family. Julia Sweeney needs no introduction, except to say that she has
by way of this show and her literary production written some excellent work
which flirts with popular culture and drama and still shows the skill of a
serious, sincere memoirist. She’s
written Letting Go of God, In a Family Way and God Said Ha!, and is in town for this weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in
support of a new collection of essays: If It’s
Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother. It’s 24 thematically linked short pieces about
her own motherhood, about marriage and love and sadness from a writer and all-around
engaged observer who is always figuring things out, funnily, wisely. This
weekend is a terrific opportunity to hear her talk about and read from her newest
work. She appears on Bibliocracy tonight
and on the Los Angeles
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