tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29139517236110895952024-03-18T21:20:29.043-07:00Bibliocracy RadioKPFK Radio's weekly books show, Wednesday evenings at 8 PM on 90.7 FM or streaming live at http://www.kpfk.org.Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-23622674471031975652014-06-19T12:42:00.002-07:002014-06-25T05:51:46.792-07:00Wednesday, June 25 - Leibovitz on Leonard!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy, 8 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>LIEL LEIBOVITZ</b>. My guest tonight has, like so many, been both
a fan and student of the singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard
Cohen. In his new book, Liel Leibovitz
writes a fan’s appreciation and a cultural critique of the creative genius
whose voice has made such a mark. In <i><b>A
Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll,
Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen</b></i>, Liel Leibovitz tells both the life
story of the artist and helpfully takes apart the lyrics, lines and stories
toward understanding Cohen in the bigger picture, culturally, politically,
historically. There’s consideration of
life events, gossip, decisions, the unlikely career and, best of all, an
argument about Cohen’s singularity as an artist in the context of philosophy
and religion and poetry. Liel Leibovitz
is the author or co-author of several books of nonfiction, including, most
recently, <i>The Chosen Peoples: <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>,
and the Ordeals of Divine Election</i>, co-written with Todd Gitlin, as well as
been a contributor to newspapers and magazines such as the Los Angeles Times,
the Atlantic Monthly, Dissent, and Tablet. Thanks for listening on the radio or
online, or as a free download on the KPFK archives. With broadcast of tonight’s show, I’m taking
a break from Bibliocracy, to pursue a couple of writing projects. Stay tuned
for news about my excellent replacement hosts and more literary arts
programming. I’ll be back on air in spring of next year.</span></div>
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Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-53207749225045100372014-06-16T09:25:00.001-07:002014-06-16T09:25:28.405-07:00Wednesday, June 18 Natalie Baszile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night at 8 PM on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>NATALIE
BASZILE</b>. It’s a pleasure to not only
celebrate the arrival of a first work from a writer whose novel you’ve
anticipated, but to welcome it heartily when the book turns out to be a story
so very strong, engaging, a pleasure to read, with writing of confidence and
authority, especially about place. It is
something special to be taught about someplace in the world unfamiliar by somebody you don’t know, and as a result
of that teaching to develop trust in and affection for their characters and the
project itself. In the tradition of
Barbara Kingsolver and Louise Erdrich, films by John Sayles, with blurbs on the
back from Karen Joy Fowler, Natalie Baszile’s debut novel <b><i>Queen Sugar</i></b> immerses us
in the life of a character from <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city> who
finds an unexpected reason to relocate to <st1:city w:st="on">New
Orleans</st1:city>. Young,
educated, urban widow and mother <st1:place w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:place>
“Charley” Bordelon inherits a sugar cane farm of all things, and with it a
family she does not really know, troubled and complicated. There are of course secrets and a steep
learning --- and living --- curve for our heroine, for whom we are rooting all
the way. Natalie Baszile has an MA in Afro American Studies from UCLA and an
MFA at Warren Wilson. She studied with
Jim Krusoe at <st1:placename w:st="on">Santa Monica</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> and now lives in <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online,
or as a download whenever you like.
Note: Mr. Bib takes some time off
after next week’s broadcast, to write and complete a book project. Stay
tuned for excellent substitute programming.
I’ll return in spring 2015, with more Bibliocracy Radio. Thanks, always, for listening and for
supporting anti-corporate non-commercial community-support activist radio in <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>. </span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-53918311098800737402014-06-09T19:38:00.001-07:002014-06-09T19:38:52.524-07:00Wednesday, June 11 - Scott Martelle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday at 8 on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>SCOTT
MARTELLE.</b> The new biography of a human
body --- perhaps a genre all its own --- written by one of our smartest, most
curious and hardworking nonfiction writers arrives as a popular history book, <i>The Admiral and the Ambassador</i>. You’ll be familiar with author its author Scott
Martelle’s previous books, or should be, and will have seen his reporting and
commentary and book reviews all over the place, including at the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. The longtime journalist has done previous
take-aparts of the city <st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place>,
the judicial prosecution of American Left radicalism and the infamous Ludlow
Massacre. In his newest, on the American
Revolutionary navy hero John Paul Jones, he digs up the story of Jones’
forgotten if still very large life and, yes, the fascinating search for his
lost corpus. Telling the story of Jones,
a hero but also a scoundrel, and the Civil War veteran who searched for and
found the lost and nearly forgotten body of the founder of the US Navy gives
the enthusiastic and engaging Martelle the chance to tell two, three, a dozen or
more stories about our Republic by way of resurrecting all kinds of
through-lines of our wonderfully complicated and entertaining military and
cultural heritage. This is an elegantly
woven story within a story within the big story of the first hundred years of
our Republic, with Martelle tying the search (and discovery, and interment) for
a body to a search for national identity, national myth and the discovery of a
second hero, the man, Horace Porter, who largely created it by way of the
buccaneer and naval adventurer. Thanks
for listening live on the radio on online, and as a free download from the
station’s archives. </span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-65295626947607544282014-06-04T07:01:00.000-07:002014-06-04T07:01:44.200-07:00Wednesday, June 4 - KEM NUNN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy Radio, 8 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>KEM NUNN</b>.
My guest tonight is a favorite Southern California son and a favorite
author, who 30 years ago wrote a beautiful and enduring book about our region
called <i>Tapping the Source</i>, embraced
and celebrated as a Raymond Chandleresque surf novel set in the scariest and
darkest and, simultaneously most sublime places of coast and desert, including old
<st1:place w:st="on">Huntington Beach</st1:place>. It became an instant classic. Then there was <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Unassigned</st1:placename><i> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Territory</st1:placetype></i></st1:place> (1986), <i>Pomona Queen</i> (1992), <i>The Dogs of Winter</i> (1997) and, most
recently, <i>Tijuana Straits</i>, that book
a kind of eco-thriller, but all of them written with the style of a literary
artist who redefines our region and challenges our expectations. In his newest
novel, <i>Chance</i>, <b>Kem Nunn</b> mashes up
mathematics, brain injury, multiple personalities, parenthood, with a winning
protagonist who trespasses by way of ethics and love and his own moral code, a medical
man who offers his expertise in forensic neuropsychiatry, of all things. <i>Chance</i>
is also the darkest buddy movie novel premise you can imagine, with a
charismatic urban warrior criminal to conspire with or enable the deeply
troubled and compromised anti-hero, along with the ultimate femme fatale, all
of it offered in a lovingly skeptical take-apart of the Bay Area, a noirish
mystery with suggestions of “Vertigo” and plenty of stylish, smart prose. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online,
and as a free download from the station’s audio archives. And thanks to radio station KUCI, where this
show was recorded.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-81411714184355184342014-05-28T07:20:00.002-07:002014-05-28T07:28:49.222-07:00Wednesday, May 28 - Ashley Farmer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tonight on Bibliocracy Radio, KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>ASHLEY
FARMER</b>. My guest this week is a writer who purposefully confuses syntax and
word choice, and leaves loudly unsaid what is not absolutely necessary, both
moving the narrative along and yet, always, moving toward something slower,
bigger, mythic and fable-like. She
simultaneously concentrates her wit and tunes our ears to wonder over the
delicacy and opportunity of puns, grammar, parts of speech and the
nutty-wonderful possibility of language and dream. The short-short stories or prose poems of my guest <b>Ashley Farmer</b> are evocative, aphoristic, but bigger, and suggestive of a whimsical confidence, faith in language and idiom, fun and funny and yet heartfelt serious. In her new collection, <i><b>Beside Myself</b></i>, Farmer assumes a kind of unspoken connectedness of association, between words on the page and in the experience of readers and listeners. While built on experiential aesthetics, the plots of these small, fragment fables stand strong on their own: a father who digs a hole into which his entire family sinks, Ronald Reagan as, yes, a bad precedent --- pun intended --- a church called Perfect Christmas, as if a kitschy Thomas Kincaide portrait or snow globey idealization, and a perfume called "Heavenly." Farmer is the author of a previous collection titled Farm Town, is an editor at the online journal <i>Juked</i>, and teaches writing in Southern California. Thanks for listening on the radio or online, or as a free download from the KPFK audio archives any time you like.</span><br />
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Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-77574100145207264352014-04-30T07:34:00.000-07:002014-04-30T07:34:02.637-07:00Wednesday, April 30 - Ryan Ridge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy Radio, 8 PM on KPFK in Southern
California: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><b>RYAN</b></st1:placename><b> <st1:placename w:st="on">RIDGE</st1:placename></b></st1:place>. </span></div>
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self-awareness, collective self-disregard, wry and hilarious and mean jokery
and yet a genuinely innovative reimagining of language as a possibility for showing
off (!) all kinds of intended and unintended
moments and scenes of reflection. His
writing is short, and yet deep, fragmented but evoking so much of the merciless
critique of our wacky, maudlin republic.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ryan</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Ridge</st1:placename></st1:place> reminds this reader of Donald
Barthelme in his wit and line, and of Terry Southern in his premise and social
critique. Ridge has been published
widely in literary magazines and is the author of a previous chapbook with the
perfectly deadpan title, <b><i>Hey, It’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place></i></b> and a new
collection called <b><i>22<sup>nd</sup> Century Man</i></b> as well as an earlier book of short
stories together with a novella called <b><i>Hunters and Gamblers</i></b>. I reviewed it, or rather celebrated it, over
at <i>OC Bookly</i>, if you need more
convincing. <st1:placename w:st="on">Ryan</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Ridge</st1:placename> is a graduate of the UC Irvine
MFA in Creative Writing and has a new novel forthcoming from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Michigan Press</st1:placename></st1:place>. See his excellent website for more: <a href="http://www.ryanridge.com/">http://www.ryanridge.com/</a></span></div>
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a free download from the station’s audio archives. Special thanks to engineer Stan Misraje and UC
Irvine History Department manager Marcus Kanda.
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Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-61781669139035209862014-04-06T07:44:00.001-07:002014-04-06T07:44:59.992-07:00Wednesday, April 9 - Festival of Books preview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy, 8 PM on KPFK: <b>DAVID
ULIN</b> and <b><i>Los Angeles Times </i>Festival of Books</b> preview. It’s springtime, and the line-up of literary
events is a full one, not the least of them being the annual Festival of Books
sponsored by the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>,
this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, April 12 & 13 on the campus of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Southern California</st1:placename></st1:place>. KPFK will be there, broadcasting <i>this show</i>
live at 10 a.m., and followed by onsite live broadcasts by Ian Masters (“Background
Briefing”) and Maria Armoudian (“The Scholars’ Circle”). The KPFK booth is number 210 so come by to
watch live radio, buy books and station-related items or just to say hello to
staff, programmers and volunteers in between visiting hundreds of other
exhibitors and, best of all, attending panels and talks all weekend long. Our Bibliocracy guide to all things Festival
of Books is a friend of this program and a friend of readers and writers, and a
terrific reviewer and writer himself, books editor for the <i>LA
Times</i> David Ulin. He’ll talk with me
tonight about the festival, the annual book prize nominations and his own work,
too. Ulin is the author of <i>The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes,
Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith</i>, a book knocked off
bookstore shelves after our most recent earthquake, and the editor of <i>Another City: Writing from Los Angeles</i>
and <i>Writing Los Angeles: A Literary
Anthology</i>, and also a long meditative book-length essay called <i>The Lost Art of Reading</i>, which begins
with the startling confession from a professional bibliofella: “Sometime late last year --- I don’t remember
when, exactly --- I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read.” Then
Ulin takes apart the many challenges to the interior life as against the
virtual assault, and comes out swinging for books and reading and civic
literacy. Tonight he does the same, as
in his smart reviews for the paper, and we preview this weekend’s books
festival. KPFK is a media sponsor of the
festival, about which you can get information at <a href="http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/">http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy Radio, 8 PM PST on KPFK 90.7 FM and
online at <a href="http://www.kpfk.org/">www.kpfk.org</a>: <b>SUSAN
MINOT</b>. I’m so pleased to host a
writer tonight whose work and writing life I --- as so many of her fans ---
have followed since publication of her gorgeously fragmented novel-in-stories <i>Monkeys</i>
introduced Susan Minot ("mine-it") to readers. She
has since then published short stories, novels and screenplays including her
acclaimed 1997 novel <i>Evening</i>. In a
new book, <b><i>Thirty Girls</i></b>, Susan
Minot applies her delicately, ecstatically poetic narrative touch to an almost
impossibly cruelly quotidian story of the kidnapping of, yes, thirty Ugandan
schoolgirls by the crazy cult called the Lord's Resistance Army, famously led
by one Joseph Kony. Over many years his
sadistic guerilla disciples stole 60,000 or more children from their families
as sex slaves and child soldiers, killing many.
Many Americans learned about Kony in a documentary film that went viral
two years ago. <st1:city w:st="on">Minot</st1:city>'s fictionalized telling of that
singular episode of the larger story --- which first garnered international
attention in 1996 --- includes the life and journey of the teller, an American
journalist named Jane Wood --- heartbroken, widowed, lost but always
introspective and self-conscious. Susan Minot’s nonfiction has been published
widely, and a story about kidnapped child soldiers in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Uganda</st1:country-region> was
published in <i>McSweeney’s</i> and included
in the <i>Best American Travel Writing 2001</i>.
She is an elegant, sensual, urgently engaged writer of beautiful sentences,
here taking on an almost impossibly difficult crime and making of it art and
insight. Thanks for listening, on the
radio or online live, or whenever you like at the KPFK audio archives, as a
free download. See you at the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Los
Angeles</i></st1:place></st1:city><i>
Times</i> Festival of Books on the weekend of April 12 & 13, USC campus, where
Bibliocracy Radio will broadcast live 10-11 on Sunday morning.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-85048136936909745632014-03-19T20:16:00.000-07:002014-03-19T20:16:42.232-07:00Wednesday, March 27 - Shawn Vestal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM at 8 PM: <b>SHAWN VESTAL</b>. My guest this week was perhaps given lemons, sour
and sweet, by way of family, culture, religion and politics, but out of it he
has squeezed literary lemonade indeed, co-opting and transforming and
repurposing the myths and tropes and vernacular of his Mormon upbringing into
serious, sincere short literary fiction.
Somehow not exactly disrespecting that religion but instead perhaps
respecting more the resisters, doubters, overlooked or victimized and even
maybe himself, <b>Shawn Vestal</b> has
rewritten past and present and future toward creating alternative and
transgressive, often funny and frequently very much darker versions of the
already dark, weird and fascinating tales of that experience. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Author of the new collection of short stories, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Godforsaken Idaho</i></b><span style="font-size: large;">, Vestal takes
the iconography, stories, obsessions and cultural practices of the “family home
evenings” tradition and reworks them for audiences in a big wink or grimace,
you decide, but in nine stories elegant, smart, funny and resonant.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">His day job is as a regular columnist for
Spokane, Washington’s </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Spokesman-Review</i><span style="font-size: large;">, and these and other stories have
appeared in </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">McSweeney’s</i><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Tin House</i><span style="font-size: large;"> and in the new anthology from </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Ecotone</i><span style="font-size: large;">
magazine called </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Astoria to Zion:</i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"> </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from
Ecotone's First Decade. </i><span style="font-size: large;">This is one of my most favorite recent short story
collections, covering past, present ant future, from heaven to the mythic
stories of the conquest of the American West. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for listening, on the radio or online,
or as a download whenever you like, free from the KPFK audio archives.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-9612962385486175322014-03-19T10:16:00.000-07:002014-03-19T10:16:53.684-07:00Wednesday, March 19 Tom Zoellner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy: <b>TOM
ZOELLNER</b>. My guest tonight is a gregarious and engaging social historian
and researcher and, most of all, a terrific storyteller. No matter the subject, <b>Tom Zoellner</b> finds a way in, and along with his unassuming yet
authoritative voice he brings vulnerability and nearly ego-less experiential generosity. His previous nonfiction has considered uranium
and diamonds, respectively, the real-life humanitarian behind the Hotel Rwanda
story, and offered an urgent cultural case study of the state of <st1:place w:st="on">Arizona</st1:place> by way of the
shooting of its congresswoman. <b><i>Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern
World, from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief</i></b> is perhaps Tom
Zoellner’s most ambitious book, and certainly covers the most territory, no
kidding. This one is bound to be an
instant travel-writing classic, in the tradition of Paul Theroux and Pico Iyer,
and will please both choo-choo fanatics and general readers with its
rail-centric view of seven different parts of the world, each considered in
relation to the tracks, the trains, the towns and the people, and forces that
put them there. Zoellner rides the
rails, across <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>, looking out the window and
looking into the past, with a brief journey into the future by way of high-speed
bullet trains. Zoellner teaches at Chapman University, where I spoke with the
author of the excellent <i>A Safeway In
Arizona</i>, as well as <i>Uranium</i>, <i>The Heartless Stone</i> and </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">An Ordinary <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Man<span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-style: normal;"> For more, see my recent blog post over at </span>OC Bookly:<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></i></div>
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radio or online, or as a free download from the KPFK audio archives. All aboard!</span></span></i></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-11455271069872151782014-03-11T07:42:00.000-07:002014-03-11T07:42:40.588-07:00Wednesday, March 12 - Gary Amdahl's Debut Novel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night at 8 on Bibliocracy: <b>GARY AMDAHL</b>.
I am an admirer of both the writing of Gary Amdahl and the topics he
chooses, of the politics and the dreamful associations, and of that alchemy
which seems to occur when he begins a story and, as with few other writers, I
am absolutely with him at each and ever step of the story, as if always at the
beginning throughout, sometimes so much so that when his beginnings meet up in
character kismet and symmetry and poetry and an obviously and creatively
calculated or inspired dénouement or pause or plot development I am made giddy
and breathless. Two things you should
know about his work: Amdahl cannot
finish a thought, and for that we readers are so much better – as thinkers and
co-conspiring imaginists. And, yet, he simultaneously
just does not know when to stop, which is our good luck too, because his peeling of
the onion, layering of the story, reassembling of onion and brain and heart and
even history is about as much serious, sincere fun you can have, as they say,
with your pants on. Amdahl’s newest is the first novel published by the
playwright, poet and short story writer boostered by Sven Birkerts and then
Milkweed and now a small house which has established, of all things, the Gary
Amdahl Library. <i><b>Across My Big Brass Bed</b></i> is a novel posing as an intellectual and
emotional memoir, an elegant and seamless and endlessly self-reinvigorating big
story meets autobiography meets political wish fulfillment meets love and sex and
empathy-story, with motorcycle racing, music, sex and love, anarchism, the Viet
Nam War but always those amazing, long, textured, funny, startling Gary Amdahl
sentences, here more than 400 pages of them.
A sane Holden Caulfield, perhaps, a Proustian rememberer and a fabulist,
too, Amdahl’s adolescent to recollecting grown, lonely man narrator writes the
whole book in a single day, unbelievably or, no, not unbelievable, totally believable
for an Amdahl narrator. It’s a real joy
to host Gary Amdahl, and to hear him read from and talk about the new book. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online,
or later as a free download anywhere, any times you like.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-72149496003037748732014-02-15T18:15:00.001-08:002014-03-01T07:13:22.627-08:00Wednesday, Mar 5: Creating More Atheists - Peter Boghossian, Reprised<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">An evergreen tonight, post-fund drive, and feeling both celebratory and wanting to make sure this one gets heard. My guest tonight is an author-activist two-fer, a teacher-philosopher and seditious and provocative strategist who both preaches, as it were, the practice of critical thinking and teaches others how to exercise it. He walks the walk and talks the talk by way of not just engaging audiences and students but persuading them to actively, respectfully, humanely and aggressively engage others, including the religionists or unengaged whose thinking is the opposite of critical. Dr. Peter Boghossian is the author of the unshyly titled <i>A Manual for Creating Atheists </i>with a foreword by our own <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place> skeptics activist Michael Shermer. Boghossian is a full-time faculty member at <st1:placename w:st="on">Portland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>’s philosophy department and likes to remind us that he was thrown out of the doctoral program at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:placename></st1:place>’s philosophy department. No less than Richard Dawkins acknowledges Boghossian’s techniques of friendly persuasion and I have personally been so stirred not just by his argument but by his sincere and generous, even loving promotion of an “Honest and authentic way to live life.” God bless you for listening, on the radio or online, or as a free download from the station archives. Thanks, always for supporting KPFK as a listener-sponsor. Find and friend me on Facebook, bibliophiles.</span></div>
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Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-65093140209639996822014-01-27T18:01:00.000-08:002014-01-27T18:01:41.283-08:00Wednesday, Jan 29 - Creating Atheists!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My guest tonight is an author-activist two-fer, a teacher-philosopher
and seditious and provocative strategist who both preaches, as it were, the
practice of critical thinking and teaches others how to exercise it. He walks the walk and talks the talk by way
of not just engaging audiences and students but persuading them to actively,
respectfully, humanely and aggressively engage others, including the
religionists or unengaged whose thinking is the opposite of critical. Dr. Peter Boghossian is the author of the
unshyly titled <i>A Manual for Creating Atheists </i>with a foreword by our own <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place> skeptics activist Michael Shermer. Boghossian is a full-time faculty member at <st1:placename w:st="on">Portland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>’s
philosophy department and likes to remind us that he was thrown out of the
doctoral program at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:placename></st1:place>’s
philosophy department. No less than
Richard Dawkins acknowledges Boghossian’s techniques of friendly persuasion and
I have personally been so stirred not just by his argument but by his sincere
and generous, even loving promotion of an “Honest and authentic way to live
life.” God bless you for listening, on the radio or online, or as a free
download from the station archives.
Please support KPFK as a listener-sponsor with a generous renewal of
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Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-89371666262841831882014-01-20T20:34:00.000-08:002014-01-20T20:34:18.954-08:00Wednesday, January 22 - Russ Kick, Death Poems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM in <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>:
<b>RUSS KICK</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It’s perhaps possible to talk with my guest tonight Russ
Kick about nearly anything.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Or
everything, and to hear him talk about it all well, and authoritatively.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Or anti-authoritatively.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ha!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">He’s
the legendary underground publisher and editor of all kinds of books, about
government, society and the arts, and most recently the wonderful mad genius
behind three volumes of literary fiction and nonfiction organized and imagined
and illustrated by graphic artists --- in other words cartoonists --- in the
amazing instant classic </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as
Comics and Visuals. </i><span style="font-size: large;">You might know him best through his work as editor of the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Everything You Know</i><span style="font-size: large;"> series, from his own
Disinformation Press.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Russ Kick is a kind
of Tom Paine pamphleteer meets archivist and political-cultural provocateur,
and his latest if unlikely contribution to the literature of what is often not
celebrated is an anthology of poetry with a helpfully inviting subtitle.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">It’s called </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking,
Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal,
Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid</i></b><i style="font-size: x-large;">. </i><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a
lovely volume, with all the usual suspects (Dickenson, Yeats, Hughes,
Shakespeare and Homer) to our own late Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins and Andrei
Codrescu, just to drop a few names.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kick
will talk about his project, and the two of us read some favorite poems, me in Studio C and Russ Kick from the auspices of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, thanks!.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">you</i><span style="font-size: large;"> for listening, on the radio or online,
or later as a download from the KPFK archives.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Please remember Bibliocracy Radio when the next fund drive arrives. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-17089687888408571472014-01-15T08:00:00.000-08:002014-01-15T08:00:07.854-08:00Wednesday, Jan 15 - Don Waters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy, 8 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM in <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>:
<b>DON WATERS</b>. My guest tonight skirts not the thin line,
but a very broad line, between satire and sincerity, picaresque and realism, in
this case that line being the US border with Mexico, a wall, a metaphor, a
state of mind and a terrific trope for the division and dualism in the life of
his conflicted hero, a smart, broken-hearted thirty something slacker who
genuinely cares for old people even as he sells them drugs. After the prizewinning short story collection
that got him lots of attention for smart, funny writing, my guest Don Waters
has upped the ante with a morality and mortality tale, set in a retirement
village in Arizona, that border and borderline state, in a short, punched-up,
funny and roughly charming novel called, yes, <b><i>Sunland</i></b>. Don Waters is the author of the previous story
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">collection</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on"><i>Desert</i></st1:placetype></st1:place><i> Gothic</i>, winner of
the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction has been anthologized in the <i>Pushcart
Prize</i>, <i>Best of the West</i>, and <i>New Stories from the
Southwest</i>. A frequent contributor to
the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, he’s also written for the<i> New
York Times Book Review</i>, <i>Outside</i>, <i>The Believer</i>,
and <i>Slate</i>, among other magazines. He is a graduate of the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow. But what, you ask, has he done lately? Ha! He’s
written a sincerely and sarcastically and astute novel which sends up and yet
shows empathy for generations of Americans, old and young. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online
live, or as a free download from the KPFK audio archives. Support the only non-commercial,
anti-corporate people’s media on the dial.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight at 8 PM on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>TOM
NISSLEY</b>. My guest tonight has
produced a huge gift for readers, and an irresistible way in for non-readers:
an almanac and <i>homage</i> and fun
encyclopedic invitation to history, books, politics, digression --- and more wonderful
digression --- storytelling and literacy, all of it a tribute to his own happy
pursuit of, yes, all of the above.
Introduced to <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
as “a writer from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Seattle</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>” on <i>Jeopardy!</i>, super-winner on that show <b>Tom Nissley</b> holds an English Ph D, is a former editor and blogger
at Amazon and, indeed, has written for the <i>Paris
Review Daily</i>, <i>The Millions</i> and <i>The Stranger</i>. His amazing book, <b><i>A Reader’s Book of Days</i></b>,
should have been your holiday present to all the readers in your life, but it’s
not too late to secure a copy, for them, and for yourself. <b><i>A Reader’s Book of Days</i></b> is a
year-long daily review of authors’ births and deaths, publications, with
almanac-style fictional and nonfictional details, incidents, anecdotes, jokes
and revelations. This book esteems not
just writers and the reading and writing life, but argues for a whole readerly
way of appreciating past, present and future, one day at a time. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online
live, or as a free download from the station’s audio archives. Thanks to engineer Stan Misraje, and to you
for supporting listener-sponsored anti-corporate community radio for smart
people who read, and listen. Find me on
<i>Facebook</i>. </span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-53751399659033705442013-12-20T16:50:00.001-08:002013-12-20T16:50:30.631-08:00January 1 - Heyday Winner Keenan Norris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NORRIS</b>. The arrival of Keenan Norris’s first full-length work of fiction
ends, happily, the anticipation he’s generated among fans of a young writer and
scholar, an author so far of winning short stories. It’s been acknowledged with his novel, <b><i>Brother
and the Dancer</i></b> chosen as winner of the 2012 James D. Houston
Award. This is a big deal indeed,
publication of a work of fiction honoring the late, legendary <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state> writer and teacher Jim Houston,
the second of Heyday’s annual selections.
Norris grew up and was educated in the Inland Empire, holds an MFA from <st1:placename w:st="on">Mills</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype>
and a PhD from the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename>, <st1:city w:st="on">Riverside</st1:city>.
His research interests include urban literature and the publishing industry. He
teaches English, African-American Literature and promotes the AFFIRM program at
<st1:placename w:st="on">Evergreen</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">San Jose</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>.
His work, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in the <i>Santa Monica
Review, Green Mountains Review, </i>and <i>Evansville Review</i>, the
online journal <i>Connotation Press</i>,
in the terrific anthology, <i>Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s
Inland Empire, </i>and <i>BOOM: A Journal of California</i>. He is
editing Scarecrow Press’s upcoming collection of critical essays <i>Street
Lit: Popularity, Controversy & Analysis</i> and lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area. This debut novel
traces the life choices of two African American young people from Highland,
California, exploring race, class, and geography in an idiomatic and intimate,
sociological and yet personal dual coming-of-age novel. Urgent and
philosophical, political and poetic, this novel marks, as they say, the bright beginning
of a career by a talented young writer.
Thanks for listening. Happy New
Year.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-91087414629429917752013-12-20T16:33:00.001-08:002013-12-20T16:33:28.956-08:00December 25 - Kate Milliken<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy, Christmas Day, 8 PM on KPFK: <b>KATE
MILLIKEN</b>. It’s a real pleasure to
celebrate a long-time writer whose individual successes add up lately to
recognition and celebration. For my
guest Kate Milliken this comes from winning the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Iowa</st1:placename></st1:place>’s
most excellent John Simmons Short Fiction Award for <b><i>If I’d Known You Were Coming</i></b><i>,</i> a collection of
twelve just plain breathtaking short stories.
Kate Milliken’s characters don’t so much try to reconcile absence and
loss as live with it, work it, and test its power. Milliken’s voice and stylized, economical
prose is striking in its engagement with what is gone, missing – nearly and
sometimes as if what is gone is a character itself. Milliken’s characters are mostly missing
parents, missing children, missing in all senses of the word. Kate Milliken’s stories have appeared in <i>ZYZZYVA</i>, <i>Fiction</i>, <i>New Orleans Review</i>,
and, yes, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Santa Monica</i></st1:place></st1:city><i> Review</i>. This is a gorgeous and totally satisfying collection of stories.
If you’d like more rhapsodic appreciation from me, check out the review I
posted over at <i>OC Bookly</i>: <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/12/kate_milliken.php">http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/12/kate_milliken.php</a>. Thanks for listening. Happy Holidays from The Bibliofella.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-9946590171706133172013-12-03T18:36:00.000-08:002013-12-03T18:36:19.230-08:00Wednesday, December 4 - Jerry Stahl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight at 8 PM on Bibliocracy:
<b>JERRY STAHL</b>. His many fans enjoy
the challenge of describing the perverse pleasure of reading and envying the
work of my guest tonight --- if not his life! --- fiction writer, screenwriter
and memoirist Jerry Stahl. Lydia Lunch
calls his work “literary burlesque.”
It’s fun to try to characterize his singularly, manically engaged work:
social commentary, drug culture confidential, adolescent coming-of-age, <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place> inside scooper. He’s a stand-up William Burroughs, a noir Don
Dellilo, a Pynchonian fabulist whose sharp eye and dark wit convince and engage
immediately. See, it’s easy? And fun.
I, by the way, like Nathaneal West meets Terry Southern, but then you
don’t need to appreciate other iconic writers to appreciate this iconic writer. Start anywhere and be introduced to the voice
and composition and timing and humor which create and then repurpose satire for
sincere autobiography, survival and, with the new novel, <i><b>Happy Mutant Baby Pills</b></i>, political critique and something perhaps
even like hope. JERRY STAHL has written
widely, for television and for film, but you can read his fiction and
nonfiction in the memoir <i>Permanent
Midnight</i>, in the novels <i>Perv</i> and <i>I, Fatty</i> and in a short story
collection, <i>Love Without</i>. And it turns out he’s also KPFK
listener-supporter, and has even gleefully sent up the station in the new book. Don’t miss my half hour with one of my
favorite writers. Thanks for
listening. No Bibliocracy for the rest
of December. Instead, Fund Drive and a
couple of holidays. Back in
January. Listen live on the radio or
online, and as a free download from the station’s audio archives, free for 90
days from broadcast. Thanks to engineer Stan Misraje. Friend me and KPFK 90.7 FM on Facebook.</span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-67984267759712807172013-11-25T17:09:00.000-08:002013-11-25T17:09:17.637-08:00November 27 - novelist Victoria Patterson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight at 8 PM on Bibliocracy, KPFK 90.7 FM: VICTORIA PATTERSON. In her first two books, a short story
collection and a novel, my guest tonight observed, dramatized, sent up the glittering
rotten lives of the grown-ups and children of nouveau riche of Orange County,
California, wielding an elegant ice pick at duplicity and self-reverence, the
too-easy meaningful meaninglessness of the indulged and clueless, yet
simultaneously offered empathy and honest description. Victoria Patterson is the author of the debut
short story collection <i>Drift</i> and a
novel, <i>This Vacant Paradise</i>, two
favorite books about our <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>
place and politics. Now, in her third
book, she offers a fictional version of a lost moment in history, constructs a
revisionist tale, and ---best of all --- explores perspective and the authority
of storytelling – all around the circumstance of women’s participation in the
1928 Olympics, not to mention the struggle against intransigent misogyny and
discrimination against women athletes, period.
<i>The Peerless Four</i> is not only
a sports novel, though the excitement, pain, and physical beauty of competition
is of course thrillingly told. The novel
is also about who tells the story, and whose story is told, and how and why the
teller might indeed be as important as the other characters. Thanks for listening on the radio, or
online. The show is available as a
download, free for 90 days, from the KPFK audio archives. Thanks always to Stan Misraje, engineer.</span> </div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-23036067750070273262013-11-12T19:59:00.000-08:002013-11-12T19:59:44.305-08:00Wednesday, November 13 - novelist Nicholson Baker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night at 8 PM on Bibliocracy Radio, KPFK 90.7 FM
in <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>: <b>NICHOLSON
BAKER</b>. The fictional
poet-anthologist introduced in an earlier and much-acclaimed novel is back in <b>Nicholson Baker</b>’s continuing fictional documentary
self-narration of his life titled, self-consciously and hilariously, <b><i>Traveling
Sprinkler</i></b>. The also wonderfully
named anti-hero Paul Chowder, almost age 55,
hosts his own make-believe public radio show in his car, and behaves,
stubbornly yet as easily as your favorite eccentric next-door neighbor as local
purveyor of a certain kind of charming.
He integrates big ideals and ambitions into the hapless and
tragic-comic. Selfish but humane,
big-hearted yet impulsive, Paul’s response to big problems or issues – the war,
US drones, love – is asymmetrical and kind of nutty, but most of all it allows
him to become and inhabit and exist with the urgency and futility of, not
poetry this time, but song, rhythm, music, beats. Nicholson Baker is the acclaimed author of nine
novels and nonfiction as well, <i>The
Anthologist</i> being the earlier, wildly popular first part of the Paul
Chowder story. It probably does not
matter which you read first, but for sentence-level hilarity, wit, deadpan
existential arias and joy, joy, joy at idiom, detail and the everyday profound
power of words, Nicholson Baker is one of our best. What a great writer. What a cool radio show. You can listen to it on the radio live, or
online and, yes, as a free download on your computer, shoe phone, or traveling
sprinkler anytime you like, as long as it’s in the next 90 days. Thanks for supporting commercial-free
anti-corporate genuine community media. Oh, and if you'd like more of my take on Baker, here's the link to a recent <i>OC Bookly</i> piece: <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/10/nicholson_baker.php">http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/10/nicholson_baker.php</a></span></div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-91647502196494121682013-11-04T15:11:00.000-08:002013-11-04T15:11:16.327-08:00Wednesday, November 6 - Joanna Scutts on Fascist Sympathies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonight at 8 PM Bibliocracy Radio, KFPK 90.7 FM: <b>JOANNA
SCUTTS</b> on Fascist Sympathies. I’m a
longtime reader, fan, and supporter of <i>The
Nation</i> magazine --- no surprise! --- and am grateful and delighted at the
experience of finding an article, review or opinion piece which not only
affirms but teaches me something, provokes, insists its argument into my life,
whether demanding more reading and research, or correcting my own misperception
or --- I’ll be honest --- confirming what I’d understood. All of that happened for this happy reader
after blazing through a long, packed, fun piece by my guest tonight, Joanna
Scutts. Her review, not so much of a single book, but of a genre, inspired and delighted
me with its careful yet urgent framing of the so-called American self-help
movement and its literature, in a historical context and, yes, a political
one. It’s important to be able to
critique the enduring attraction of what seems so obviously a flimsy if
ideologically grounded --- in the worst way --- part of how many citizens seem
to construct a worldview. The article,
which its author will read from, is “Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande," from the August 13 <i>Nation</i>
magazine. Who was Dorothea Brande, and
how is it that so much of the all-American tradition of narcissistic and
pro-capitalist, dog-eat-dog self-improvement literature, Dale to Deepak, emanates
from her arguably right-wing bestseller of 75 years ago, <i>Wake Up and Live!</i>? The writer is Joanna Scutts, freelance reviewer
of book reviews, writer of author profiles, and cultural criticism for <i>The</i> <st1:state w:st="on"><i>Washington</i></st1:state><i> Post, The Nation</i>, <i>The
Wall Street Journal</i>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Los
Angeles</i></st1:place></st1:city><i> Review of Books, and more. </i>She holds a PhD in English and
Comparative Literature from <st1:placename w:st="on">Columbia</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and teaches writing at NYU’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gallatin</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>. This is one of the most fun conversations I've had lately. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online live, or as a free download from the station's archives whenever you like. </div>
Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-2222783392850938772013-10-28T13:45:00.001-07:002013-10-28T13:47:34.299-07:00Wednesday, October 30 - Brenda Stevenson on Latasha Harlins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight on Bibliocracy:
<b>BRENDA STEVENSON</b>. My guest tonight has composed an all-too-real
nonfiction story which transcends only historical analysis, and instead both
taps into our collective memories and perceptions, and challenges them. She is <b>Dr.
Brenda Stevenson</b>, a professor of history at UCLA and the book, in case you
have not yet heard, or read it, is <b><i>The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins</i></b>
from the estimable Oxford University Press.
Mike Davis’s imprimatur means a lot, especially perhaps to smart KPFK
listeners, and his praise for this book – meticulously fair but disturbing ---
just about sums it up. The story of
young Latasha Harlins’ murder and its reverberations in the Southland is plenty
for any historian, but Brenda Stevenson’s writing, ambitious yet accessible,
offers the tragedy in a big, deep, complex --- and its perverse way ---
satisfying sociological take-apart which offers both reasons and responsibility
to its readers. Brenda Stevenson is the
author of <i>Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South</i>,
selected as an Outstanding Book by the <st1:placename w:st="on">Gustavus</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Myers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>
for the Study of Human Rights in <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>
and you’ve heard it a lot on the radio lately as a go-to expert commentator on
the new film “Twelve Years a Slave.” I count myself lucky to welcome her to
Bibliocracy tonight. Thanks for
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Tonight at 8 PM on Bibliocracy Radio, KPFK 90.7 FM: <b>SUZY SORO</b> and <b>BETSY SALKIND</b>, two contributors to <b><i>NO KIDDING: WOMEN WRITERS ON BYPASSING PARENTHOOD</i></b>. In studio, reading and talking about this project, and cracking wise, funny and political, these two writers and performers join me to explore the alternately sincere, sardonic, careful, reckless --- did I say funny? --- and humane perspectives of childless or, if you will, child-free women. A delightful collection of manifestos, meditations, celebrations of independence from the often oppressive social expectations of motherhood, or sometimes just rants, the 37 essays in <i>No Kidding</i> are defenses, confessions and provocations from, among others, <b>Jennifer Coolidge</b>, <b>Margaret Cho</b> and editor <b>Henriette Mantel</b>. The volumes from the the urgently activist and committed Seal Press, which has bolstered women writers for decades. Bestsy Salkind is a writer for television, stand-up comic and author of a desperately mean and hilarious take on Sunday School Bible stories. Comedian, actor and writer Suzy Soro wrote the memoir, <i>Celebrity sTalker: Stories from a Woman Who Thinks Celebrities are Dying to Talk to Her. Only They Aren't</i>. Thanks for listening. Heads up for the fund drive, when the station asks you, no kidding, to pay for the only real alternative community media in Southern California. Listen on the radio or online, and anytime you like as a free download from the KPFK archives.Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913951723611089595.post-12771233648694038552013-09-24T06:28:00.000-07:002013-09-24T06:29:41.156-07:00Wednesday, September 25 - Why Public Higher Ed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night at 8 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California: <b>ROBERT SAMUELS</b>. It's a special public education education night with an expert, who's also in the trenches. Well, no, there aren't any actual trenches but the warfare metaphor - however tired - certainly makes itself useful when you consider - as has my guest, Robert Samuels - the assault on public higher education. In <i>Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free</i>, he explains where the money goes, who profits, the ways in which higher ed has been purposefully underfunded, and how to fix the problems, and help students and promote labor justice, too. In his short, well-argued explanation and critique, the head of my own labor union, University Council - American Federation of Teachers, offers a radical proposal that's only as radical as a re-imagining, to start, of the potential for our higher ed system, one of the best things about our democracy. If you think this is pie in the sky, check out the promise of his subtitle: <i>How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities</i>, and then go right to the chapter titled "Where the Money Goes at Research Universities, and Why Students Don't Complain." Or, yes, read his proposal in Chapter 9, "Making All Public Higher Education Free." Bob Samuels is president of UC-AFT, representing over 3,000 Lecturers and Librarians at the University of California. He's taught at both UCLA and UCSB, and is the author of the blog <i>Changing Universities</i>, as well as a contributor to the <i>Huffington Post</i>. His other books include <i>New Media, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory after Postmodernity</i> and <i>Writing Prejudices: The Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy of Discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison</i>. Thanks for listening, on the radio or online, or as a free download from the station archives.</span>Red Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880087720279597269noreply@blogger.com0