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Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays by Melissa Matthewson

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Melissa Matthewson, author of the new book Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays from Split Lip Press. Melissa is the author of a collaborative chapbook, (un)learning, with Andrea Beltran from Artifact Press. And her essays have appeared in G... Read more

No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Leland Cheuk, author of the new novel No Good Very Bad Asian, from C&R Press.  No Good Very Bad Asian is Leland’s third work of fiction, following his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, and a collection of short stories, Letters from Dinosa... Read more

SOUL'D

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features SOUL’D: the economics of our black body, a new devised ensemble piece that examines the American Economic Dream for Black Americans. She'll talk with director Damaris Webb (who is also co-director of Vanport Mosaic) and actress Shareen Jacobs who performs i... Read more

The Wrong End of the Table: A mostly Comic Memoir of A Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In

Airs at: Fri, 11/01/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Today on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande interviews Ayser Salman, writer, editor and author of  The Wrong End of the Table:  A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In. In this interview, Ayser Salman traces her unlikely journey from Baghdad t... Read more

Books, Movies, and Terminators, on Film at 11, Friday, 1 November

Airs at: Fri, 11/01/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Book authority Joseph Witt is today's guest to discuss turning novels into films favorite movies, kids films, and Terminator: Dark Fate.   Studio One https://studioonetheaters.com/ Motherless Brooklyn Harriet   Laurelhurst    https://www.laurelhursttheater.com/   ... Read more

HALLOWEEN Special Cliff and Ivy Silence from Alaska/Dream Wulf

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 11/01/2019 at 12:00am
  Cliff and Ivy Silence from Anchorage Alaska are joining us in the KBOO Studios to perform LIVE and to promote and give away tickets to the goth festival they are playing in INTO THE SHADOWS "World of Goth Magazine Winter 2019" From Alaska's only goth band to World Goth... Read more

The Unipiper & Weird Portland United

Airs at: Wed, 10/30/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only, Radiozine
The Unipiper, celebrated as the city’s Mascot of Weird, is Brian Kidd's alter ego.  This Portland persona rides through the city on a unicycle while wearing a Darth Vader mask and playing bagpipes that shoot fire.  The performance reliably leaves dumbfounded bystanders mout... Read more

Buscando America on 10/29/19

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Especial sobre el estallido social en Chile con la opinión y denuncia de los artistas chilenos Valentina Peralta y Elias Escafi. En Krónicas de Viaje un recuento de lo sucedido a diez días de haberse iniciado un levantamiento multitudinario contra el gobierno de Sebastián P... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Portland Book Festival 2019

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
For many of us here in Portland, the colder, wetter days of Fall mark the start of perfect reading weather. And there’s no better way to kick off the season than the city’s biggest literary event of the year, the Portland Book Festival. The annual Festival, organized by th... Read more

Germán Bringas, Ariel Guzik, Marcos Miranda

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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