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Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/16/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
For the Halloween season, Fortunato reads an Eerie Classic by Howard Philip Lovercraft, Pickman's Model. What is the secret behind the ghoulish and disturbing paintings of Richard Pickman, which have been scandalizing the Boston art scene of the 1920s? Read more

Fox & American Fictionary

Airs at: Thu, 10/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist Susan Sontag called a "writer to follow and cherish," has been living in exile in Amsterdam since the Yugoslav wars of the early 90s.  Labeled a traitor and a witch when she vocally critiqued the rising ethno-nationalism of both ... Read more

Movies at the Airport

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  Visitors to Portland International Airport can now enjoy short films by Oregon-based directors, thanks to the new Micro-Cinema on Concourse C which features local programming 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  Hollywood Theatre Executive Director Doug Whyte brings us into... Read more

Nora Webster: A Novel by Colm Tóibín

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Colm Tóibín’s novel, Nora Webster (2014). Read more

LGBT Books to Prisoners, and author Robert Glück

Airs at: Tue, 09/25/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Today's Preference:    We'll be spending time today with Cabell Gathman (PhD, Sociology), an organizer of LGBT Books to Prisoners. LGBT Books to Prisoners is "a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization based in Madison, WI that sends books and other educational materia... Read more

Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Moschovakis is in search of a way of presenting a woman’s life that is not expressed solely through family and bonds with others—that rebuffs inherited conventions while acknowledging that women are still labouring their way through the mare’s nest chaotically erected b... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 24, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments: Bill Resnick talks with Guy Berliner and Bevan Byrnes of the Brooklyn Action Corps about air quality in Portland and the Sept 26th Town Hall on diesel pollution (7pm Sacred Heart Church, 3910 SE 11th). Desi... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Elliot Reed

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
When you think of famous literary adolescents, the characters Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield come immediately to mind. The most recent addition to this distinguished lineage is young William Tyce, growing up near a river in the rural Midwest, without a mother or father. Wi... Read more

Membership Drive Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato and Just Jess present more crazy fun with music, cartoon and movie reviews and more adventures of Commander Corey and the Space Patrol on Planet X. Read more

The Warlord Of Saturn's Moons and Colony

Airs at: Mon, 09/17/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We begin tonight with a reairing of a short story by Eleanor Arneson, The Warlord of Saturn's Moons. Read by Professor Kitty. Also on tonight's program, more science fiction with be a classic radio drama adapted from the short story The Veldt, by Ray Bradbury. Read more