Fiction

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Interview with James Conroyd Martin

Airs at: Thu, 09/18/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
    Tune in Thursday, September 18th, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm,  for an interview with award-winning author James Conroyd Martin. Jim is the author of The Poland Trilogy, a multigenerational family saga set in 19th-century Poland, as well as Fortune's Child and Too Soon th... Read more

Previewing the 2025 Portland Writers Picnic

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
Portland is blessed with an incredible literary community. Could be for a wealth of reasons -- our independent book stores, the perfect-for-reading weather, the world-class coffee, and annual traditions like the Portland Book Festival. All attractive for those engaged in... Read more

NW-MOCA and Bill Plympton

Airs at: Thu, 08/28/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now a group of artists and academics is fixing to open a cartoon arts museum in downtown Portland.  We'll talk with Dr Mike Rosen, Board Chair of the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, along with award-winn... Read more

Mo Daviau, author of the new novel Epic and Lovely

Airs at: Thu, 08/28/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Mo Daviau, author of the new novel Epic and Lovely, from West Virginia University Press. Mo’s debut novel Every Anxious Wave was a finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Award. She’s also a solo performer, having appeared at storytelling shows s... Read more

Enjoying Summertime

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunto returns to help fill your Monday afternoon. Featured today will be another adventure with Orson Welles as Harry Lime. In today's episode Harry gets involved with a bank robbery in Budapest in a story called Too Many Crooks. Also lots of summertime musc will be d... Read more

The Phantom Of The Subway by Cornell Woolrich

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Katherine Dunn reads a suspence story set in the New York subways by Cornell Woolrich, Originally published in a 1936 issue of Argosy Magazine under the title"You Pays Your Nickel". Later reprinted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as "The Phantom Of the Subway" in 1983. ... Read more

Double Feature

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/19/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Two stories tonight. First up, Katherine Dunn reads a suspence story set in the New York subways by Cornell Woolrich, Originally published in a 1936 issue of Argosy Magazine under the title"You Pays Your Nickel".Later reprinted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as "The Ph... Read more

Carol Lay - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 08/14/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Carol Lay has been creating comics — both alternative and mainstream — since the 1980’s.  She’s a writer, illustrator, painter, and animator whose work ranges from surrealist canvases to Wonder Woman story arcs.  Her weekly comic Story Minute ran in newspapers for twe... Read more

God and Sex with author/screenwriter Jon Raymond

Airs at: Thu, 08/14/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode we welcome Jon Raymond, author of the new novel God and Sex, from Simon & Schuster. Jon is the author of five works of fiction, including the Oregon Book Award–winning story collection Livability and the novels The Half Life, Rain Dragon, Freebird, an... Read more

The Man With The Twisted Lip by Sr Arthur Conan Doyle

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2025 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Among the orginal 12 stories first published by The Strand Magazine. After the success of his first two novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle had been approched by this new magazine to serialize his next novel. Instead, he would submit 12 short stories. Which wer... Read more