Gil Mansergh launches his second decade as the host of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers chatting with the international bestselling novelist Jane Green about her newest novel The Sunshine Sisters. Jane Green is considered to be one of the founding authors of the “chick lit.” genre. Her 1997 first novel Straight Talking made her …
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10 years of Word: Conversations With Writers – June 11, 2017
This is a once-in-a-decade, retrospective look back at the last 10 years of Word: Conversations With Writers broadcasts with host Gil Mansergh. The first half hour features clips by novelists and writing professors Greg Sarris and Jean Hegland, SF literary agents Michael Larson and Elizabeth Pomada, Jamaican-born novelist Margaret Cezair Thompson, and Sebastopol childrens authors …
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Megan Miranda – May 14, 2017
Gil Mansergh welcomes Megan Miranda, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls to Word By Word for a spirited conversation about Megan’s second novel of psychological suspense, The Perfect Stranger.
Eric Puchner – April 9, 2017
Gil Mansergh welcomes the celebrated novelist and master of the short story, Eric Puchner as his guest on KRCB-FM’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers show. Professor of writing seminars at Johns Hopkins, Eric includes nine stories in his Last Day On Earth collection—each falling into distincively different categories from coming-of-age to science fiction to …
Yi Yun Li – March 12, 2017
This month’s guest is McArthur Genius Grant winner, Yiyun Li talking about her memoir Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life. Born and raised in China, Yi’s parents were victims of the cultural revolution but still encouraged their daughter to succeed in anything she chose to do. And succeed she …
Joshua Mohr – February 12, 2017
For February’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh welcomes the award-winning novelist and writing teacher, Joshua Mohr, whose literary memoir Sirens has just been released. Joshua’s five novels are populated with word-pictures of individuals addicted to booze and drugs and alternative realities. His work has earned accolades including one of O Magazine’s …
Patricia V. Davis, Jo-Anne Rosen – January 8, 2017
Word By Word is fortunate to greet the New Year with two writers featured in an upcoming collaboration entitled Copperfields’ Presents: Redwood Writers Fiction 2017. Starting January 24th and every fourth Tuesday for the following six months, talented writers will share readings from their books from 6:00 to 7:00 at the Montgomery Village Copperfields’ Bookstore. …
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2016 Holiday Gift Books – December 11, 2016
Continuing a seven-year KRCB-FM seasonal tradition, with a hearty “Ho, Ho, Ho!” Word By Word host Gil Mansergh, welcomes Copperfield’s Books buyers Sheryl Cutler and Michelle Bellah to share their carefully considered suggestions for 2016 holiday gift books. Incorporating one deft seque after another, the trio share comments from THE SECRET HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS, …
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“Movies as Teaching Tools” – November 13, 2016
“Movies as Teaching Tools” is the focus on November’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Today’s guest is SRJC media studies instructor and interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani, author of Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation, and since host Gil Mansergh is a syndicated film columnist who uses …
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David Kugler – October 9, 2016
Star Wars, Native American myths, and war-torn Japan during the time when Lord Oda was Shogun are just a few few of the fascinatingly diverse topics Gil Mansergh examines in this Word By Word conversation with actor, novelist, editor and educator David Kugler. David shares excerpts from and writing secrets regarding his newly released young …