Word by Word Podcast
Gil Mansergh’s SeptemberWord By Word conversation is with Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest, the bestselling novel of a near future, and the soon to be released Still Time, a novel about a Shakespeare scholar with alzheimers. Long time listens may recall that Jean joined novelist Greg Sarris on Gil’s very first Word By …
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Charles Markee & Waights Taylor This month’s Word By Word guests have written novels set in distinctive times and places. As he did in his first detective novel, Kiss of Salvation, Waights Taylor takes us back to 1948 in the segregated Birmingham, Alabama worlds of detective partners Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker in Touch of …
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Revisiting Lisa See. Last month’s Word By Word conversation was with the talented graphic artists Maia Kobabe and Trinidad Escobar who shared verbal descriptions of Maia’s lushly illustrated comics The Thief’s Tale, and her award-winning Tom O’Bedlam, and Trinidad’s biomythography, Crushed which explores the interior landscape of her experience as a magikal, transnational Filipino adoptee. …
Trinidad Escobar and Maia Kobabe are two talented artists and writers with MA degrees in “Comics” from the California College of Arts, who create distinctively different comic books and graphic novels. This is a very visual medium so you may want to accompany today’s conversation by viewing some of the comics online. Maia has shared …
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This month’s guests on the Word By Word: Conversations With Writers are from the upcoming “Pen to Published—Redwood Writers Conference,” which will be held at the Santa Rosa Flamingo Hotel on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The conference co-chairs William Haigwood and Robbi Sommers Bryant join host Gil Mansergh, along with the poet/writer Fran Claggett who …
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Today’s Word By Word broadcast begins with an Irish toast befitting this weekend’s weather: May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. Today’s guests represent the Ninth Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (SDFF) which opens on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday Evening, March 17th and runs through Sunday …
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Word By Word host Gil Mansergh wishes every one a Happy Gothic Valentines Day by welcoming Sonoma State’s newest professor of creative writing, Stefan Kiesbye. Born in Germany, and with an MFA from the University of Michigan, Stefan’s books prompted Die Welt to write that he “is the inventor or the modern German Gothic novel.” …
This month’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers was prompted by Diane Peterson’s recent Press Democrat article about the collaboration between Redwood Writers and Copperfield’s Bookstores. Entitled the “Redwood Author Spotlight,” six local novelists will conduct readings and discussions about their novels on the last Thursday evenings from January through June at the Copperfield’s Montgomery …
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With a loud, “Ho, Ho, Ho!” host Gil Mansergh, welcomes listeners to our 2015 holiday gift books edition of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers. He asks: “What do bird portraits, The Golden Gate Bridge, dining in the Yucatan, an illustrated Harry Potter book, carved Viking ivory chessman and a roadtrip with Gloria Steinem that …
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Award-winning novelist Elizabeth George is creator of the bestselling Inspector Lynley mysteries. George introduces listeners to A Banquet of Consequences, the19th book in the series. Since many readers first encountered Scotland Yard’s dapper Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his down-to-earth partner, Sergeant Barbara Havers on PBS’ British produced Masterpiece Mystery TV shows on KRCB Channel …