Holiday Gift Books – December 14, 2014

Continuing an annual tradition, the 2014 holiday gift books edition of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. host Gil Mansergh welcomes back the book buyers from the local Copperfield’s Bookstores, Sheryl Cotleur and Michelle Bellah with their always challenging task of choosing which books to talk about when they …

From the archives: Molly Dwyer – October 12, 2014

Host Gil Mansergh is in Europe for a few weeks, so we are celebrating Halloween a tad bit early with a reprise of a Word by Word conversation with novelist Molly Dwyer and her astounding book, “Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein.” The spooky story travels from the present to the past and recounts the …

SSU Professor Emeritus J. J. Wilson, Jonah Raskin, former Sonoma County Poet Laureate Terry Ehret, and Press Democrat contributor Julie Lee – September 14, 2014

SSU Professor Emeritus J.J. Wilson, joins SSU’s Jonah Raskin, former Sonoma County Poet Laureate, Terry Ehret, and Press Democrat contributor Julie Lee for a conversation with Word By Word host Gil Mansergh about The Sitting Room’s 2014 publication: This is What a Feminist Looks Like. Listeners also get to hear what Feminists sound like?

Sharon Hamilton – August 3, 2014

Learn the spicy secrets hidden between the covers of warmly sensual romance novels as Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh chats with the prolific bestselling writer, Sharon Hamilton. Sharon tells us how she was forced to leave her Sonoma County organic garden and travel to Las Vegas, Tucson, New Orleans and Italy …

William Haigwood – July 6, 2014

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh welcomes the photojournalist and writer William Haigwood whose Journeying the Sixties: A Counterculture Tarot has caused a bit of stir among tarot aficionados and baby-boomers alike. Gil and Bill discuss the history and relevance of Tarot cards, and the impact of the 60’s Counterculture Movement has …

Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo – April 6, 2014

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host, Gil Mansergh welcomes Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo, three talented local writers involved in From Pen to Published, the Redwood Writers Eighth biannual Conference. This eclectic group writes police insider mysteries like Force or Fear, nuclear terrorism thrillers like The Tehran Triangle, kid’s gardening and craft …

March 2, 2014 – Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival; Susanna Solomon

We have a two-segment Word By Word: Conversations With Writers show this month from North Bay Public Media, KRCB FM. Host Gil Mansergh invites you to first meet with the Festival director and two of the filmmakers whose award-winning documentaries will be part of the exciting and still very cool, seventh annual Sebastopol Documentary Film …

February 2, 2014 – Ben Marcus

Host Gil Mansergh has a special treat for our KRCB listening audience, as we welcome the return of the truly original writer Ben Marcus on this Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Regular listeners should recall that Ben took time off from his job as a professor in Columbia …

January 5, 2014 – Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

For the January, 2014 broadcast of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers brothers Joe and David Henry join host Gil Mansergh to talk about their biography, Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him. Joe is a singer songwriter who broke into the business as a Production Associate for Spinal Tap, the iconic …