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July 31, 2020
Risky authors play with form and defy easy description and this is the case with two authors who through their radical storytelling take us on a good ride, but with something sound and poignant underlying. The Seep is an alien life form that comes to inhabit humanity in Chana Porter’s…
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July 03, 2020
Food and family sustain us, especially during trying times. We celebrate this with two award-winning authors in conversation with Suzanne M. Lang. Meera Ekkanath Klein has just released “Seeing Ceremony -A Novel in Recipes”, a follow-up to “My Mother’s Kitchen -A Novel in Recipes”, both coming of…
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June 05, 2020
Our stories are important. It is our stories that connect us. So says Caitlin Hamilton Summie, author of To Lay to Rest our Ghosts, a remarkable and moving collection of 10 stories that reveal the complexity of our families and relationships, and the influence of place -all with finely rendered…
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May 29, 2020
White people kill black people. Despite Emancipation, despite the Civil Rights movement of now over fifty years ago, white people still kill African Americans in cold blood. In 1919 in the state of Arkansas in the fertile area of the Mississippi River, in a town called Elaine over the course of a…
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May 01, 2020
Suzanne M. Lang welcomes Barbara L. Baer in conversation on her latest novel, The Ice Palace Waltz, the multi-generational saga of two Jewish immigrant families—the western pioneers of Leadville Colorado and the smooth ‘our crowd’ New Yorkers, who come together amid the financial and social turmoil…
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April 03, 2020
Namwali Serpell, is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley and a well-published cultural critic who has now released an epic novel of Zambia; it is sweeping in scope, wildly imaginative, and grounded in the place along the Zambezi River called The Old Drift Suzanne M. Lang talks with Namwali about it…
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Mar 27, 2020
Suzanne M. Lang talks with two authors whose novels reflect on gender and family, race and ethnicity, and the effects of heritage on American culture…
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Feb 29, 2020
Try to Get Lost! We continue celebrating the work of Joan Frank. We recently featured her book of four novellas, Where You’re All Going. Now we…
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Jan 31, 2020
This week on A Novel Idea, richly drawn characters, vivid language, and compelling pace and story create the most satisfying literary experience for…
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Jan 03, 2020
Death and dementia aren’t all that funny, but really, sometimes they are, especially when we open ourselves up to the conversation. Journalist Susan…
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Dec 27, 2019
On this final week of this last month of the decade, we bring you two favorite conversations of this past year. Both people’s courage, tenacity, and…
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Nov 29, 2019
#MeAsWell , a novel by Peter Mehlman takes on gender politics, race, and the ubiquitous control of Social Media on our lives. Mehlman was a sports…
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Nov 01, 2019
Roberto Tejada’s Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness is expansive in its range: from accounts of conquistador castaway Cabeza de Vaca, to the media…
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Oct 04, 2019
ReInvention! Amy Edwards does it, again and again. From Austin, Texas, Edwards is a musician, hosts a podcast, and now is a novelist with the…
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Sep 27, 2019
Dark Day, Dark Night is Jonah Raskin's sequel to Dark Land, Dark Mirror, where we were first introduced to Private Investigator, or an Op as she…
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Aug 30, 2019
The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Heard of it? Maybe not, but I guarantee, you’re living in it. Technology and artificial intelligence, genomics and…
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Aug 02, 2019
Hummingbird in Underworld, Teaching in a Men’s Prison is poet Deborah Tobola’s memoir of working in the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo…
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Jul 05, 2019
Bones of the Earth is the tenth installment in the Inspector Shan mystery series by award winning author Eliot Pattison, whose interest in Tibet and…
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May 30, 2019
The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family as their wealth declines, examining “not just a privileged American family,…
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May 01, 2019
Mother’s always take their children somewhere in life and on the planet. Dena Moes traveled with her two daughters and husband on a journey of…
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Apr 02, 2019
Suzanne M. Lang visits with two Sonoma County writers who bring us their stories of moving beyond adversity.
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Feb 28, 2019
Author and independent historian Michael Morey’s book, Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War, unpacks American…
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Jan 31, 2019
At age twenty-one, while studying music abroad, Carol Rosenberger was struck with polio resulting in paralysis of the very muscles she needed to play…
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Jan 03, 2019
Barbara L. Baer, publisher of Floreant Press and author of two previous novels joins Suzanne M.
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Dec 26, 2018
Love, Hate, & Other Filters is Samira Ahmed’s novel of a young Muslim American woman finding her way through contemporary cultural challenges.
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Oct 31, 2018
This moment in history, in culture, in our election cycle demands truth and craves heroes.
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Oct 09, 2018
Seaweed. It plays a vital role in ocean ecology, and also in our health and diet, and in our local and global economies.
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Sep 26, 2018
Gregory Crouch joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on his epic western history of California wealth and the Comstock Lode, bringing focus to one of…
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Aug 29, 2018
Suzanne Lang speaks with author Cynthia Lim, whose book Wherever You Are, A Memoir of Love, Marriage, and Brain Injury is an odyssey through loss and…
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Aug 02, 2018
Jonah Raskin has a large and ranging body of non-fiction books and articles and now has come out with a detective fiction of a different order, Dark…
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Jul 28, 2018
San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore, the landmark independent bookstore founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D.
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Jun 28, 2018
A timely encore presentation of Rosemary Manchester in conversation with Brad Herzog, collaborator on Carolyn Goodman’s memoir, My Mantelpiece: a…
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Jun 07, 2018
From Homer to Harry Potter, literary critic and philosopher Martin Puchner takes the reader on an epic journey through the history of literature, and…
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May 15, 2018
It’s all about food. Suzanne Lang talks with Adam Federman on his book Fasting and Feasting, the Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray.
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May 15, 2018
To celebrate the release of Bruce Holbert’s third novel, Whiskey, here is a reprise of two previous conversations between Bruce and Suzanne M Lang on…
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Mar 01, 2018
Suzanne Lang talks with two of the world's most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
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Feb 01, 2018
Two California writers who both had long non-literary careers before publishing these heralded first works join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation.…
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Jan 04, 2018
Emerging from the economic consulting and the tech sector, Jaime B. Hansen aims to inspire and empower women through videos, speaking and speaking…
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Dec 27, 2017
History, culture, and strong women are at the core of the two novels, The History Makers by Val Bodurtha and The Ballet Lover by Barbara Baer; these…
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Nov 28, 2017
This month on A Novel Idea: Featured are two novelists whose books hit big this year. Fierce Kingdom is a thriller of a book by Gin Phillips, which…
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Sep 27, 2017
Top intellectual property and entertainment lawyer Peter Afrasiabi joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on his recent book Burning Bridges, America’s…
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Aug 30, 2017
Historical fiction radiates into the present with two novels featured on A Novel Idea.
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Jul 26, 2017
July 30th on A Novel Idea: Suzanne M. Lang talks with Thais Nye Derich about her path of self-examination and learning to discover that she, like…
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Jun 28, 2017
Neo-noir and crime fiction with Suzanne Lang in conversation with Daniel Pyne, screenwriter, show runner of Amazon’s hit drama Bosch, and author…
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May 31, 2017
For June, A Novel Idea features two novelists, whose books couldn’t be more different.
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Feb 28, 2017
A Novel Idea with Suzanne M. Lang features Jessica Teich with her memoir The Future Tense of Joy. A Rhodes Scholar, Teich happens upon an obituary of…
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Feb 02, 2017
This month on A Novel Idea: Elite North Koreans struggle to protect themselves and their families in the face of a paraonoid, tyrannical regime in…
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