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This episode of KRCB’s A Novel Idea is an “encore” presentation of a favorite broadcast, originally broadcast in 2010, featuring Andre Codrescu and hosted by Monte Rio sage, Pat Nolan; it’s

This week, Jennifer Branham-Burns, co-owner of Laguna Farms in Sebastopol, talks about spring crops, year-round challenges and the county’s largest and longest running CSA program. Mouthful: Smart Talk About Food, Wine,

If you missed some of last weekend’s signature events because of the heat, tune in to Mouthful Sunday evening at 6, when Jennifer Harris of the Fermentation Festival and producers of

Jennifer Manocherian’s book is Alpha Bette, sort of the opposite of a coming of age story. It takes place over the course of a single day and is centered around a 95  year old widow, Bette Gartner, who wakes up one morning in her New York City apartment and decides to throw a dinner party that evening, with a surprising guest list. Manocherian, who has produced Broadway plays, written books for a couple of musicals, and has produced and written for film, joins Suzanne Lang in conversation to talk about this, her first Novel, Alpha Bette.

Suzanne also talks with Jude Berman, who has spent the last 30 years supporting other writers as a coach, editor, and ghostwriter, and now has a slew of novels coming out which include, The Die, a utopian techno-thriller set in the near future that folds in ancient wisdom from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.

It’s A Novel Idea with Suzanne M. Lang. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. 

Just when you think there is nothing new under the sun, along come Jeremy Nusser and Amanda Dunker, founders of Avalow, with an innovative way to garden that will keep your

Listeners to Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh wants listeners to know they have a great opportunity to hear two conversations with award-winning advocates for radical forms of

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 a fellow Rhodes Scholar

Members of Congregation Shomrei Torah talk about Sonoma
County’s first annual Jewish Food Festival, coming up on August 19. Mmmm, lox, corned beef and rugelah!

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This week on Mouthful, farmer Jill Adams talks about her Oyster Creek Mushroom stall at the Sebastopol Farmers Market, reminisces about Crescent Moon Farm and her years farming around the world

Suzanne Lang talks with philanthropist, motivational speaker, and author Jillian Haslam on her memoir A Voice Out of Poverty. Haslam grew up in India amongst the poorest of the poor, for a time living with her family under a cement stairwell; she miraculously emerged to work in international banking and has founded educational and vocational organizations to give a hand up to those who still struggle.

Also featured is long time NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, musing on his life and past and the state of the world.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, September 29^th at 10am  PT on KRCB FM 104.9, streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.

This week, a look at the Livestock Conservancy with Duck Man Jim Reichardt of Liberty Duck and several others preparing for the Livestock Conservancy event coming up on Nov. 7 at

Try to Get Lost! We continue celebrating the work ofJoan Frank. We recently featured her book of four novellas, Where You’reAll

Northern California writer Joan Frank is a woman who quotes Dorothy Parker with ease and whose conversations are as good as her books. Joan’s published her third book of 2020; The Outlook for Earthlings is a stunning work of prose and an insightful look into lives over time and experience. Joan Frank joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation.

A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

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This week on A Novel Idea, richly drawn characters, vivid language, and compelling pace and story create the most satisfying

On KRCB’s A Novel Idea, two authors at the top of their form —Joan Frank, with her novel All the News I Need, and Richard Alther and his book Roxie &

Nonfiction that reads like a novel, and a novel steeped in modern California history are approached by Suzanne M Lang in conversation with Joanna FitzPatrick and Jeanne Baker Guy.

FitzPatrick’s novel, The Artist Colony is a murder mystery set at a women’s art colony in the dynamic environment of 1924 Carmel-by-the Sea. Though a work of fiction, it vividly paints the weather and landscape of the area, that has so inspired artists, and is set in the early Twentieth Century, when women, who just got the vote, were struggling to be taken seriously as artists.

Jeanne Baker Guy has produced a memoir of a time in her life when her ex-husband kidnapped their two children; the story of her struggle to locate them and bring them home is the story of You’ll Never Find Us. Both books are published by She Writes Press.

The state of California is planning for a minimum wage hiketo 15-dollars an hour. But it won’t fully take effect

Mouthful explores what it means to truly be committed to local ingredients with chef Joe Rueter of the Green Grocer moveable restaurant. Rueter is passionate about his commitment and willing to

Mouthful welcome Joel Peterson, king of all-things zinfandel. A highly entertaining storyteller as well as a phenomenal winemaker, Joel will talk about the history and future of this classic California varietal

This archive episode revisits a 2014 interview with chef John Ash discussing his newest book, Culinary Birds, which went on to win several awards that year. This year, John Ash &

This week, the beloved John Ash returns to Mouthful to talk about his brand new book, COOKING WILD: More Than 150 Recipes for Eating Close to Nature.

Host: Michele Anna Jordan

Chef John Ash returns to Mouthful to discuss his brand new book, Culinary Birds: The Ultimate Poultry Cookbook, just published by Running Press.

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In this encore presentation, the beloved John Ash returns to Mouthful to talk about his brand new book, COOKING WILD: More Than 150 Recipes for Eating Close to Nature. (Originally aired

It’s been a great year for John Ash. His newest book, Culinary Birds, received a prestigious James Beard Award. He was just named as a Pathfinder Finalist in the Sustainability Awards

John Beck, long-time staff writer at the Press Democrat, current freelance writer and filmmaker talks about his most recent documentary, Harvest, a look at five family-owned wineries, their hidden-in-plain-sight nighttime harvest

Mouthful welcomes John Toulze, executive chef of The Girl & the Fig and
Estate of Sonoma and The Fig Cafe of Glen Ellen, and talks about the gardens that provide produce

Mouthful’s 25th-anniversary show features four local restaurateurs discussing how they are handling COVID 19 restrictions. Host Michele Anna Jordan recalls Mouthful’s first episode and waxes poetic about how we might all celebrate Election Day with, yes, BUBBLES!

Mouthful: Smart Talk About Food, Wine, and Farming in the North Bay and Beyond can be heard Sunday evenings at 6:00 pm on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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“Radio saved me.” Brandon J McDermott grew up pretending to be a baseball announcer and ranking all the songs he knew said just this about himself: “radio saved me.”  McDermott, a successful NPR broadcaster in Lincoln, Nebraska, is local host of NPR’s “Morning Edition” and news reporter at NET, Nebraska’s PBS & NPR Stations. He’s just received a national award from the Radio Television Digital News Association and National Endowment for Financial Education, the 2020 Personal Finance Reporting Award for his story “Nebraska Schools Tackle Financial Literacy."

Brandon’s life, however, hasn’t always been so focused and productive. His boyhood years were troubled and troubling. His parents were not equipped with parenting skills and subjected Brandon to emotional and physical abuse that no child should experience, but unfortunately many have. Brandon J McDermott tells his story in Abandon Brandon, A memoir.  Along with being a broadcaster, Brandon is an advocate for stepping out of the silence of shame. It has been a key element in his own transformation. Join Suzanne M Lang in conversation with Brandon J McDermott, Sunday, December 6th at 10am PT. Broadcasting at 90.9 and 91.1 and streaming at Radio (norcalpublicmedia.org).

A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

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 Land, Dark Mirror.

Dark Day, Dark Night is Jonah Raskin’s sequel to Dark Land,Dark Mirror, where we were

This encore presentation features Rosemary Manchester in conversation with Jonah Raskin on his book James McGrath: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary American Teacher, Mentor, Cultural Ambassador, and Pedagogical Pilgrim:

Prolific author and curious man, Jonah Raskin joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on his book A Terrible Beauty: the Wilderness of American Literature, which examines American literature through the lens

Also featured is Judith Berlowitz with her historical fiction, Home So Far Away. It's an epic story set during the Spanish Civil War.

Suzanne Lang hosts A Novel Idea, first and fifth Sundays at 10am. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.

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

Death and dementia aren’t all that funny, but really,sometimes they are, especially when we open

One of the democratic presidential candidates stopped by ourstudio to talk about affordable housing, student debt and other issues beingdiscussed on the national stage.

Julian Castro served as the Secretary of

Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to a mysterious “Breakfast Serial*” broadcast of Word By Word where the conversation is with four of the 14 writers for the Sonoma Squares Red Harvest

Join Gil Mansergh in conversation with two local entrepreneurs and writers: Bonnie Harvey, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Barefoot Cellars for 20 years and the co-author of the business adventure story, The

Following up on last week’s topic, Mouthful again looks at Food Runners, this time with a close-up exploration of a new local chapter, Sonoma Food Runners. June Michaels, founder of Sonoma

Jura Margulis in Concert
Petaluma Historical Library and Museum
Friday, May 25th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Jura is a world-renowned virtuoso pianist who is currently based at the

Northern California residents can now join the efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Kaiser Permanente began recruiting participants for

May is Mental Health Month. So, this week we bring you two reports on possible progress as families seek answers about needed improvements in mental health care from giant insurer Kaiser