by Pat Rodgers | Dec 18, 2022 | Homepage
KPTZ is thrilled to ring in the New Year with Grace Love! performing at the Palindrome on Saturday, December 31 at 9pm, for an intimate set with dance party to follow, and a champagne toast at midnight. KPTZ listeners can enter a ticket giveaway to win a pair of Grace...
by Pat Rodgers | Dec 6, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: December 6, 2022) Cris invites Diane Urbani de la Paz into the studio to talk about her personal history All My Love, a story of Love and War, set during World War II. This book was inspired by 430 letters written by Don Lusk to his bride Anne. Letters...
by Pat Rodgers | Nov 8, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: November 8, 2022) Cris talks to Portland author Willy Vautin about his novels and his music! WIlly writes about real life both gritty and hopeful. His latest novel noir, The Night Always Comes, is set in Portland and is so of the moment in our country it...
by Pat Rodgers | Oct 11, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: October 11, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews author Jasmin Faulk Dickerson about her memoir The Last Sandstorm. Jasmin is a writer, speaker, and cultural identity advocate. She draws motivation from her personal story to educate and promote social justice and...
by Pat Rodgers | Aug 3, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: August 2, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews author, poet and founding editor of Empty Bowl Press Michael Daley. They talk about his novel Telemachus, a father/ son relationship search and coming of age book set partially in Port Townsend. The son is an artist and...
by Pat Rodgers | Jul 6, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: July 5, 2022) Jonathan Evison has been assessing America through novels about working-class folks — home health aides, lawn workers. His 2011 novel West of Here seems most in companionship with his latest, Small World. Both are sprawling sagas with dual...
by Pat Rodgers | Jun 7, 2022 | Booklovers' Cafe, Homepage, Podcasts
(Airdate: June 7, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews community member Seb Eggert about his father Charle Eggert’s memoir The Last Canyon Voyage: A Filmmaker’s Journey Down the Green and Colorado River detailing his 1955 expedition to duplicate the 1870s journey...