Marrie Stone interviews L.A. Times 2008 Book Award Winner Zoe Ferraris, author of Finding Nouf: A Novel, winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Dennis Palumbo, author of From Crime to Crime.
To see all L.A Times 2008 Book Award winners, click here. Congratulations Zoe!
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Renegades, during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at University of California, Irvine. Download audio.
It's a tad embarrassing (embarrassing because I'm more used to being behind the scenes. After all, no one can see you on radio), but some of you may be interested in this piece. (Scan to the bottom for the copy.) It's a nice mention by Orange Coast, which has become a readable magazine again, now that Marty Smith is back at the helm.
Brian Barrett provides Writers on Writing's mid-show break song "Come Back Baby".
See a rendition performed live.
"I'll Close My Eyes" by Dinah Washington starts the show and Etta James closes it with "I'd Rather Go Blind." Lots of eyes in the songs ... so true.