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Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.

  1. Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival”

    OCT 22

    Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival”

    A program celebrating a long-ago artist and writer whose work I am curating at an upcoming gallery show. Today I read his self-published book, Aliso Creek, a singular and defining introduction to the work of Peter Carr (1925-1981) and invite listeners to visit the late October show I am helping curate at Cerritos College Art Gallery.

    29 min
  2. Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy

    OCT 15

    Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy

    My guest is Jackie Wu, who worked for the Orange County Registrar of Voters. She's written a firsthand account titled On the Front Lines of Democracy: An Election Official’s Story of Protecting the Vote in 2020. It's an insider’s account of administering, defending, and advocating for one of the nation’s best voting systems.

    29 min
  3. Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California

    OCT 1

    Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California

    I attended the recent launch party reading celebrating the arrival of a must-read, must-own anthology. Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California is out from the new collaborative publisher Angel City Press at the Los Angeles Public Library. It includes essays which write and rewrite stories and experiences of California with a range of writers.

    30 min
  4. Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard

    SEP 25

    Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard

    Today, my guest is Larry Beinhart, perhaps best known for a novel adapted into the film Wag the Dog (American Hero) but today talking about and reading from Salvation Boulevard. It’s both a detective story and a novel of big ideas, about “faith” and skepticism, a murder mystery with philosophical chops.

    29 min
  5. Victoria Patterson on Drift

    SEP 19

    Victoria Patterson on Drift

    Today, my 2009 interview with Victoria Patterson on her debut book, Drift, a defining —- for the author and her hometown, Newport Beach —- short story collection from and about Orange County, California. This is where it started for the writer Victoria Patterson, who with Drift was a finalist for the California Book Award, the 2009 Story Prize, with Drift selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The San Francisco Chronicle. Since then she’s written the novel The Little Brother and a...

    29 min
  6. Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North

    SEP 10

    Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North

    Today, my 2010 interview with Luis Alberto Urrea on his smart, funny, sincerely moving Into the Beautiful North, a comic and woman-centered take on the classic film The Magnificent Seven by way of a border adventure story with a twist. It’s a sort of alternative version of his award-winning nonfiction classic The Devil’s Highway but with a light, humorous, humane touch.

    29 min
  7. Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This

    SEP 5

    Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This

    Today, my 2009 interview with Dylan Landis on her debut novel-in-stories, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, a singularly poignant, tough and smart coming-of-age novel set in 1970s New York City. This is a good one, folks.

    29 min
  8. Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process

    AUG 26

    Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process

    My guest this week is short story writer Mary Jones. She has written and published dozens of short stories for many years, earning acclaim, and establishing a reputation, all of which is affirmed in her debut collection, 28 short stories, titled The Goodbye Process. The short and short-short stories offered in The Goodbye Process are dark, funny, meditative, often initially realistic episodes which necessarily and logically enter the comically, tragically absurd via empathetic and artful fabl...

    30 min
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Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.

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