Rosemary Manchester interviews Lisa See, and gives listeners an opportunity to hear her discuss her work. Lisa See, a particular favorite of California audiences and author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, has recently published a new novel, Shanghai Girls.

Redwood Writers, the local branch of the California Writers Club, includes many of the emerging writers in the area. The organization, open to all writers, meets monthly and sponsors workshops, conferences, writing classes and seminars. In addition, writers are encouraged to seek ways to publish and market their work. Host Rosemary Manchester talks with members of the Redwood Writers about their writing and discusses their published work.

Rosemary Manchester and Michele Anna Jordan discuss Thomas Hardy, focusing on The Return of the Native and other works.

Rosemary Manchester and Suzanne Lang host a live conversation about literary gifts for holiday giving. In-studio guests review this year's publishing highlights, and we'll take your recommendations of favorite books to give, and the best book you read all year. It's a Literary Salon on the air, and you can wear your pajamas!

A Novel Idea celebrates a bounty of stories and writers with three authors this month. Occidental's ever-astonishing Chester Aaron, has been awarded a 2009 Moonbeam Award in Young Adult Historical Fiction for his recently re-published novel, Gideon, a story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the uprising at the concentration camp of Treblinka.

Stefanie Freele's work has been called "micro fiction" for its clarity and brevity. Sensitive and unruly, sincere and absurd, Stefanie Freele's Finding Strays is a collection of fifty short stories about children, family, relationships, and oysters. Freele is the fiction editor of the Los Angeles Review and an editor of SmokeLong Quarterly.

Writer and photographer, Beth Carpel's "biker book" Assembling Georgia is the story of a Minneapolis chicken-factory worker who begins receiving motorcycle parts through the mail. Who is sending her the parts, why, and how it changes both their lives is at the heart of this twisting tale full of humor and emotional depth.