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"I like the vitality of in-studio, roundtable interviews," Gil says, "when you have several authors sitting at the same table and focusing on the same theme, you get real conversations. It’s fun, exciting, and often unpredictable."

On the new Word by Word programs, Gil will be inviting a different guest each month to share their unique perspective on a "Great California Writer."

Gil Mansergh should be familiar to many KRCB listeners. His movie review columns appear in four Sonoma County newspapers, and his Cinema Toast radio show has been a Thursday morning staple on KRSH-FM for seven years. Author or Book Doctor of over 50 books, manuals and curriculums, Gil was honored as a Freelance Success by Writers Digest Magazine. He honed his interview skills during five years as Director of the prestigious California Writers Conference at Asilomar. "I’m excited to have this opportunity to share my conversations with authors with KRCB’s listeners," Gil says, "and I appreciate your comments." This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Daedelus Howell - May 2, 2012
Award-winning print columnist and filmmaker Daedelus Howell joins host Gil Mansergh to launch the humorist's new book “I Heart Sonoma: How to Live and Drink In Wine Country.” So tune in for a light-hearted and slightly off-kilter conversation with a first-class raconteur and Sonoma County wine imbiber named Daedelus Howell.
Adam Johnson - April 4, 2012
On this month's Word By Word, host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with Stanford creative writing professor Adam Johnson, called by Playboy Magazine "one of the nation's most influential and imaginative college professors."

Johnson's captivating novel, The Orphan Master's Son, is set in the clouded reality of North Korea and has received numerous accolades including one from Michiko Kukatani in The New York Times, who called the book "a daring and remarkable novel...that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrafice."
Fiction and Film - March 7, 2012
Word By Word offers two different conversations this month. In the first segment, award-winning novelist Ben Marcus talks with host Gil Mansergh about this controversial new novel, The Flame Alphabet. Set in a linguistically deadly parallel universe where parents are literally dying from the sounds and words uttered by their children, a "Forest Jew" couple makes weekly visits to their private tabernacle hidden in a wooded burrow.

Next, Gil chats about the upcoming Fifth Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (March 30 through April 1) with the Festival's Program Director Jason Perdue and critically acclaimed filmmaker Nancy Kelly. Her documentary, Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives, won the Youth Vision Award by the United Nations Association Film Festival for its moving portrayal of a young woman finding direction, joy and trust in Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project - a theatrical group that creates original plays from members' real life stories.
The Tiger’s Wife - February 1, 2012
Born in Belgrade, and honoring her grandfather’s dying wish that she write using his last name, Tea Obreht's debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, won Britain's Orange Broadband Prize for 2011. Set in a fictional country, Tea describes her book as "a family saga featuring a female narrator and the relationship with her physician grandfather - and death - after all those wars in the Balkans." Originally excerpted in the New Yorker, The Tiger’s Wife quickly topped the bestseller lists.
James Dashner - January 4, 2012
With over a million copies in print, "The Maze Runner Trilogy" is such a success that we are re-broadcasting the conversation Word By Word host Gil Mansergh had with author James Dashner in November 2010, just after the second book "The Scorch Trials" was released. Featuring the exploits of a quick-witted 15-year old named Thomas, who may be destined to save humankind either despite or because of WICKED (which is the chilling acronym for World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department). The third book, "The Death Cure" appeared three months ago, and a new prequel is on tap for release later this year.