Mary Jo McConahay and Kate McElwee on A Novel Idea (Aired: June 4, 2023)
Suzanne Lang talks with prize-winning journalist Mary Jo McConahay on her book Playing God, American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right, which reveals the big money, unholy alliances, and far right agendas held by a faction of American Catholic Bishops.
Suzanne also talks with Kate McElwee, Executive Director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, a grassroots-driven movement that promotes activism and dialogue to call for women's ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church.
It’s A Novel Idea, every first, third, and fifth Sunday on KRCB 104.9.
Suzanne Lang talks with author Shelley Blanton-Stroud on the craft of writing and her latest novel, An Unlikely Prospect, set in the San Francisco publishing world near the close of WWII. Also featured is Suzanne’s conversation with Marilyn J. Zimmerman on her legal thriller, In Defense of Good…
Suzanne Lang talks with Laurel Munson Boyers on her book Across Yosemite’s Wilderness, a Trailblazing Woman’s Career Protecting the Park’s Backcountry. Also featured is Stanley A. Rice about Forgotten Landscapes, How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What we Can Learn From…
Suzanne Lang talks with artist Stephen P. Huyler, who has traveled India for just about half a century and through photographs and capturing material objects, he highlights the culture of the subcontinent; his memoir is India, a Life. Suzanne also talks with Poet Laureate emerita Olive Senior on…
At midlife, equestrian Tik Maynard embarks on a life journey when he prepares to compete in “Road to the Horse”, a competition to start an untamed horse over three days. Tik joins Suzanne Lang on this experience and his memoir Starting in the Middle, How Horses, Those Who Study Them, and 265…
Suzanne Lang talks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of Oprah Book Club read The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, on her latest book of family, legacy, and being who you are, Misbehaving at the Crossroads, Essays & Writings. Child of Earth and Starry Heaven is L. Annette Binder’s meditation on her…
Literature and reading as healers. Suzanne Lang talks with Bibliotherapist Emely Rumble, LCSW, about this practice and her book Bibliotherapy In The Bronx. Books are a way into who we are. Also featured is Susan Church-Downer, former owner of the Santa Rosa restaurant, Gaia’s Garden, who shares her…