Africa in the early 1960’s was a place of transitions, political and personal. Suzanne Lang talks with Elaine Neil Orr on her novel, Dancing Woman, set in Nigeria during a time of political unrest and explores the longing of an energetic and artistic wife of an agricultural aid worker.

Also featured is Suzanne’s conversation with Rosemary Manchester on her memoir of life in the Congo during the revolution from Belgian rule, Turn Left at the Big Anthill.

A Novel Idea, Sunday, February 2^nd at 10am PT. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org. 

Suzanne Lang talks with activist and author Alice Rothchild, whose own feminist enlightenment was gained by persevering through a male dominated medical field to become an OB/GYN who reshaped women’s health through her subsequent work. She tells her story, in  Inspired and Outraged, the Making of a Feminist Physician, a memoir in free verse.

Also featured is Susan Muaddi Darraj with her novel Behind You is the Sea, a story of the Palestinian diaspora set in a Palestinian American community in Baltimore.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday January 19^th at 10:00am PT. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org. 

Suzanne Lang talks with Eiren Caffall, a writer who also has a hereditary illness. She writes of the environment’s wounds that affect the life and health of our planet and of our ocean’s through the lens of her own life, struggles, and ultimate optimism, in her book The Mourner’s Bestiary.

Amory Patrick Blaine joins Suzanne to talk about Book 1 of the trilogy American Renaissance, or  Inquiry Concerning Political Justice in the Arts & its Influence on Morals and Happiness, a playful and philosophically probing story of art, culture, terrorism, and political intrigue.

It’s A Novel Idea, first, third, and fifth Sundays at 10:00am PT. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.

Suzanne Lang brings you her conversation with trauma surgeon and policy advisor Brian H Williams about his intense and eye-opening revelations in his book  The Bodies Keep Coming, Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.

Also featured is Candi Milo, voice over artist you probably heard on TV and film in her many cartoon roles, and she tells her story in Surviving the Odd, a memoir of growing up in a half way house, run by her dad, a New York entertainer who decided to support his family in an unusual way.

Two authors with unique and meaningful stories. Sunday, December 29th at 10am PT.