Suzanne Lang talks with Brian H. Williams - trauma surgeon, policy advisor, and current candidate for US Congress, who brings us his intense and eye-opening revelations in  The Bodies Keep Coming, Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.

Then, Jody Gelb, actress, Mother, and author talks with Suzanne about Gelb’s “micro-memoir,” She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy, an impressionistic portrayal of Jody’s life with her family, her career, and daughter Lueza, whose birth went not according to plan and whose happiness and energy radiate throughout the memoir.

It’s A Novel Idea with Suzanne M. Lang is heard every first, third, and fifth Sundays at 10:00am. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.

Sometimes authors use conventional forms of fiction to explore larger issues of history, gender, love, and success. Called the “Raymond Chandler for feminists”, Shelley Blanton-Stroud delivers the third installment of her novels featuring columnist Jane Benjamin, which include Copy Boy, Tom Boy, and now Poster Girl, and she joins Suzanne Lang in conversation.

Suzanne also talks with mystery writer Bob Burnett about the first in a series featuring US Marshal Kate Swift in Death is Potentail. 

Eliot Pattison is the author of gritty mysteries set in the historic past and joins Suzanne Lang for an hour of conversation. His latest novel is Freedoms’s Ghost, a Mystery of the American Revolution, a recent installment into his Bone Rattler series, set in the pre-Revolutionary War Colonial America. Also featured is a 2019 segment with Eliot discussing the tenth and last installment of his “Inspector Shan” series set in Tibet, Bones of the Earth. 

Eliot Pattison and Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea, Sunday, November 19^th at 10 am PT on KRCB, 104.9 FM in Sonoma County, streaming and podcasting to the world at krcb.org.

Award winning writer and historian Julia Bricklin joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her most recent book Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist, the story of Hannah Weinstein, a left leaning activist who fled to Europe during the McCarthy era, and established Sapphire Films. With little background, she began producing successful television shows, all the while surreptitiously employing blacklisted American writers to provide the scripts.

Also featured is the book A Girlhood: Letter to my Transgender Daughter and its author Carolyn Hays in conversation with Suzanne. Carolyn is an award winning author, but chose to publish this book under a pen name to protect her family; her daughter, assigned male at birth, asserted that she was a girl at the age of three and has been living that way ever since.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, November 5^th at 10am PT.  Broadcasting at 104.9 in Sonoma County, streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.