Live Radio
Long time activist for economic and environmental justice, Chuck Collins, brings us his provocative novel of the near future, Altar to an Erupting Sun, which opens with a woman strapping a bomb to herself to blow up an oil executive. 
Also featured is Hannelore Krollpfeiffer’s book, We Lived in Berlin, a Story about the End of the War, finally translated into English from the original German by our guest Katrin Ciaffa. It is an undistorted look at the realities of two young women during the final days of WWII. It’s a Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang, every first, third, and fifth Sundays at 10:00 am on 104.9 FM in Sonoma County and streaming at krcb.org.
Suzanne Lang talks with novelists Ginny Kubitz Moyer on her historical novel, The Seeing Garden, set in 1910 on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Also on the program, Robert McKean, whose novel Mending What is Broken is mad-capped, funny, and heartfelt. It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, July 16th at 10 am PT.
Fire Captain Christy Warren was born to deal with crisis situations and rescuing others. She was tough and decisive under pressure, but when she started experiencing uncontrollable emotional distress, she turned on herself in self-destructive ways and struggled for her own survival. Christy tells her story in Flash Point, a Firefighters Journey through PTSD.
We also feature Susan Farren, founder and Executive Director of First Responders Resiliency, Inc., an organization that takes a proactive and science-based approach to address the effects of trauma and stress faced by first responders and their families.
Tina Davidson is a composer whose music is autobiographical, so her memoir is of course, musical. Suzanne Lang talks with composer Tina Davidson, on her life, work, and memoir: Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music from a Classical Composer. 
Also featured is Francesco Lecce-Chong, Conductor and Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Eugene Symphony orchestras and impetus behind the First Symphony Project. A Novel Idea airs on the first, third, and fifth Sundays on KRCB 104.9.
- Mary Jo McConahay and Kate McElwee on A Novel Idea (Aired: June 4, 2023)
- Dale Tafoya and Mark Shrager join Suzanne on A Novel Idea (Aired: May 7, 2023)
- Beth Ann Mathews and Skye Blaine on A Novel Idea (Aired: April 30th, 2023)
- Author Joan Frank on A Novel Idea (Aired: April 2, 2023)
- Donnaldson Brown and Samuel W. Gailey on A Novel Idea (Aired: March 5, 2023)
- Candi Milo and Loren Niemi on A Novel Idea (Aired: February 5, 2023)
