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Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Terese Svoboda, author of two dozen books, in addition to short stories, poems, journalism, with work in The Atlantic, Slate, th...
Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen Cooper on River of Angels
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Stephen Cooper, the leading biographer, scholar, and booster of the writer John Fante. He is winner of an NEA for his fiction, a...
Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Gustavo Hernandez on Bachelor
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is poet Gustavo Hernandez, last on this show to discuss his breakout poetry collection Flower Grand First. He is out now with Bache...
Bibliocracy Radio: Maria Dolores Aguila on A Sea of Lemon Trees
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is María Dolores Águila, out now with A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez. It’s a poetic work of YA historic...
Bibliocracy Radio: Tracy Rosenthal at Hammer and Hope
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is journalist and activist Tracy Rosenthal, author of a terrific long piece at the new issue of a favorite online journal, Hammer &...
Bibliocracy Radio: Alvarez & Guzman-Lopez at Beyond Baroque
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I present a performance edition of the show, a recording made at a recent reading hosted by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation. Thanks to Jimmy...
Bibliocracy Radio: Tom Zoellner- The Road Was Full of Thorns
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A welcome regular on Bibliocracy, my end-of-year 2025 Fund Drive guest is Tom Zoellner, celebrated in a three-part series starting today which feature...
Bibliocracy Radio: Vishwas Gaitonde - On Earth As It Is In Heaven
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Vishwas Gaitonde, a much-published short story writer out with his debut fiction collection, stories which dramatize, explore, interroga...
Bibliocracy Radio: John Bellamy Foster on Einstein's "Why Socialism?"
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is the writer and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster on his work in helping Monthly Review Press republish the classic Alber...
Bibliocracy Radio: Daniel Olivas on Waiting for Godinez
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is the multi-form writer Daniel Olivas, author of 13 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama including the subject of today...
Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Abby Walthausen
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is poet and prose writer Abby Walthausen, out now with a new poetry collection titled A Swale a Sort of Swaddle, a remarkable colle...
Bibliocracy Radio: Nicholas Reiner of So Cal ACLU
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Nicholas Reiner, a poet and teacher and Associate Director of Media & Storytelling at the ACLU of Southern California. As pa...
Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on All Things AI & Higher Ed
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Dr. Nolan Higdon. Today on Bibliocracy Radio I check in again with Nolan Higdon, an activist and scholar on whose perspectives I...
Bibliocracy Radio: Trevor Griffey on Corporate AI Teacher Training
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Trevor Griffey. While Bibliocracy Radio is largely devoted to the celebration of book culture and reading, I’ve also frequentl...
Bibliocracy Radio: Robin Romm on Radical Empathy
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Robin Romm, author of a breakout 2007 collection of stories, The Mother Garden, a celebrated memoir,The Mercy Papers and, now, a...
Bibliocracy Radio: ALA Banned Books Week
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m pleased to host American Library Association President Sam Helmick on the work of that organization and the upcoming ALA Banned Books Week 2025,...
Bibliocracy Radio: Oscar Villalon on ZYZZYVA’s Fortieth
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Oscar Villalon, editor in chief of ZYZZYVA journal. Together we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the esteemed West Coast litera...
Charles Hood on Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is poet, prose writer, nature writer and photographer Charles Hood. In his newest book he has written a nature guide, travel advent...
Bibliocracy Radio: Dawna Kemper & Miles Parnegg
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I share an edited version of readings by two more contributors to the latest Santa Monica Review. Taped in front of a live audience at a spr...
Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen D. Gutierrez & Sean Bernard in Performance
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week an edited version of readings by two contributors to the latest Santa Monica Review. Taped in front of a live audience at a spring issue lau...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special: Closing Talk by Sameer Pandya
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "The Short Story" with Tom Barbash, Dana Johnson, Maceo Montoya, Gregory Spatz. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "Bringing History to Life: Techniques, Challenges, and the Social Responsibility of the Writer" with Jamie Ford, Charlie Haas, Julia Flynn Siler, Amy Tan. Moderated by Sands Hall
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Oh What a World, What a World...! Worldbuilding - The Art of Creating and Sustaining a Fictional World" with Katy Hays, Rhoda Huffey, Brenda Lozano, Maceo Montoya. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Samuel Freedman: "Using Family History to Craft a Narrative." Introduced by Brian Eule
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Research Rx: How to Address Research Roadblock with Bernice Yeung and Julia Flynn Siler
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - Agents (1/2)Hour with Michael Carlisle, Annie Hwang, Michael Mungiello, Peter Steinberg. Moderated by Maya Ziv
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Demystifying Publishing - The Book Editor's Panel" with Jessica Case (Pegasus Books), Ben George (freelance, formerly Little, Brown), Alexander Star (Farrar Straus Giroux), Maya Ziv (Dutton). Moderated by Michael Mungiello
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Lunch with my Editor, with Rickey Fayne and Maya Guthrie (Assistant Editor at Little, Brown)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "Methods of Revealing - Which Form Best Serves my Material - Memoir, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, or Some Hybrid" with Frances Dinkelspiel, Brian Eule, Robin Romm, Sands Hall. Moderated by Mary Melton
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: “And Then the Queen Died of Grief: on Plot” with Venita Blackburn, Kirsten Chen, Jamie Ford, Amy Waldman. Moderated by Katy Hays
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Sands Hall: “Hurling the Boot. Boarding the Dog: On Scene”
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: Literary Magazines with Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review), Oscar Villalon (ZYZZYVA), Mary Melton (Alta Journal), and Maceo Montoya (Huizache)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "What We Talk About When We Talking - On Dialogue" with Vanessa Hua, Dana Johnson, Lauren Markham, Patricia Meyer. Moderated by Sands Hall
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Rickey Fayne: "Show and Tell: How Objects and Images Reveal Character and Advance Plot"
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Writers Workshops 2025 - Opening Talk by Robin Romm: Your Imagination is Not a Capitalist: Attention as Craft"
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they ...
Bibliocracy Radio: L. Annette Binder on Child of Earth and Starry Heaven
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: L. Annette Binder, the author of the short story collection Rise, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the novel The Vanishing Sky. Now...
Bibliocracy Radio: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez on California Southern
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: journalist and poet Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, out with a collection decades in the making. Published by Hinchas Press, he joins me this week to ...
Bibliocracy Radio: Emily Greenberg on Alternative Facts
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Greenberg joins us this week. She is the author of a debut short story collection, Alternative Facts, one of the most remarkable literary, polit...
Amy Gerstler on Is This My Final Form?
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Acclaimed poet Amy Gerstler, author of 11 collections including Scattered at Sea, long-listed for the National Book Award and Creature, a N...
Bibliocracy Radio: Sameer Pandya on Our Beautiful Boys
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains both parts of a two-part show featuring novelist and short story writer Sameer Pandya on his newest novel, Our Beautiful Boys. ...
Andrew Nicholls: As Man is to God
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Andrew Nicholls. He's written extensively for television print and stage, and produced both a memoir and a how-to comedy writing book...
Bibliocracy Radio: Janice Shapiro on Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I welcome back screenwriter and short story writer Janice Shapiro, out with her full-length graphic novel Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship, a coming-o...
Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on the Industrial Information Media Complex
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I welcome Dr. Nolan Higdon, a longtime media/civic literacy expert and critical media scholar, as well as activist and educator.The views expressed in...
Bibliocracy Radio: The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is the art historian Stephen F. Eisenman, collaborator with legendary artist Sue Coe on the new collection The Young Person’s Illustrated G...
Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa Alvarez Reads "False Flag"
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we simultaneously mark a maddening anniversary and celebrate joyful creative resistance with a reading of her 2021 short story “False Flag...
Bibliocracy Radio: Andrew Tonkovich on A Lovely Wallpaper
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this month’s fund drive first edition I air an edited version of a terrific podcast hosted by writer Abby Walthausen featuring me --- of all p...
Bibliocracy Radio: Chuck Rosenthal on Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I host novelist and memoirist Chuck Rosenthal, author of the Loop trilogy and Never Let Me Go, among many books. His latest, Awake For Ever in a Sweet...
Bibliocracy Radio: David L. Ulin on Thirteen Question Method
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I host editor, anthologist, book reviewer, and essayist David L. Ulin, who has written about Los Angeles and Southern California for decades, assembli...
Bibliocracy Radio: Gary Amdahl reads "The Breezeway"
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, a reading by a favorite writer, Gary Amdahl, author of Visigoth, I Am Death, The Intimidator Still Lives in Our Hearts and, out now, The Creati...
Bibliocracy Radio: Brittney Corrigan on The Ghost Town Collectives
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for today is poet and, lately fiction writer Brittney Corrigan. Her recent poetry collection Solastalgia explored themes of ecological cris...
Bibliocracy Radio: Banned Books Week with ALA President Cindy Hohl
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I present my annual program celebrating Banned Books Week (September 22-29) with special guest American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl...
Bibliocracy Radio: Steve Wasserman: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for the first of a three-part series is Steve Wasserman, the legendary editor, publisher, writer, agent, and arts and literature advocate wit...
Bibliocracy Radio: Corey Robin on the Reactionary Mind
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I present excerpts from one of the most requested, most popular, and perhaps, alas, most enduring and relevant of the hundreds of shows I have hosted ...
Bibliocracy Radio: Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival”
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A program celebrating a long-ago artist and writer whose work I am curating at an upcoming gallery show. Today I read his self-published book, Aliso C...
Bibliocracy Radio: Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Jackie Wu, who worked for the Orange County Registrar of Voters. She's written a firsthand account titled On the Front Lines of Democ...
Bibliocracy Radio: Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I attended the recent launch party reading celebrating the arrival of a must-read, must-own anthology. Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terr...
Bibliocracy Radio: Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, my guest is Larry Beinhart, perhaps best known for a novel adapted into the film Wag the Dog (American Hero) but today talking about and readin...
Bibliocracy Radio: Victoria Patterson on Drift
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, my 2009 interview with Victoria Patterson on her debut book, Drift, a defining —- for the author and her hometown, Newport Beach —- short s...
Bibliocracy Radio: Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, my 2010 interview with Luis Alberto Urrea on his smart, funny, sincerely moving Into the Beautiful North, a comic and woman-centered take on th...
Bibliocracy Radio: Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, my 2009 interview with Dylan Landis on her debut novel-in-stories, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, a singularly poignant, tough and smart...
Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is short story writer Mary Jones. She has written and published dozens of short stories for many years, earning acclaim, and establ...
Bibliocracy Radio: Kevin Allardice on WEFT
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Kevin Allardice, the author of short stories and five novels, of which I have no read three. His most recent is Weft, and it’s...
Bibliocracy Radio: Suzanne Greenberg on Shopping for Dad
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is Suzanne Greenberg, a much-published short story writer whose novel Lesson Plans was a Library Journal Editor’s pick. Her pre...
Bibliocracy Season 2 Episode 1 - THE BIG LISTEN: Journal of the Plague Years
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off the next season of Bibliocracy Radio on Community of Writers Podcasts, we are presenting a very special episode. A Journal of the Plague Y...
Writers Workshops 2024 - Closing Talk by Gail Tsukiyama
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gail Tsukiyama delivers the closing talk to round out the fifty-fourth year of the Community of Writers summer workshops. Introduced by Karen Joy Fowl...
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: ”Writing Beyond the Conference”
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Espinoza, Monica West, Andrew Nicholls & Janet Fitch. Moderated by Lisa Alvarez.
Panel: ”Narrative Voice & Dialogue”
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Johnson, Karen Joy Fowler, Susanne Pari, Amy Tan & Monica West discuss Voice & Dialogue in this panel.
Writers Workshops 2024 - Craft Talk by Rachel Howard - “Writing from the Heat of Moment: Improvisation in Fiction and Nonfiction Writing”
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Howard delivers a craft talk on Improvisation in writing.Rachel Howard is the author of a novel, The Risk of Us, and a memoir, The Lost Night. ...
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: “ Fact, Truth, and Imagination: Craft Choices for Different Genres”
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Sands Hall, Michelle Latiolais, Keenan Norris, and David Ulin discuss genre.
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: On Plot
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katy Hays, Alex Espinoza, Tyler Diltz, Stacy Spruill, and Martin J. Smith discuss plot in fiction. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich.
Writers Workshops 2024: A Craft Talk by Tom Barbash: “What Doesn’t Break Us: The Art of the Story”
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Barbash presents an exploration into "Foster" by Claire Keegan, and "Switzerland" by Nicole Krauss.Tom Barbash is the author o...
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Martin J. Smith: “Difficult Interviews: Getting the Reluctant to Talk”
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Interviewing advice from someone who has been doing it for nearly fifty years.
Writers Workshops 2024 - Literary Agents Panel
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BJ Robbins, Kirby Kim, and Michael Mungiello. Moderated by Katy Hays.
Writers Workshops 2024: Book Editors Panel
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reagan Arthur, Leland Cheuk, Jean Garnett, and Dan Lopez. Moderated by Michael Mungiello.
Panel: West Coast Literary Journals
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Grimes (Faultline), Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review/Citric Acid), David Ulin (Air/Light), and Blaise Zerega (Alta Journal) discuss west coa...
Panel: The Short Story
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Johnson, Sameer Pandya and Gregory Spatz discuss the craft of the short story. Moderated by Tom Barbash.
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Victoria Patterson:“Show, Tell, Show, Tell - Scene and Summary in Fiction & Nonfiction”
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Patterson kicks off day 2 of our writers' workshops in olympic valley with a talk on show vs. tell. Victoria Patterson’s latest story...
Writers Workshops 2024: Panel - “Reliably Unreliable First Person”
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Leslie Daniels, Leland Cheuk, Louis B. Jones, Andrew Tonkovich. Moderated by Victoria Patterson.
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: “Writing the Historical in Fiction and Nonfiction”
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Roberts, Janet Fitch, Karen Joy Fowler, and Gail Tsukiyama, moderated by Sands Hall.
Writers Workshops 2024: Craft Talk by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: "Writing a Life: A Character's Journey Across Generations"
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first craft talk of the 2024 Writers Workshops in Olympic Valley: Staff member and board member Margaret Wilkerson Sexton kicks off day 1 with a c...
Podcast Special: Gill Dennis's 2014 Opening Talk
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a podcast special, we wanted to share the late Gill Dennis’s welcome address from 2014, ten years ago. Gill Dennis died less than a year later in...
Writers Workshops 2024: Opening Talk by Leland Cheuk: It's Not About You Until It Is
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leland Cheuk Welcomes us to the 2024 Writers' Workshops from Olympic Valley, introduced by Andrew Tonkovich.
Bibliocracy Episode 13: Federico Finchelstein on Wannabe Fascists
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is a world-renowned expert on fascism, populism, and dictatorship. Federico Finchelstein’s newest book is The Wannabe Fascists:...
Bibliocracy Episode 12: Joan Braune on Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Braune has written a scholarly book which reads to this admirer like a handbook of liberatory insights, a history and a glossary, a philosophy te...
Bibliocracy Episode 11: Molly Giles on Life Span
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist, short story writer, and acclaimed teacher Molly Giles. The author, most recently, of the novel The Home for Unwed Husbands, is out with a ...
Bibliocracy Episode 10: Venita Blackburn on Dead in Long Beach, Califonria
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is acclaimed short story writer and, now, novelist Venita Blackburn. Her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California arrives after ...
Bibliocracy Episode 9: Julie Schumacher on The English Experience
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Julie Schumacher, who will talk about and read from the final book in a trilogy which has earned its place on the shelf with other f...
Bibliocracy Episode 8: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 2 of 2)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guests this week further remember, celebrate, and, today, read from (!) the work of the late short story writer, teacher, friend and mentor Dwight ...
Bibliocracy Episode 7: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 1 of 2)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guests this week remember and celebrate the life and work of the late short story writer, teacher, friend and mentor Dwight Yates (1945-2023). I am...
Bibliocracy Episode 6: Amber A'Lee Frost on Dirtbag
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest this week is the writer, activist and podcaster from Chapo Trap House, Amber A’Lee Frost. Her debut book Dirtbag is a personal memoir, a jo...
Bibliocracy Episode 5: Theresa Bonpane on Sister Rebel
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My very special guest is Theresa Bonpane, a legendary Southern California peace and justice, anti-war and anti-intervention activist. Her memoir, Sist...
Bibliocracy Episode 4: Katherine Haake on What Books Press
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is novelist and short story writer Katherine Haake, a co-founder of What Books Press. Celebrating fifteen years, this collectively run publis...
Bibliocracy Episode 3: David Kipen on Dear California
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is David Kipen. He needs no introduction because he is himself the introducer, the anthologizer, the cultural historian, the literary...
Bibliocracy Episode 2: Reid Sherline on Rapture
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his prizewinning novella Rapture, debut writer Reid Sherline has with a very small book made an outsized contribution to the literature of dark, we...
Bibliocracy Episode 1: Kelly Sather on Small in Real Life
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest is Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winner KELLY SATHER. Her collection, Small in Real Life, features stories which are darkly funny, wh...