Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column
Episodes
1229: Ian Shoales, in Cooperation with KQED
09 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Debates
1228: A 2012 Interview with Thrity Umrigar
09 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...I walked away from that meeting in 2008 with an old friend of mine and literally saw at least the outline of the book in front of my eyes..."
1226: A 2011 Interview with Eric Weiner
06 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...by the end, given all the amazing people I met out there, I've changed my views about that."
1225: A 2012 Interview with Stan Lee
02 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"When we got a telephone, it was a big thing."
1227: Time to Read, Episode 30: Thrity Umrigar
01 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The World We Found
1224: Time to Read, Episode 29: Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
01 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Lunatics
1223: A 2012 Interview with Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry
30 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"From there, the book gets a little odd..."
1222: Ian Shoales, in Cooperation with KQED
27 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
NASA
1221: The Agony Column Live with Laurie R. King : January 21, 2012
26 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Conan Doyle was never convinced by Holmes."
1220: Time to Read, Episode 28: Sara Paretsky
25 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Breakdown
1219: A 2012 Interview with Sara Paretsky
23 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything in a courtroom is a story; it's not justice, it's combating narratives."
1218: Ian Shoales, in Cooperation with KQED
19 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer
1217: A 2012 Interview with Tea Obreht
19 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I had been raised with three religions..."
1216: Time to Read, Episode 27: John Lescroart
18 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Hunter
1215: A 2012 Interview with Michael Gazzaniga
16 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"I started flashing things left and right field ..."
1214: Ian Shoales, in Cooperation with KQED
15 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Siri
1211: A 2012 Interview with John Lescroart
15 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...it's all about the details..."
1213: A 2012 Phone Interview with Lisa Randall
13 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"...there seems to be some evidence, especially from one of the experiments."
1212: Time to Read, Episode 26: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
11 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Van Gogh: The Life
1210: Speaking Frankly With Thomas Frank
06 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Semper Infidelis
1209: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 25: Jonathan Lethem
04 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Ecstasy of Influence
1208: A 2011 Interview with Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
02 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
"... he was such a voracious reader ..."
1206: A 2011 Interview with David Goyer and Michael Cassutt
29 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Our approach was: 'OK, what happens next?'"
1205: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 24: Robert K. Massie
28 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
1204: A 2011 Interview with Jonathan Lethem
26 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm amazed to be taken so seriously as I am."
1207: The Agony Column Live, October 8, 2011
23 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Mohr and Steven R. Boyett
1203: Ian Shoales, in Cooperation with KQED
22 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Current Events
1202: Three Books with Alan Cheuse
22 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'Kill Bin Laden' ; Ryu Mitsuse, '10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights' ; Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, 'Micro'
1201: Time to Read, Episode 23: David Vann
21 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
1200: A 2011 Interview With Robert K. Massie
19 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...she abolished capital punishment..."
1199:The Agony Column Live with Lisa Goldstein and Ayize Jama-Everett, and music by Fenyang Smith, December 10, 2011
16 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Goldstein
1198: The Agony Column Live with Lisa Goldstein and Ayize Jama-Everett, and music by Fenyang Smith, December 10, 2011
16 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Ayize Jama-Everett reading from 'The Liminal People,' backed by Fanyang Smith.
1197 :The Agony Column Live with Lisa Goldstein and Ayize Jama-Everett, and music by Fenyang Smith, December 10, 2011
16 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Goldstein, Ayize Jama-Everett and our esteemed audience
1196: A 2011 Interview with Peter Orner
15 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...the humor of hard things is what gets us through it."
1195: Time to Read, Episode 22: Sue Grafton
14 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
V is for Vengeance
1192: Speaking Frankly with Thomas Frank
14 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"More Government, Please!"
1193: A 2011 Interview with David Vann
12 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...we're out of control, and we're a nation built on giant lies."
1192: Cecelia Holland Reading at SF in SF on November 12, 2011
09 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Fiction is agonizing sometimes."
1191: Cecelia Holland Interview at SF in SF on November 12, 2011
09 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Fiction is agonizing sometimes."
1190: A 2011 Interview with Vicki Goldberg
08 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Most of the images were in the digital archive."
1189: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 21: Scott Wallace
07 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
1188: A 2011 Interview with Sue Grafton
05 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Go to Sears, get a hammer and knock the guy on the head."
1187: Kim Stanley Robinson Reads at SF in SF on November 12, 2011
02 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2312
1186: Kim Stanley Robinson Reads at SF in SF on November 12, 2011
02 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Revolution
1185: Three Books With Alan Cheuse
01 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Garner, 'Red Shift' ; Stephen King, '11/22/63' ; Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, 'The Night Eternal'
1184: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 20: Charles Frazier
30 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Nightwoods
1183: A 2011 Interview with Scott Wallace
28 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Within months of first contact, these groups experience a huge die-off."
1182: Time to Read, Episode 19: Jeff Herzberg and Zoe Francois
24 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day'
1181: A 2011 Interview with Charles Frazier, Part Two
23 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not me telling you, there's this storyteller voice."
1180: A 2011 Interview with Charles Frazier, Part One
21 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"If we're going in the wrong direction, we could turn around and go back."
1179: A 2011 Interview with Gianni Mola
17 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"The only way you can learn, I told them, is to watch me cook it."
1178: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 18: Karl Marlantes
16 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'What It Is Like To Go To War'
1177: A 2001 Interview With Jeff Hertzberg, M. D. and Zoe Francois
14 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I end up making all sorts of pizzas with this crust."-Zoe Francois
1176: A 2011 Interview with Karl Marlantes
11 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...the way I "think" about things, with quotes around think, is I tend to write them down..."
1175: Nick Mamatas Interviewed at SF in SF on June 11, 2011
10 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"It's a first contact story where we don’t even realize that we're the ones being first contacted."
1174: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 17: Lawrence Lessig
09 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Republic, Lost
1173: A 2011 Interview with Lawrence Lessig
07 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"The first constitution was a complete disaster."
1172: SF in SF Panel Discussion with Lisa Goldstein, Nick Mamatas and Terry Bisson on June 11, 2011
03 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"People got tired of all that realism." - Lisa Goldstein
1171: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 16: Michael Reynier
02 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Five Degrees of Latitude
1170: A 2011 Interview with Colson Whitehead
31 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"In the Apocalypse, somebody's gonna have to do the grunt work..."
1169: A 2011 Interview with Jana Marcus
27 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"'Transfigurations' is a real opportunity to stare."
1168: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 15: Russell Banks
26 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Lost Memory of Skin
1167: A 2011 Interview with Michael Reynier, Complete
24 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I started typing ...."
1166: A 2011 Interview with Michael Reynier, Part 1
24 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I started typing ...."
1165: A 2011 Interview with Michael Reynier, Part 2
24 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I started typing ...."
1164: Lisa Goldstein Reads at SF in SF
21 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Bondmaid's Tale
1163: A 2011 Interview with Lisa Goldstein at SF in SF
20 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I couldn’t put it down, I had to finish it."
1162: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 14: Lisa Randall
19 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Knocking on Heaven's Door
1161: A 2011 Interview with Russell Banks
17 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"They are in a sense, permanently marked and thrown into this darkness..."
1160: A 2011 Phone Interview with Jacqueline Novogratz
15 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm sorry...I'm at the airport in Dubai, and it's pretty chaotic."
1159: The Agony Column Live with Tad Williams and Deborah Beale
14 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Her style was different, our styles were very different."
1158: Three Books With Alan Cheuse
13 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'IQ84' by Haruki Murakami, 'Assumption' by Percival Everett, 'Zone One' by Colson Whitehead
1157: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 13, Erin Morgenstern
12 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Night Circus
1156: A 2011 Interview With Lisa Randall
10 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I gave it to religious people, I gave it to non-religious people and both were unhappy with what I wrote."
1155: A 2011 Interview With Ruth Rendell
06 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Oh, I could kill him."
1154: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 12, Neal Stephenson
05 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
REAMDE
1153: A 2011 Interview with Erin Morgenstern
03 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm always kind of a fantastical writer."
1152: A 2011 Phone Interview with Russell Banks
01 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I don’t find plotting all that hard once I have the characters in place."
1151: Three Books with Alan Cheuse
30 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Slonczewski 'The Highest Frontier' ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 'Apricot Jam' ; Denis Johnson, 'Train Dreams
1150: A 2011 Interview with Meg Wolitzer
29 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I really think you need to respect the antsyness of kids."
1149: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 11, Lev Grossman
28 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The Magician King
1148: Neal Stephenson Live Reading and Q and A
26 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Live at the Swedish American Music Hall Courtesy Booksmith
1147: A 2011 Interview with Neal Stephenson
26 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"Here you're asking me to engage into more self-examination than is my wont..."
1146: Tad Williams and Deborah Beale at SF in SF on August 13, 2011
22 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...and you will notice that Antony has never stayed with any of the publishing companies he's founded..."
1145: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 10: George Pelecanos
21 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'The Cut'
1144: A 2011 Interview with Lev Grossman
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm gonna write it ... and if Viking doesn't publish it, everyone can just come over to my house and look at it on my laptop."
1143: Tad Williams Interview at SF in SF on August 13, 2011
16 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"The Lord of the Rings, so far as I was concerned, took place in the Sierras."
1142: Tad Williams Reading at SF in SF on August 13, 2011
16 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...Caliban, has folndhis way to Naples..."
1141: Deborah Beale Reads from 'The Dragons of Ordinary Farm' at SF in SF, August 13, 2011
15 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This is what she had been waiting for for months.
1140: Deborah Beale Interviewed at SF in SF, August 13, 2011
15 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...it struck me that I had to go to America ..."
1139: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 9: Laurie R. King
14 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
'Pirate King'
1138: A 2011 Interview with George Pelecanos
12 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...maybe somebody's trying to tell me to write a book about this guy Spero."
Rudy Rucker and Kim Stanley Robinson in The Agony Column Live at Capitola Book Cafe, June 4, 2011
09 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"All of those were written on the typewriter."
1136: A 2011 Interview with Ben Loory
08 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"..there's so much of it that really is ... that comes from the unconscious and I really don't have any control over."
1135: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 8: Midwestern Noir
07 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Harvey and David Levien
1134: A 2011 Interview with Laurie R. King
05 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...preferably throw in a few distractions as well..."
1133: A 2011 Interview with Penn Jillette
02 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I don't know."
1132: Nick Mamatas Reads at SF in SF on June 11, 2011
01 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"I will try to read more slowly."
1131: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 7: Writing About Slavery: Alan Cheuse
31 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Song of Slaves in the Desert
1130: A 2011 Interview with David Levien
29 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
"...this guy went on to be a private investigator for years and years and he still does it..."