Clive Riddle

January 27th, 2012

Show #194 Recorded 12/9/11 Aired 1/27/12

Dorris Bridge

Clive Riddle grew up in the isolated high desert northeastern California town of Alturas in the 1970s, and draws on his teenage experiences there to create a story of fact, fiction, and rural legends in a fictional small town he calls Dorris Bridge, the original name of the town of Alturas. It is a crime mystery, but also a touching tale of the heart.

Listen Now:

Standard Podcasts [00:29:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (40)

Posted in 1. January 2012 | Comments (0) » | (0 ratings)

Alan Guzzetti

January 20th, 2012

Show #193 Recorded 9/16/11 Aired 1/20/12

No More Smoking in Bed

Alan Guzzetti wrote this memoir to answer his daughter's question, "Who are we?" In his late teens Alan lived in Japan and Korea as a member of the Air Force. Once out of the military he got in on the ground floor of the high tech revolution in what became Silicon Valley. A high-stress career took him all over the world. He was back in San Francisco when the earthquake hit the Bay Area in 1989. Good food has always played an important role in the Guzzettis' Italian-American household, and Alan now lives in Chico where his nephew David and his son Woody are caterers.

Listen Now:

Standard Podcasts [00:28:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (27)

Posted in 1. January 2012 | Comments (0) » | (0 ratings)

Dan Barnett & Heather Lyon

January 6th, 2012

Show #192 recorded 12/30/11 aired 1/6/12

"Local Best-Sellers of 2011"

Book reviewer for the Chico Enterprise-Record Dan Barnett and bookstore owner Heather Lyon join Nancy to discuss books by local authors. They mention Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers, a novel popular internationally; Laird Easton, translater of Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler 1880-1918, which The Atlantic named one of the top ten books of 2011; Joan Brock of Gridley who collected her grandmother's letters written during World War II in My Dear, Dear Rigmor. Orland resident Loyal McCammond's long trail ride We Poked a Hole in the Wind was a popular book. Richard Burrill's Ishi's Untold Story in his First World about the last "wild Indian" in North America sold well, and The Birds of Bidwell Park by ornithologist Roger Lederer, illustrated by his wife Carol Burr continued to sell well in 2011. For both aspiring and experienced writers, Dan highly recommends a book by another husband and wife team whose "Pitchapalooza" in Chico was a standing-room-only event, The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It ... Successfully! by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry. A new collection of poems, At Lake Scugog, by award-winning poet and philosopher Troy Jollimore was another reviewer favorite.