Lit103.3

SEASON 5 SHOW SCHEDULE

Reader — 2008-02-29T20:42:00Z

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Old-Fashioned Love Song by Diana Renn and The Devil You Know by Stacey Keith

Diana Renn grew up in Seattle and now lives in Boston with her husband and son. She graduated from Hampshire College and earned an M.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. After graduate school, Diana taught ESL, writing, and literature, worked in educational publishing, and authored several ESL textbooks. She also traveled whenever possible, and taught English in South America.In addition to writing for young adults, Diana writes short stories and essays, which have been published in a variety of magazines and literary journals.When she’s not writing, Diana enjoys bicycling and taiko drumming. She studies taiko and occasionally performs with the group Odaiko New England. Tokyo Heist is her first novel. Visit dianarennbooks.com or dianarenn.net) for more information on Diana

Award-winning writer Stacey Keith has been on more than twenty talk shows, including "Montel Williams," "Geraldo Rivera," "Real Personal with Bob Berkowitz," "Sally Jesse Raphael," and "Joan Rivers." In addition to hundreds of radio interviews, Stacey has lectured throughout the United States and the University of Toronto.Her aspirations in the area of fiction have encompassed two Golden Heart nominations, a Maggie, two Silver Quills, a Jasmine, a Heart of the Rockies, two Mollies, and over fifteen other first-place wins in Romance Writers of America contests, of which organization she is a member.In addition to writing, Stacey works as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer to professional athletes. Visit Staceykeith.com for more information on Stacey.

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Silent Hill by Larry Sweazy and Shade by Karen Condon

Stories by two of the show's favorite writers.

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Excerpts from The Blood Lie by Shirley Vernick as well as from a previously unpublished essay by Saul Bellow on "A Jewish Writer in America."

Shirley Vernick grew up in Massena, New York where the blood libel happened, as did her father, whose family was directly victimized by it. She now lives with her husband, two daughters, and two frisky dogs in Amherst. Shirley has written for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, national newspapers, and the publications of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Boston Universities. She graduated from Cornell University, where she was awarded the school’s Fleischmann Scholarship for Writing Achievement.

Musical roots- the 50's and some discussion and a reading and more. Also, some fundraising.

Future dates to be announced

The First of All My Dreams Was of..., by Thomas Bergeron.

It's fitting to begin a new season with a unique show. The First of All My Dreams was Of....is a jazz album by the Thomas Bergeron Quintet. All compositions are by Thomas Bergeron based on themes by Claude Debussy. Each cut tells a musical story of Thomas' life beginning here in the Pioneer Valley and then moving on to New York City.

Future dates to be announced

Mama's Boy by Ken Kuhlken

like no mama's boy you'd imagine, Kuhlken takes us to San Diego and Tijuana.

Future dates to be announced

This and that, music from Tom Waits to local artists that went national and some fundraising

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Welcome and Navigation Instructions

Reader — 2008-02-29T20:41:00Z

Welcome to Lit103.3; fiction for the ears. My name is Alan Vogel, your host/reader. Each show is a podcast archive of an over the air radio broadcast on WXOJ FM 103.3, Northampton, MA. Broadcast every Tuesday at 1:00 PM, Lit103.3; fiction for the ears is a platform for short fiction, any genre or no genre at all, as well as creative non- fiction, and excerpts. I also play music which are really stories in song, as well as talk about writing, publishing, books and fiction in general.

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Reader — 2008-02-29T20:40:00Z

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Excerpts from The Blood Lie by Shirley Vernick as well as from a previously unpublished essay by Saul Bellow on "A Jewish Writer in America."

Reader — 2008-02-28T21:18:00Z

Silent Hill by Larry Sweazy and Shade by Karen Condon

Reader — 2008-02-28T21:17:00Z

Silent Hill was previously published in the anthology, Ghost Towns by Kensington Press.
Larry D. Sweazy (www.larrydsweazy.com) won the WWA Spur award for Best Short Fiction in 2005, and was nominated for a SMFS (Short Mystery Fiction Society) Derringer award in 2007. He has published over 40 non-fiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in, or will appear in, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine; The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!; Boys’ Life; Hardboiled, and other publications.
Larry’s first novel, The Rattlesnake Season, featuring Texas Ranger, Josiah Wolfe, was published by Berkley in October 2009, and was finalist in the 2010 Best Books of Indiana literary competition. There will be at least three more Josiah Wolfe novels in the series. The Scorpion Trail (#2) was published April of 2010. The Badger’s Revenge (#3) became available in April, 2011, and The Cougar’s Prey (#4) in October of 2011.

Shade by Karen Condon. Karen Condon has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She recently won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. Another of her stories will appear in Story Quarterly this December (2011)."

Mama's Boy by Ken Kuhlken

Reader — 2008-02-28T21:15:00Z

Ken Kuhlken’s stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has been a frequent contributor and a columnist for the San Diego Reader. With Alan Russell, he has chronicled the madness of book tours in Road Kill and No Cats, No Chocolate.His novels are Midheaven, a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel, The Loud Adios (Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel, 1989), The Venus Deal, The Angel Gang, The Do-Re-Mi (a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel), The Vagabond Virgins, and The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles, (San Diego Book Awards Best Mystery of 2010). In Writing and the Spirit, he offers a wealth of advice to writers and everyone looking for inspiration. He resides on the web at www.kenkuhlken.net, and teaches creative writing at Perelandra College, www.perelandra.edu.

Old-Fashioned Love Song by Diana Renn and The Devil You Know by Stacey Keith

Reader — 2008-02-28T21:14:00Z

Diana grew up in Seattle and now lives in Boston with her husband and son. She graduated from Hampshire College and earned an M.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. After graduate school, Diana taught ESL, writing, and literature, worked in educational publishing, and authored several ESL textbooks. She also traveled whenever possible, and taught English in South America.In addition to writing for young adults, Diana writes short stories and essays, which have been published in a variety of magazines and literary journals.When she’s not writing, Diana enjoys bicycling and taiko drumming. She studies taiko and occasionally performs with the group Odaiko New England. Tokyo Heist is her first novel. Visit dianarennbooks.com or dianarenn.net for more information on Diana

The First of All My Dreams Was of..., by Thomas Bergeron.

Reader — 2008-02-28T21:13:00Z

It's fitting to begin a new season with a unique show. The First of All My Dreams was Of....is a jazz album by the Thomas Bergeron Quintet. All compositions are by Thomas Bergeron based on themes by Claude Debussy. Each cut tells a musical story of Thomas' life beginning here in the Pioneer Valley and then moving on to New York City.

Musical roots- the 50's and some discussion and a reading and more. Also, some fundraising.

Reader — 2008-02-21T21:12:00Z

Back to the '50's- new ground for most. And More. Much More. And, yes, some fundraising.

This and that, music from Tom Waits to local artists that went national and some fundraising

Reader — 2008-02-21T21:12:00Z

Money Medley, Songs about Alice and more.