KRCB-FM: Word By Word
73 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"I like the vitality of in-studio, roundtable interviews," Gil says, "when you have several authors sitting at the same table and focusing on the same theme, you get real conversations. It’s fun, exciting, and often unpredictable."
On the new Word by Word programs, Gil will be inviting a different guest each month to share their unique perspective on a "Great California Writer."
Gil Mansergh should be familiar to many KRCB listeners. His movie review columns appear in four Sonoma County newspapers, and his Cinema Toast radio show has been a Thursday morning staple on KRSH-FM for seven years. Author or Book Doctor of over 50 books, manuals and curriculums, Gil was honored as a Freelance Success by Writers Digest Magazine. He honed his interview skills during five years as Director of the prestigious California Writers Conference at Asilomar. "I’m excited to have this opportunity to share my conversations with authors with KRCB’s listeners," Gil says, "and I appreciate your comments." [email protected]
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Biographer Carolyn Burke - March 10, 2019
March 11, 2019 14:10 - 59 minutes - 27 MBPaintings, drawings, photographs, moving pictures, poetry, and letters infuse this episode of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers. This is because host Gil Mansergh’s and studio engineer Anthony Garcia’s guest is the respected biographer Carolyn Burke with her latest book Foursome. The four people who burst forth in this volume are photographer Alfred Stieglitz, painter Georgia O’Keefe, movie maker Paul Strand, and writer/painter Rebecca Salsbury.
Jeff Raz - January 13, 2019
February 11, 2019 16:14 - 59 minutes - 27 MBNorthern California Public Media’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh wanted to juggle things up a bit, so our first guest for 2019 is the internationally renowned juggler, clown, teacher, playwright and author Jeff Raz.
Gaye LeBaron - February 10, 2019
February 11, 2019 16:14 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word Listeners are due for a special treat treat today, for Gil Mansergh’s guest is the celebrated local legend Gaye LeBaron in a conversation about her new book entitled: The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove which she co-wrote with Bart Casey. This amazing—-but-true—tale of Sonoma County’s premier mystical sexual cult, Fountaingrove, is the century-long saga of three men: New England prophet Thomas Lake Harris, British pilgrim Laurence Oliphant, and Japanese Samurai Kanaya Nagasaw...
Annual Gift Book Suggestions - December 9, 2018
December 10, 2018 17:08 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIn what has become a Word By Word tradition, your white-bearded Santa, Gil Mansergh, is once again pleased to welcome the book buyers for nine the local Copperfield’s Bookstores, Sheryl Cotleur and Michele Bellah with their carefully considered suggestions for gift books. Book Buyers play a critical role in a bookstore—because they are the ones who decide what books will be carried on the shelves. As you can imagine, there is a fierce competition between publishers for shelf space, and Miche...
Mary's Italian Family Cookbook - November 11, 2018
November 13, 2018 01:33 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh hosts a very tasty Word By Word conversation this month. Tasty, because it features an insider’s look at the newly released Mary's Italian Family Cookbook. This book is testament to the talent and tenacity of the woman who started it all—Mary Fazio, who, in 1959 (at the age of 46), used her $700 life savings to open the original Mary’s Pizza Shack in Boyes Hot Springs, CA—a Sonoma County-based business that has 17 Mary’s Pizza restaurants today Gathered around the table with G...
“After the Fires Are Out” Anniversary Show - October 14, 2018
October 25, 2018 16:21 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIt is just over a year since the night of Sunday, October 9th 2017, when nearly 111,000 acres and nearly 6,000 homes in the Napa/Sonoma wine country were incinerated by unstoppable flames. Word By Word host Gil Mansergh marks this occasion by reprising the “After the Fires Are Out” show originally broadcast of November 12, 2017. Gil has added a new ending to todays show by, providing updates on how our fire-impacted Word By Word writers are today.
Suzanna Solomon & Cathy Zane - September 9, 2018
September 10, 2018 23:53 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word host Gil Mansergh has a spirited conversation with two multi-talented women who worked full time when they wrote their novels about women escaping abusive relationships. Electrical Engineer Suzanna Solomon’s book Montana Rhapsody features a pole-dancer who escapes an assault by three men by stabbing one with the stiletto heel of her shoe and blinding the other two with a can of hairspray. Former Labor and Delivery Nurse and current Psychotherapist Cathy Zane's book Better Than ...
Bonnie Monte & Francine Falk-Allen - July 9, 2018
September 10, 2018 23:52 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh’s Word By Word guests for July are a pair of Marin County writers with books on decidedly different topics. Bonnie Monte’s The Sleeping Lady is a modern, cozy mystery novel set in the shadow of Mt. Tamalpais, and Francine Falk-Allen, who contracted polio when she was three, presents Not A Poster Child which is, as she writes, “a memoir of life as a handicapped person trying to be a normie.”
Edgar Cantero - Aug 8, 2018
September 10, 2018 23:48 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn the August, 2018 Word By Word: Conversations With Writers, host, Gil Mansergh welcomes the Barcelona-born NY Times bestselling writer Edgar Cantero with his decidedly different new novel This Body’s Not Big Enough For the Both of Us. Edgar writes short stories, screenplays and novels in three languages (Spanish, Catalan, English) that often include women kissing, things exploding and multiple versions of the same event presented like deconstructed Hollywood gangster films from the 1940’s. ...
Christie Nelson & Jeb Harrison - June 17, 2018
June 18, 2018 14:34 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh’s June conversation is with two multi-talented Marin County novelists: Christie Nelson, and her latest historical novel, Beautiful Illusion: Treasure Island, 1939 a tale of a plucky female reporter, a dwarf anthropologist, and a Japanese diplomat and dangerous deceit at the Golden Gate International Exposition held in the middle of San Francisco Bay; and Jeb Harrison, with his picaresque family saga, The Healing of Howard Brown which...
Michael Shapiro & Eric Mcintyre - May 13, 2018
May 14, 2018 14:12 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh likes to present writers from different genres, today’s show features valuable insider perspectives on creating documentaries from filmmakers Michael Shapiro & Eric Mcintyre—the co-directors of Junkyard Alchemist, a celebrated short film featuring Sebastopol’s internationally acclaimed junk artists, Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent.
Greg Sarris - April 8, 2018
April 09, 2018 14:39 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh hosts a very special Word By Word: Conversations With Writers broadcast on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. That is because the conversation is with the award-winning professor, novelist, screenwriter, historian and storyteller Greg Sarris and his new collection of Miwok stories entitled How the Mountain Was Made. Greg is also serving his thirteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and explains, “The Miwok people’s most important contribution to Sono...
Rebecca Rosenberg - March 11, 2018
March 12, 2018 13:56 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word host Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to a time of trysts and love nests on this month’s show. The object of desire is Jack London’s wife Charmian. Her story is shared with the world in Rebecca Rosenberg’s novel, The Secret Life of Mrs. London. A familiar guest on Word By Word, Rebecca is the author of the photo book Lavender Fields of America, and historical novels about strong women including the forthcoming books in her Widows of Champagne series. Living on the border of the L...
Samantha Paris - February 11, 2018
February 12, 2018 17:57 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word host Gil Mansergh celebrates Valentine’s Day by chatting with the esteemed voice-over actor and teacher Samantha Paris with her new memoir Finding the Bunny. Bobbi Block grew up in Los Angeles and started doing voiceovers for cartoons and commercials when she was 15-years-old. Since then, her voice can be heard in over 1000 regional and national commercials, and 200 animated half-hour TV shows. Discovering she had the gift of teaching her skills to others, she moved north, found...
Dr. Matthew J. James - January 14, 2018
January 15, 2018 23:39 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn today’s Word By Word, host Gil Mansergh helps us travel back 112 years to join the hardy young men who spent a year and a day collecting specimens on the Galapagos Islands for the California Academy of Sciences (CAS). Our guide is Dr. Matthew J. James, Chair of the Sonoma State University Department of Geology, a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, science advisor to the Galápagos Conservancy, and a Governing Member of the General Assembly of the Charles Darwin Foundation. His ...
2017 Holiday Gift Books Edition - December 10, 2017
December 11, 2017 14:08 - 59 minutes - 27 MBBefore listening to this 2017 holiday gift books edition of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers, host Gil Mansergh wants to remind everyone that this is a very important year to include books as gifts. Immediately following the firestorm that engulfed much of Sonoma County, Gil had survivors living and eating at his house. Since several rooms are lined with book shelves, he would often find them reading the titles and pulling down a personal favorite. “I love this book,” they would tel...
Stefan Kiesbye, Sharon Hamilton - November 12, 2017
November 14, 2017 15:16 - 59 minutes - 27 MBSeveral of Gil Mansergh’s previous Word By Word guests lost homes and businesses in the recent wildfires, and one of these, award-winning novelist and Sonoma State University fiction writing professor, Stefan Kiesbye his wife Sanaz and their dog Kurt escaped from the flames with just minutes to spare. His response was to write a piece for the Los Angeles Times he entitled “Your House Is On Fire, Your Old Life Is Gone.” Stefan shares his words and reflections with our listeners, with Gil, and ...
David Corbett - September 10, 2017
November 06, 2017 16:10 - 59 minutes - 27 MBDavid Corbett and Word By Word host Gil Mansergh reprise a conversation they had about David’s very timely coming-of-age novel Do They Know I’m Running, a book that has become even more important with the recent changes to the DACA program and other proposals for immigration reform. In addition, listeners hear David singing Louie Louie while Gil provides a baritone back-up. Later, Anthony Garcia plays the voice of The Rancher, and Gil is The Narrator for the novel’s opening pages.
Inga Askamit, Catherine Bramkamp, Roger C. Lubeck, Linda Loveland Reid - August 13, 2017
August 18, 2017 16:18 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAward winning travel writer, Inga Askamit shares how she created her piece about alfresco theatrics, Transcendant Summer Night. Catherine Bramkamp chats about being a poetry judge for the anthology, as well as writing her poetic elegy, Wolf House: Jack London State Historic Park Roger C. Lubeck talks about the seductivness of dancing in a story he calls Crush, and reads his poem, “Valley of the Moon.” In addition, Roger has been assigned the task of “official question answerer” by the a...
Jane Green - July 9, 2017
July 11, 2017 01:41 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh launches his second decade as the host of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers chatting with the international bestselling novelist Jane Green about her newest novel The Sunshine Sisters. Jane Green is considered to be one of the founding authors of the “chick lit.” genre. Her 1997 first novel Straight Talking made her an overnight success and her second novel, Jemima J, became an international bestseller. Her first books were often reviewed as ”the kind of novel you'll gobb...
10 years of Word: Conversations With Writers - June 11, 2017
June 12, 2017 23:46 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis is a once-in-a-decade, retrospective look back at the last 10 years of Word: Conversations With Writers broadcasts with host Gil Mansergh. The first half hour features clips by novelists and writing professors Greg Sarris and Jean Hegland, SF literary agents Michael Larson and Elizabeth Pomada, Jamaican-born novelist Margaret Cezair Thompson, and Sebastopol childrens authors and illustrators Megan McDonald and Terri Sloat. The second half hour includes clips with award-winning, bestsell...
Megan Miranda - May 14, 2017
May 15, 2017 22:27 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh welcomes Megan Miranda, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls to Word By Word for a spirited conversation about Megan’s second novel of psychological suspense, The Perfect Stranger.
Eric Puchner - April 9, 2017
April 10, 2017 17:01 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh welcomes the celebrated novelist and master of the short story, Eric Puchner as his guest on KRCB-FM’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers show. Professor of writing seminars at Johns Hopkins, Eric includes nine stories in his Last Day On Earth collection—each falling into distincively different categories from coming-of-age to science fiction to psycho-drama. Last months Word By Word guest, Chinese-born novelist, poet and memoirist Yi Yun Li writes the following about Eric...
Yi Yun Li - March 12, 2017
April 10, 2017 16:59 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis month's guest is McArthur Genius Grant winner, Yiyun Li talking about her memoir Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life. Born and raised in China, Yi’s parents were victims of the cultural revolution but still encouraged their daughter to succeed in anything she chose to do. And succeed she did. Word By Word listeners may recall her conversation with Gil Mansergh where she explained how she wrote her first novel, The Vagrants in English and won the Gold Medal of Californ...
Joshua Mohr - February 12, 2017
February 15, 2017 14:55 - 59 minutes - 27 MBFor February’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh welcomes the award-winning novelist and writing teacher, Joshua Mohr, whose literary memoir Sirens has just been released. Joshua's five novels are populated with word-pictures of individuals addicted to booze and drugs and alternative realities. His work has earned accolades including one of O Magazine’s "Top 10 Reads," an "Editors Choice" in the New York Times and the Northern California Book Award. Joshua has turned ...
Patricia V. Davis, Jo-Anne Rosen - January 8, 2017
January 11, 2017 02:58 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word is fortunate to greet the New Year with two writers featured in an upcoming collaboration entitled Copperfields’ Presents: Redwood Writers Fiction 2017. Starting January 24th and every fourth Tuesday for the following six months, talented writers will share readings from their books from 6:00 to 7:00 at the Montgomery Village Copperfields’ Bookstore. Patricia V. Davis is familiar to Word By Word fans from the revelations she shared from her first bestseller, Harlot’s Sauce: a Me...
2016 Holiday Gift Books - December 11, 2016
December 12, 2016 13:52 - 59 minutes - 27 MBContinuing a seven-year KRCB-FM seasonal tradition, with a hearty "Ho, Ho, Ho!" Word By Word host Gil Mansergh, welcomes Copperfield’s Books buyers Sheryl Cutler and Michelle Bellah to share their carefully considered suggestions for 2016 holiday gift books. Incorporating one deft seque after another, the trio share comments from THE SECRET HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS, VINCENT’S STARY NIGHT, HOW TO MAKE A SPACESHIP, THE SECRET LIFE OF TREES, THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: A M...
"Movies as Teaching Tools" - November 13, 2016
November 14, 2016 23:13 - 59 minutes - 27 MB"Movies as Teaching Tools" is the focus on November’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Today’s guest is SRJC media studies instructor and interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani, author of Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation, and since host Gil Mansergh is a syndicated film columnist who uses film clips in his seminars, the discussion quickly becomes a knowledgeable interchange of how really good movies can be transformationa...
David Kugler - October 9, 2016
October 10, 2016 22:32 - 59 minutes - 27 MBStar Wars, Native American myths, and war-torn Japan during the time when Lord Oda was Shogun are just a few few of the fascinatingly diverse topics Gil Mansergh examines in this Word By Word conversation with actor, novelist, editor and educator David Kugler. David shares excerpts from and writing secrets regarding his newly released young adult novel Risuko. The conversation expands to explore some of the multi-cultural mythologies Joseph Campbell wrote about in Saki and Satori, Myths of Li...
Jean Hegland's Into the Forest and Still Time - September 11, 2016
September 12, 2016 19:45 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh’s SeptemberWord By Word conversation is with Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest, the bestselling novel of a near future, and the soon to be released Still Time, a novel about a Shakespeare scholar with alzheimers. Long time listens may recall that Jean joined novelist Greg Sarris on Gil's very first Word By Word broadcast, way back in May, 2007. A lot has happened in the intervening years, including actress Ellen Page falling in love with Into the Forest and guiding the bo...
Charles Markee & Waights Taylor - August 21, 2016
August 22, 2016 22:07 - 59 minutes - 27 MBCharles Markee & Waights Taylor This month’s Word By Word guests have written novels set in distinctive times and places. As he did in his first detective novel, Kiss of Salvation, Waights Taylor takes us back to 1948 in the segregated Birmingham, Alabama worlds of detective partners Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker in Touch of Redemption, while Charles Markee’s novel of magical realism, Maria’s Beads, features a Latino lettuce-packing family living in present-day Salinas, California. Host Gil Ma...
Revisiting Lisa See - July 10, 2016
July 11, 2016 20:36 - 59 minutes - 27 MBRevisiting Lisa See. Last month’s Word By Word conversation was with the talented graphic artists Maia Kobabe and Trinidad Escobar who shared verbal descriptions of Maia’s lushly illustrated comics The Thief’s Tale, and her award-winning Tom O’Bedlam, and Trinidad’s biomythography, Crushed which explores the interior landscape of her experience as a magikal, transnational Filipino adoptee. During our conversation, Trinidad shared how she needed to carry a dead baby’s first name for most of ...
Trinidad Escobar and Maia Kobabe - June 12, 2016
June 13, 2016 16:41 - 59 minutes - 27 MBTrinidad Escobar and Maia Kobabe are two talented artists and writers with MA degrees in “Comics" from the California College of Arts, who create distinctively different comic books and graphic novels. This is a very visual medium so you may want to accompany today’s conversation by viewing some of the comics online. Maia has shared her work at museums, galleries, libraries and conventions from coast to coast, and host Gil Mansergh believes she is the only Word By Word guest to have been a vi...
“Pen to Published—Redwood Writers Conference" - April 10, 2016
April 11, 2016 21:56 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis month’s guests on the Word By Word: Conversations With Writers are from the upcoming “Pen to Published—Redwood Writers Conference," which will be held at the Santa Rosa Flamingo Hotel on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The conference co-chairs William Haigwood and Robbi Sommers Bryant join host Gil Mansergh, along with the poet/writer Fran Claggett who will present “Lifelines: A Memoir Writing Workshop at the conference.
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival - March 13, 2016
March 14, 2016 19:26 - 59 minutes - 27 MBToday’s Word By Word broadcast begins with an Irish toast befitting this weekend’s weather: May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. Today’s guests represent the Ninth Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (SDFF) which opens on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday Evening, March 17th and runs through Sunday afternoon, March 20th at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Sharing the microphones with Gil are the Program Director and documentary filmmaker, R...
Stefan Kiesbye - February 14, 2016
February 15, 2016 15:36 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWord By Word host Gil Mansergh wishes every one a Happy Gothic Valentines Day by welcoming Sonoma State’s newest professor of creative writing, Stefan Kiesbye. Born in Germany, and with an MFA from the University of Michigan, Stefan’s books prompted Die Welt to write that he “is the inventor or the modern German Gothic novel.” Stefan’s debut, Next Door Lived a Girl, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award and his second book, Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone, was a Top Ten pick...
Marian Lindner, Marilyn Campbell, and Linda Loveland Reid - January 10, 2016
January 11, 2016 18:04 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis month’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers was prompted by Diane Peterson’s recent Press Democrat article about the collaboration between Redwood Writers and Copperfield’s Bookstores. Entitled the “Redwood Author Spotlight,” six local novelists will conduct readings and discussions about their novels on the last Thursday evenings from January through June at the Copperfield’s Montgomery Village location. In this show, host Gil Mansergh welcomes the first three novelists and thei...
2015 Holiday Gift Books Edition - December 13, 2015
December 18, 2015 00:41 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWith a loud, "Ho, Ho, Ho!" host Gil Mansergh, welcomes listeners to our 2015 holiday gift books edition of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers. He asks: "What do bird portraits, The Golden Gate Bridge, dining in the Yucatan, an illustrated Harry Potter book, carved Viking ivory chessman and a roadtrip with Gloria Steinem that lasts 81 years have in common?" These fascinating topics are all included among the gift book suggestions shared by Sheryl Cotleur and Michelle Bellah—the book bu...
Elizabeth George - November 8, 2015
December 18, 2015 00:41 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAward-winning novelist Elizabeth George is creator of the bestselling Inspector Lynley mysteries. George introduces listeners to A Banquet of Consequences, the19th book in the series. Since many readers first encountered Scotland Yard’s dapper Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his down-to-earth partner, Sergeant Barbara Havers on PBS’ British produced Masterpiece Mystery TV shows on KRCB Channel 22, listeners may be surprised to learn that Elizabeth George is American and a former Orange...
Cat Cora, Iron Chef - October 11, 2015
October 12, 2015 15:11 - 59 minutes - 27 MBYou might remember the jump-rope rhyme “Rich man, poor man beggar man thief, doctor lawyer, indian chief” and regular listeners to Word By Word: Conversations With Writers know that host Gil Mansergh has interviewed writers who who are rich and poor, who beg and steal, heal people, defend people and serve as Chairman of a local Native American tribe. But, Gil has never had a celebrity chef as his guest… Until today. The conversation is with Cat Cora the first (and only) female Iron Chef, Am...
10th Annual Redwood Writers Anthology - September 20, 2015
September 21, 2015 16:42 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh welcomes Christina Goulart, Susan E. Gunter, and Susanna Solomon, three of the talented writers featured in a special 10th anniversary writers anthology collected, edited and published by Redwood Writers. With over 150 members, our local Redwood Writers branch is the largest and arguably the most active of the 21 branches in the California Writers Club. The anthology project began as a labor of love by editors Catherine Farrell, Karen Batchelor and Linda C. McCabe when they foun...
“What Are They Up To Now?” - August 9, 2015
August 10, 2015 19:34 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis month, it's a news-worthy “What Are They Up To Now?” version of Word By Word, Conversations With Writers, as host Gil Mansergh reprises conversations with guests who are in the news. Late breaking new stories includes the just-released movie starring Billy Cruddup playing Stanford psychologist emeritus Philip Zimbardo, and new books and honors for Word By Word guests Adam Johnson, Steve Hockensmith, Amanda McTigue, Matthew Pearl, Joan Price and YiYun Li.
Jessica Jackley; Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey - July 12, 2015
July 12, 2015 19:02 - 59 minutes - 27 MBListeners to Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh wants listeners to know they have a great opportunity to hear two conversations with award-winning advocates for radical forms of entrepreneurism on July's show. “Find your voice,” says KIVA co-founder Jessica Jackley. “This means expressing something about you and what you believe. It is the first step toward doing valuable action in the world.” While her micro-lending organization continues to change the face of pove...
David Dodd - June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015 20:14 - 59 minutes - 27 MBGil Mansergh hosts a special Grateful Dead version of Word By Word Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media KRCB-FM. His guest is librarian and cultural historian David Dodd, author of a massive book with the rather long title: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs With Selected Traditional and Cover Songs. In addition to being a Dead Head, David is also the Collections Manager for the Son...
10-minute Play Contest Winners - May 10, 2015
May 13, 2015 01:31 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThis month's Word By Word:Conversations With Writers is one of the show's signature round-table discussions where four guests share microphones, and host Gil Mansergh tries to make sure listeners know whose voice is filling the airwaves. This conversation is even more fun than usual, because the room is populated by four of the six prize-winning playwrights from the 6th Street Theater’s and Redwood Writers New Voices on the Vine Wine Country Play Festival. Which runs from M...
Alexander McCall Smith - April 26, 2015
April 29, 2015 00:39 - 59 minutes - 27 MBInternationally beloved bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith calls his hour-long chat with Word By Word host Gil Mansergh "something quite extraordinary...a real conversation." The creator of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has over 100 titles in print. A fabled raconteur, McCall-Smith shares anecdotes and advice for other writers while reading selected passages from his latest challenge - the updating of a classic Jane Austen novel in Emma: A Modern Retelling.
Laurie R. King - March 8, 2015
March 09, 2015 18:53 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBThis month, Word By Word host Gil Mansergh has a sparkling conversation with Laurie R. King, the winner of the John Creasy Memorial Award for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - the first of a dozen historical mysteries featuring Mary Russell and her mentor (and eventual husband) Sherlock Holmes. Laurie R. King was inducted into the prestigious Sherlock Holmes literary society, "The Baker Street Irregulars" in 2010. Her newest mystery novel, Dreaming Spies, debuted this week on The New York Times...
Susan Pease Gadoua and Vicki Larson - February 8, 2015
February 09, 2015 21:36 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBSince Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, KRCB-FM's Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh invited the North Bay thearapist and bestselling author Susan Pease Gadoua and award-winning journalist Vicki Larson to help us reconsider our thoughts about love and marriage with their groundbreaking book, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.
Waights Taylor, Jr. - January 11, 2015
January 12, 2015 04:54 - 59 minutes - 26.8 MBJanuary's Word By Word: Conversation With Writers broadcast is a special tie-in with the Martin Luther King holiday. Host Gil Mansergh welcomes Birmingham, Alabama-born writer Waights Taylor Jr. and his award-winning historical memoir, Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham--The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century. Waight's newest book is the first of a mystery series set in the segregated South in the middle of the Twentieth Century. Featuring the “White” ...
Holiday Gift Books - December 14, 2014
December 08, 2014 21:33 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBContinuing an annual tradition, the 2014 holiday gift books edition of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. host Gil Mansergh welcomes back the book buyers from the local Copperfield’s Bookstores, Sheryl Cotleur and Michelle Bellah with their always challenging task of choosing which books to talk about when they only have an hour to do it. We are doubly pleased this year, because Sheryl served as one of the judges for the 2014 National Book Award fo...