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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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Episodes

Susan Bono - November 9, 2014

November 11, 2014 04:15 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB

Word By Word Host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with the celebrated writer, teacher, and Tiny Lights Journal editor and publisher, Susan Bono as she shares some of her personal narratives from her new book , What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.

From the archives: Molly Dwyer - October 12, 2014

November 11, 2014 04:10 - 59 minutes - 27 MB

Host Gil Mansergh is in Europe for a few weeks, so we are celebrating Halloween a tad bit early with a reprise of a Word by Word conversation with novelist Molly Dwyer and her astounding book, "Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein.” The spooky story travels from the present to the past and recounts the almost unbelievable life of Mary Walstonecraft Shelley, who wrote her novel “Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus” when she was only 19 years old.

SSU Professor Emeritus J. J. Wilson, Jonah Raskin, former Sonoma County Poet Laureate Terry Ehret, and Press Democrat contributor Julie Lee - September 14, 2014

September 15, 2014 04:04 - 59 minutes - 27 MB

SSU Professor Emeritus J.J. Wilson, joins SSU's Jonah Raskin, former Sonoma County Poet Laureate, Terry Ehret, and Press Democrat contributor Julie Lee for a conversation with Word By Word host Gil Mansergh about The Sitting Room's 2014 publication: This is What a Feminist Looks Like. Listeners also get to hear what Feminists sound like?

Sharon Hamilton - August 3, 2014

August 05, 2014 01:41 - 59 minutes - 23.8 MB

Learn the spicy secrets hidden between the covers of warmly sensual romance novels as Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh chats with the prolific bestselling writer, Sharon Hamilton. Sharon tells us how she was forced to leave her Sonoma County organic garden and travel to Las Vegas, Tucson, New Orleans and Italy to pose with the shirtless hunks who model for the covers of her various book series, including Cruisin’ For a SEAL, SEAL My Destiny , and Fallen SEAL Legacy i...

William Haigwood - July 6, 2014

July 08, 2014 01:12 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MB

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh welcomes the photojournalist and writer William Haigwood whose Journeying the Sixties: A Counterculture Tarot has caused a bit of stir among tarot aficionados and baby-boomers alike. Gil and Bill discuss the history and relevance of Tarot cards, and the impact of the 60's Counterculture Movement has in our lives today.

Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo - April 6, 2014

April 07, 2014 18:44 - 59 minutes - 26.6 MB

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host, Gil Mansergh welcomes Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo, three talented local writers involved in From Pen to Published, the Redwood Writers Eighth biannual Conference. This eclectic group writes police insider mysteries like Force or Fear, nuclear terrorism thrillers like The Tehran Triangle, kid's gardening and craft books like Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang, and medieval graphic novels like the Kid Beowolf series.

March 2, 2014 - Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival; Susanna Solomon

March 04, 2014 04:08 - 59 minutes - 27 MB

We have a two-segment Word By Word: Conversations With Writers show this month from North Bay Public Media, KRCB FM. Host Gil Mansergh invites you to first meet with the Festival director and two of the filmmakers whose award-winning documentaries will be part of the exciting and still very cool, seventh annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, which will take place the last few days of March. The second segment is a conversation and reading by Susanna Solomon, author of the recently re...

February 2, 2014 - Ben Marcus

February 03, 2014 21:55 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MB

Host Gil Mansergh has a special treat for our KRCB listening audience, as we welcome the return of the truly original writer Ben Marcus on this Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Regular listeners should recall that Ben took time off from his job as a professor in Columbia University’s School of Arts a couple years ago, to share insights into the familiar yet unsettlingly different reality of the North America detailed in his spectacular novel The F...

January 5, 2014 - Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

January 07, 2014 00:22 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

For the January, 2014 broadcast of Word By Word: Conversations With Writers brothers Joe and David Henry join host Gil Mansergh to talk about their biography, Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him. Joe is a singer songwriter who broke into the business as a Production Associate for Spinal Tap, the iconic band that never really was. Married since 1987 to Melanie Ciccone, Joe has penned songs for Madonna, Madeline Peyroux and Roseanne Cash. A Grammy-winning record producer, ...

December 1, 2013 - Holiday Gift Books

December 06, 2013 19:28 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Host Gil Mansergh welcomes you to our annual Word By Word gift books suggestions show from North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Our guests are Sheryl Cotleur and Michele Bellah, the knowledgable frontlist buyers for the Copperfield’s Bookstores. The conversation is about the personally selected novels, and nonfiction for adults, and picture books and stories for children that would be perfect for someone special on your gift list. Gil invites you to sit back and spend an hour with us with y...

November 3, 2013 - Jamie Ford

November 05, 2013 04:06 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Award-winning novelist Jamie Ford joins host Gil Mansergh for Conversations With Writers. Ford has followed his beloved novel The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet with a much-anticipated second novel set against the backdrop of Seattle's depression-era Chinatown. Songs of Willow Frost tells the tale of two youngsters who escape from an orphanage to find the Chinese-American boy's mother - a woman he thinks they have seen in a Hollywood movie. As author Pat Conroy writes: "Ford is a fir...

October 2, 2013 - Robin Burcell

October 02, 2013 19:26 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MB

Word By Word host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with former police officer, detective, hostage negotiator and forensic artist Robin Burcell, the Award-winning author of the Kate Gillespie series featuring the first female SFPD homicide detective in books like Deadly Legacy and Cold Case, and the thriller series featuring FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick in Face of a Killer, Bone Chamber and The Kill Order, which comes out in January.

September 4, 2013 - Sonoma County Book Festival

September 06, 2013 01:05 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MB

Host Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to what has become an annual tradition on KRCB-FM’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers - a show featuring writers who are part of the current year’s Sonoma County Book Festival. Gil’s guests are: food explorer and radio show host Marcy Smothers, author of SNACKS: Adventures in Food, Aisle by Aisle; mystery writer Sue Olsen McCullough, who has just finished writing a suspense novel set in Stockhom, Sweden about a mother whose 13-year-old daughter ru...

August 7, 2013 - Ransom Stephens

August 09, 2013 01:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Ransom Stephens captured his readers' attentions with sex, drugs, quantum physics and artificial intelligence in his bestselling first novel The God Patent. Now, in his latest book The Sensory Deception, the Petaluma resident tackles the winner-take-all race for the ultimate gamer experience. Ransom Stephens joins host Gil Mansergh for an entertaining conversation about creating an alternative universe not all that different from our own.

July 3, 2013 - Sonoma Squares Red Harvest murder mystery

July 05, 2013 23:54 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to a mysterious “Breakfast Serial*” broadcast of Word By Word where the conversation is with four of the 14 writers for the Sonoma Squares Red Harvest murder mystery serial currently appearing each morning in The Press Democrat in print and online. Gil's studio guests are: Press Democrat entertainment reporter Dan Taylor who wrote Chapter 2. Sonoma Squares/Red Harvest co-editor Frederick Weisel, author of the mystery Teller: A Novel, who ...

June 5, 2013 - Authors Bonnie Harvey and Rebecca Rosenberg

June 06, 2013 01:39 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Join Gil Mansergh in conversation with two local entrepreneurs and writers: Bonnie Harvey, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Barefoot Cellars for 20 years and the co-author of the business adventure story, The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand; and Rebecca Rosenberg the co-owner of Sonoma Lavender and co-author of the beautiful book, Lavender Fields of America: A New Crop of American Farmer, which looks at the modern, yet ancient, phenomenon of lave...

May 1, 2013 - The Orphan Master's Son

May 03, 2013 22:36 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

To honor Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer for his novel The Orphan Master's Son, KRCB-FM's Word By Word is reprising the conversation with Gil Mansergh which was originally broadcast April 4th 2012.

April 3, 2013 - Oleander Girl

April 05, 2013 19:19 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB

American Book Award winner Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni joins Word By Word host Gil Mansergh for a conversation on her newest novel, Oleander Girl. Known worldwide as an "enticing storyteller with an exquisite moral compass," Chitra's bestsellers include Sister of My Heart, One Amazing Thing, and Mistress of Spices which was made into a movie Starring Dylan McDermot and Aishwarya Rai.

March 6, 2013 - The Big Read, Emily Dickinson

March 07, 2013 23:27 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB

This month's Word By Word program features conversations with writers writers from two distinctive Sonoma County activities - the National Endowment for the Arts March, 2013 Big Read focusing on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and the 6th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival which runs from Thursday March 21st through Sunday, March 24th. To honor Emily Dickinson, Word By Word host Gil Mansergh invited Anne Goldman and Gillian Conoley, two distinguished writers and professors from Sono...

February 6, 2013 - Jordan Rosenfeld and Rebecca Lawton

February 12, 2013 04:14 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB

It's a meeting of fire and water on February's Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on KRCB-FM, as Gil Mansergh welcomes Word By Word’s first host, Jordan Rosenfeld, and her co-author of Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life, Rebecca Lawton. Both writers are now novelists as well. Jordan’s fire-fueled novel of psychological suspense, Forged in Grace, will be released the end of this month, and Rebecca’s river rafting novel Junction, Utah, just came out.

January 2, 2013 - Quest of the Warrior Maiden

January 04, 2013 03:12 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Linda C. McCabe's historical novel Quest of the Warrior Maiden propels an entertaining conversation filled with blood, lust, fantastic adventure, and chivalrous romance. Linda and host Gil Mansergh gab about those thrilling days of yesteryear when Charlemagne battled Saracen armies, sword-wielding knights Bradamante and Ruggiero fell in love at first sight, hippogriffs swooped in to carry one lover away to an enchanted island populated with seductive women, while his true love lopped off he...

December 5, 2012 - Broadcast Guide to Gift Books

December 06, 2012 22:21 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Word By Word welcomes the holidays with its traditional "Broadcast Guide to Gift Books" program this month, when a pair of experts from Copperfield's Bookstore share their picks for the best of the best books for holiday gifting with program host Gil Mansergh. Sheryle Cotier shares some of her favorite books for grown ups, including Flight Behavior - scientist/novelist Barbara Kingslover's sojourn to the Tennessee countryside where a mysterious "Red Fire" glows in a secluded glen. For nonf...

November 7, 2012 - T.C. boyle

November 30, 2012 20:10 - 54 minutes - 25 MB

Gil Mansergh once again welcomes the celebrated novelist and former Sonoma County resident, T.C. Boyle for an hour-long conversation on Word By Word. They chat about T.C.’s newest novel “San Miguel” which tells the stories of three courageous women who fought against loneliness and despair as sheep ranchers on an isolated, wind swept island in the Santa Barbara Channel.