In Conversation

Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with San Francisco author and columnist Steven Winn and discusses his work as a theater and art and culture critic, and his poetry, memoir and novel.

Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone composer, lyricist and writer Nicholas Alva about his projects that combine music, dance, texts from world literature and his own lyrics and writing.

Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with memoirist Tarn Wilson about finding the shape of her memoir “Slow Farm” and what comes next in her writing.

Host Sheila Bender conducts an in-studio interview with Port Townsend’s Rikki Ducornet, novelist, poet and painter, and discusses her development as a writer and how she teaches new writers.

Host Sheila Bender talks via phone with Eugene, Oregon cartoonist Jan Eliot, whose widely syndicated strip, Stone Soup, appears in over 200 newspapers. After 20 years of a daily dose of the strip’s characters, Eliot has semi-retired and the cartoon will now appear only on Sundays. The interview talks about her background, how she developed and writes the strip, and delves into a discussion of other women cartoonists.

Host Sheila Bender interviews Ken Doctor, former newspaper publisher and executive and currently a nationally respected voice on the direction of media in the electronic age through his website, Newsonomics.

Host Sheila Bender interviews Portland memoirist Mandy Smith via phone, and discusses her recent memoir and her activism against childhood abuse.

Host Sheila Bender talks in studio with Port Townsend poet Afrose Ahmed and discusses her life, her poetry and the teaching of embodied writing.

Host Sheila Bender interviews via phone New York City novelist, short story writer and essayist Janice Eidus.

Host Sheila Bender interviews Port Townsend poet and blues musician Gary Lilley, and discusses his background and career.