Producer and Host: Abigail Adler

Guest: Christina Waters

Christina Waters writes a weekly column of artists profiles in the San Francisco Bay area.  She is also the food and wine and restaurant critic for a weekly Santa Cruz publication. She is the author of Inside The Flame: The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have. The book a treasury of memories inspired by objects that surround us: an antidote to the current cleaning out and downsizing craze.

Producer and Host: Abigail Addler

Guest: Don Usner

Don Usner's latest book is Orale! Lowrider Custom Made in New Mexico is a colorful large format photography book  about New Mexico's lowrider culture. Usner is a native of New Mexico and has published 10 books of photography and text, most of them with subjects rooted in local culture and traditions. He has published many articles in magazines including El Palacio, New Mexico Magazine and Photo Booth, an online blog of the New Yorker magazine.

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Guest: Benjamin Klein

Aired: November 30, 2016

Benjamin Klein is editor of and contributor to New Settlers: Photographs of the Counterculture of New Mexico . This book tells the story of dropouts, renegades and utopians - disillusioned children of the middle class who settled in communes in northern New Mexico in the 1960s. Historian, Benjamin Klein is in a unique position to tell the tale; he spent his summers in El Rito with his hippie father and the school year with his mother immersed in the counter culture of the Bay Area. The historic photographs are by Irwin Klein, Benjamin's uncle. Benjamin Klein is currently a lecturer at California State University East Bay. His additional field of expertise is court culture in late 17th century England. 

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Guest: Johnny D.Boggs

Aired November 16, 2016

Johnny D Boggs has published more than 50 books with western themes.  Books with titles like Legacy of a Lawman, South By Southwest and Doubtful Canyon. He has won many prestigious awards including the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and the Western heritage Wrangler Award. He began his career as a journalist writing for the Dallas Times Herald and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He moved to Santa Fe in 1998 to write books full time.

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Guest: Nancy Zeckendorf

Aired: November 16, 2016

Nancy Zeckendorf talks about Developing My Life by William (Bill) Zeckendorf. Bill Zeckendorf wrote this autobiographical book about his life as a pioneering, influential builder and developer in both New York City and Santa Fe, NM.  His wife, Nancy was instrumental in publishing and spreading the word about this book which was published after Bill's death in 2014. This is the story behind the story of major projects in Santa Fe, such as The Eldorado Hotel, Los Miradores and the historic renovations of the Lensic Theatre and the Santa Fe Opera house.

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Guest: Joshua Baer

Aired: November 2, 2016 

Joshua Baer is the author of  "One Bottle", a monthly column about wine for THE Magazine in Santa Fe, NM. He is also an appraiser of Navajo textiles. After completing a college degree in Art History, Baer went into the rare coin business.  In addition, from 1978-1985 he interviewed musicians and rock stars for "Musician Magazine". He came to Santa Fe in 1985 and opened a gallery, Joshua Baer and Co., in downtown Santa Fe from 1988-2003. He is the author of three books about Native American Art. His column, "One Bottle" has run in THE Magazine for the past 17 years.

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Guest: Malena Morling

Malena Morling is the author of two books of poetry, Ocean Avenue and Astoria. Morling grew up in Sweden and is a much-publisned translator of Swedish authors including Nobel Laureate, Tomas Transtromer.  Morling has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals. She is currently a professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 

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Guest: Elaine Pinkerton

Elaine Pinkerton is a freelance journalist whose articles have appeared in Runner's world, Family Circle New Mexico Magazine among many others.  

She has published six books of non-fiction and fiction, including Good Bye Baby, A Diary About Adoption, From Calcutta With Love, A collection of Letters, and the novel, Beast of Bengal.

Her popular book, Santa Fe On Foot, first published in 1986, has just been reissued with new chapters included.

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Guest: Leslie Poling-Kempes

Leslie Poling-Kempes has published six books, four non-ficrtion and two fiction. Her book, The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened The West, published in 1989, is considered the definitive work on Harvey Girls. Her latest book, Ladies of the Canyon, has already received three prestigious awards. Poling-Kempes novel, Bone Horses, won the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction in 2013.

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Guest: Anne Valley-Fox

Anne Valley-Fox has published 5 books of poetry. Her latest book, Nightfall, has just been published by Red Mountain Press. Anne worked in the Artists in the Schools program and then for many years worked at Project Crossroads, a non-profit that promoted creative cirriculum in the schools. That culminated in Anne co-editing 5 books of New Mexico history including;Cowboys, Ranching and Cattle Trails, Outlaws and Desperados and Stories from Hispano New Mexico.

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Guest: Thomas Larson

Thomas Larson is a Journalist, Critic and Memoirist. The author of three books; The Sanctuary of Illness, The Saddest Music Ever Written, and Memoir and the Memoirist. He is a long-time staff writer for the San Diego Reader. He Teaches writing and creates "presentations" such as his work about musicians on the Titanic. Tom Larson has an undergraduate degree in music composition and a graduate degree in American Literature.

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Guest: John Nichols

John Nichols , author of more than 20 books, is perhaps best known in these parts for The Milagro Beanfield War, which was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford. He is also the author of The Sterile Cuckoo which was made into a movie staring Liza Minnelli. Other books include Nirvana Blues and If Mountains Die. His books express unimaginable beauty, perceptive, laugh-out-loud humor and unmerciful rage at human destruction of the planet. His latest book, just out this year, is The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest.

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Guest: Kate McCahill

Kate McCahill is Assistant Professor of English at the Santa Fe Community College and faculty advisor for the Santa Fe Literary Review. She has also written, managed, and edited content for a number of corporate and non-profit organizations, Her essays, stories and poems have been published in anthologies, magazines and journals..She received a Traveling Fellowship to teach and write in Latin America for a year.  Her first book, PATAGONIAN ROAD: A YEAR ALONE THROUGH LATIN AMERICA, will be published in 2017  

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Guest: Rosemary Zibart

Rosemary Zibart writes in almost every genre- including film scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, picture books, young adult novels, plays and essays. As a journalist she has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Time and Parade magazines. Her plays include All Too Human and The Jewel in The Manuscript.

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Guest: Susan Gardner

Susan Gardner is a poet, writer, publisher and photographer. She has published six books of poetry and a memoir, Drawing the Line- A Passionate Life. She is the literary editor and founder of Red Mountain Press based in Santa Fe, NM. Susan speaks five languages and writes in English, Spanish and sometimes Japanese. She is also an expert in ancient books and paper making.

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Guest: Baron Wolman

Baron Wolman, very cool original Rolling Stones Magazine Photographer, known for his iconic photographs of rockstars, jazz musicians, country singers... pretty much anyone making the scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Baron continues to photograph and write the text for his many books. Here are some of the stories behind those famous photos.

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Guest: Leslie Harrell Dillen

Leslie Harrell Dillen is the author of a dozen plays and an actor with many acting credits. Her plays have been in production and workshopped throughout the US and in Edinborough Scotland. Her play, Death Quilt was workshopped at the Sundance Institute. Her play, The Passions of Mabel Dodge Lujan has recently been staged in Santa Fe at Teatro Paraguas.

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Brian Volck

Producer and Host: Abigiai Adler

Brian Volck is a writer and pediatrician. Author of Attending Bodies: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words. This latest book is a memoir of Volck's years treating children on the Navajo Reservation, at a inner city community health center in Kentucky, and in Honduras. Volck just published his first collection of Poetry, Flesh Becomes Word.

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Guest: Jose Skinner

Author, Jose Skinner is the co-founder/director of the MFA program at The University of Texas Pan America. His short stories have been published in many literary journals. Skinner has published two books of stories: FLIGHT AND OTHER STORIES and THE TOMBSTONE RACE.

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John Yohe is a writer, Essayists and Poet. He has published extensively on the internet. His essay about hiking in the Grand Canyon is included in the recently published book, On Foot, a collection of essays about hiking in the Grand Canyon. His daytime job? Fire lookout in the Santa Fe National Forest overlooking the Valles Caldera. 

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Guest: Janie Chodosh

Janie Chodosh has a deep interest in natural history that comes out in her writing and parallel careers. Her new book, Interviews with Conservationists, co-authored with Lori Robinson, is due out on Earth Day 2017. She is also the author of Death Spiral - the first in a series of mysteries for young adults.

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Guest: William DeBuys

William DeBuys is a dedicated environmental activist and advocate for wild lands.  He is the author of nine books all of which have received awards and critical acclaim.Among his best known books are The Walk and The Great Aridness. His latest book, The Last Unicorn, was published in 2015. DeBuys lives on a small farm in northern New Mexico where he lives to write and writes to live.