KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente just published his second novel- The Con Artist. The scene of the action is ComiCon San Diego, one of the massive conventions that attracts comic book aficionados, addicts and authors.
Van Lente is best known as a New York Times best-selling comics writer. He creates the text for the hard-hitting, irreverent superhero series, Archer and Armstrong. He is also the author of non-fiction comics with weightier subjects like the series, Action Philosophers.
Fred Van Lente co-wrote the graphic novel, Cowboys and Aliens, which was made into a film staring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
Van Lente's first book, Ten Dead Comedians, was a thinly veiled show business satire.
He joins us by phone from Brooklyn, new York.
KSFR RADIO 101.1FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Bob Puglisi
BOB PUGLISI has just published his fourth book- Unassisted Living with the tagline- Never cross a mob of angry seniors.
Before becoming an author, Puglisi's career took some dramatic turns from computer programmer and technical writer for major IT corporations to actor, screenwriter and author. He also worked as part time librarian at the Old Rock Library in Crested Butte, Colorado for 15 years.
In 2000, he received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts for his screenplay BIG WHITE BONNEVILLE. He then produced it as a short film that made the rounds of the film festival circuit. He adapted that screenplay into a novel -MIDNIGHT AUTO SUPPLY in 2016.
His next book ALMOST A WISEGUY was written with and about a friend’s life in the Mafia. That project evolved into a podcast and an audio book.
He now lives in Santa Fe NM
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE, NM
Producer and host: Abigail Adler
Guest: David Keplinger
David Keplinger is Professor of Literature in the MFA Program at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of five collections of poetry- the latest one just out this year is Another City (Milkweed, 2018).
He is the recipient of many prestigious awards. His book, The Prayers of Others, won the Colorado Book Award. His first collection, The Rose Inside, was chosen by the poet Mary Oliver for the 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize.
In 2011 he produced By and By, an album of eleven songs based on the poetry of his great-great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran.
His work has been included in numerous anthologies in the United States, as well as in China and Northern Ireland,
He has collaborated to translate works from Danish and German.
He has taught at universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia- as well as in the summer creative writing institute at John Cabot University in Rome.
David Keplinger joins us by phone from Washington DC