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<p>Welcome to "Bibliocracy."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://bibliocracyradio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here's a
first gentle assault in my otherwise low-tech publicity blitz to support
"Bibliocracy," the weekly literary arts program I host on KPFK
starting Monday, January 14 at noon. I hope you will listen, either live
(on radio or stream) or via station archives library later. Please do
tell friends, bookmark my blog (where I will post program information and offer
a calendar, eventually), add "Bibliocracy" as a link to your own
blog, and feel free to share this email. If you like the show, or want to
support my efforts, do contact the station with positive comments. And
when the fund drive begins, February 12 - 26, please do subscribe as a
supporting member of the station and mention your enthusiasm for
"Bibliocracy." I will have arranged for a few special literary
"thank you" subscription premiums to be available. Finally, I
am eager to receive suggestions, advice, ideas for guests and books. Note
that the program will focus largely on literary fiction and nonfiction, though
I am thrilled to feature the poetry of multi-talented Al Young (novelist,
memoirist, poet, and essayist) on the debut program. See below.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Bibliofella,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andrew
Tonkovich</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Bibliocracy"
airs Mondays, noon – 12:30 pm on Pacifica Radio KPFK, 90.7 FM in
Los Angeles/98.7 FM in Santa Barbara and live streaming online: <a
href="http://www.kpfk.org/" target="_blank"
title="blocked::http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.kpfk.org/ blocked::http://www.kpfk.org/">www.kpfk.org</a>.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Inaugural
program: Monday, January 14, 2008. Noon.
"Bibliocracy" debuts with an interview of novelist, essayist,
educator, activist, blues man and California state poet laureate Al
Young. His latest collection in a long and remarkable career, <i>Something
About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection</i>, features new poems and a CD
of recorded live readings with musical accompaniment. For more on Al
Young see <a href="http://www.aboutalyoung.org/" target="_blank"
title="blocked::http://www.aboutalyoung.org/ http://www.aboutalyoung.org/">http://www.aboutalyoung.org</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Upcoming
programs:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Judith
Freeman, author of <i>The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He
Loved. </i>"This elegant, stirring book plumbs a great mystery, one
hidden, from even Chandler's many devoted readers, in plain sight.
Freeman's book is a mediation on marriage, a persuasive biographical and
literary study, and, best of all, one of those rare books, like Nicholson
Baker's <i>U and I</i> or Geoff Dyer's <i>Out of Sheer Rage</i>, where one
writer's study of another takes the form of a confessional fugue on the writing
act itself." - Jonathan Lethem</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Editor
and contributors to <i>Latinos in Lotusland</i>: Daniel Olivas (<i>Devil
Talk</i>), Reyna Grande (<i>Across a Hundred Mountains</i>) and Michael
Jaime-Becerra (<i>Every Night is Ladies Night</i>). A landmark anthology
of Latino writing on Southern California spanning sixty years and all genres,
with classic writing and contributions from new writers. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Terese
Svoboda, author of the Graywolf Prize-winning <i>Black Glasses Like Clark Kent:
A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan</i>. As a child Svoboda thought of her
uncle as Superman, with "Black Clark Kent glasses and grapefruit-sized
biceps." At nearly eighty, he could still boast a washboard
stomach. When he asks his author niece to write a book about his time in
Japan as guard at a military prison and begins recording his war stories on
audio tapes, Svoboda reluctantly agrees to listen. With the simultaneous
news of Abu Ghraib, her invincible uncle falls into a terrible depression ---
and the tapes abruptly end with his suicide. Intrigued by her uncle's
implications of foul play at the Japanese prison, Svoboda launches her own
investigation, traveling to Japan, digging through buried files at the National
Archives, and contacting the few remaining vets who served with her
uncle. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Toni
Mirosevich, author of <i>Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance</i>, a
collection of personal and political essays which won the "First
Series: Creative Nonfiction" Prize from Mid-List Press.
Mirosevich is author of fiction and essays, poetry and a chapbook, in addition
to the collections <i>The Rooms We Make Our Own </i>and<i> Queer Street. </i>"Mirosevich
writes the multitudinal facets of the DNA of a human soul…no, the DNA of all of
gigantic humanity. Reading along, I am hopelessly snagged between
reverence and out-of-control brays of laugher. Mirosevich is breathlessly
wise, and she's a smartass." <i>Carolyn Chute.</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stay
tuned!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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