February 14, 2023. This week on Bibliocracy Radio: Poet, translator, editor and anthologist Boris Dralyuk. In his debut collection My Hollywood, Dralyuk researches, revives, revisits memory and imagination via lives and locales, legends and forgotten achievements of immigrant artists, poets, writers, and songwriters of a singular neighborhood. An homage by way of memoir and biography, and an artful celebration by an elegant, playful, smart, and funny writer in multiple forms. Dralyuk is an editor, anthologist, poet, and translator. He’s the former Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

February 7, 2023. This week's guest on Bibliocracy Radio is the author of a book on labor justice organizing by way of memoir, the natural world and radical history. Daisy Pitkin's gorgeous On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union is one of my recent favorite nonfiction reads, a poetic mix of documentary and imaginative writing built on discovery, insight, and struggle. It’s about working with industrial laundry workers in the American Southwest, about friendship, betrayal, and victory, too. Organized as a letter and a manifesto, a journal and a political analysis, it’s a book about changing lives, including both the writer’s and, perhaps even readers’ lives.

It’s the triumphant return of Bibliocracy Radio, 2 PM on Tuesday, January 31 on KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California. And now as a podcast. On our first show back, I host a favorite writer, Karen Joy Fowler. Her novel Booth is one of my recent favorites, an elegant and richly entertaining reimagining of the family and world and politics of the infamous Booth family. It's a revelatory dramatization of everyday 19th century America, the Civil War, theater, a rendering in details and atmosphere and scenes and history which brings all involved to life. Thanks for supporting Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM and my own commitment to celebrating the best in contemporary writing. You can listen live on the radio or stream online, or listen to the podcast.