Community of Writers Podcasts
Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers.
Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.
Podcasting since 2024 • 96 episodes
Community of Writers Podcasts
Latest Episodes
Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
My guest this week is Terese Svoboda, author of two dozen books, in addition to short stories, poems, journalism, with work in The Atlantic, Slate, the New Yorker and the Santa Monica Review. She...
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Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen Cooper on River of Angels
My guest this week is Stephen Cooper, the leading biographer, scholar, and booster of the writer John Fante. He is winner of an NEA for his fiction, a filmmaker, and creative writing teacher at CSULB for many years. He is the autho...
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Season 5
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Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Gustavo Hernandez on Bachelor
My guest this week is poet Gustavo Hernandez, last on this show to discuss his breakout poetry collection Flower Grand First. He is out now with Bachelor, six dozen short poems, many of which appeared in leading ...
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Season 5
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Bibliocracy Radio: Maria Dolores Aguila on A Sea of Lemon Trees
My guest this week is María Dolores Águila, out now with A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez. It’s a poetic work of YA historical fiction inspired by the defining early 1930s “Lemon Grove Incident,”...
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Season 5
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