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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 wri... more

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My guest this week is Lisa K. Richter, who has written an elegant multi-form memoir meets biography, a book constructed in a series of short, impressionist, lyrical recollections and insights, portraits and meditations, all with music in the backgrou... more

My guests this week have not made books, they have helped make history. They are academic workers. Yes, this is ostensibly a literary arts show but Bibliocracy often features discussion with activists, teachers, researchers, cultural critics, and his... more

My guest this week in part two of a two-part show is Christopher Mathias, a journalist with a long career of covering the far right, including at HuffPost, The Guardian, MSNBC and Zeteo. His investigative reporting has charted the role of racist and ... more

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 journals, here assembled thanks to Flo... more

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 author of Full of Life:... more

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 has won multiple literary prizes, and is a three-time... more

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,” a narrative which celebrates a vi... more

My guest this week is journalist and activist Tracy Rosenthal, author of a terrific long piece at the new issue of a favorite online journal, Hammer & Hope, where they report on ICE raids in Los Angeles by way of the incredible Los Angeles Tenants Un... more

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Recent Guests

Lisa K. Richter
Writer and poet, author of Fly, My Darling
Author of Fly, My Darling
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa K. Richter on Fly, My Darling
Kerri McCanna
Union leader; UC Irvine Ph.D. student at the time; bargaining team member for Student Services and Advising Professionals (UAW 4811)
UC Irvine; UAW 4811
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Higher Ed Union Victories
Kien Le
Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media Studies; union participant and strike captain; co-lead in UAW 4811 activities
UC Irvine; UAW 4811
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Higher Ed Union Victories
Christopher Mathias
Journalist and author of To Catch a Fascist
Author, To Catch a Fascist
Episode: Christopher Mathias on To Catch a Fascist
Stephen Cooper
Biographer, scholar, and writer; expert on John Fante; professor emeritus of English
California State University, Long Beach; What Books Press (publisher)
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen Cooper on River of Angels
Gustavo Hernandez
Poet; author of Bachelor and Flower Grand First; former poet laureate of Orange County
Flower Song Press; Santa Ana, California
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Gustavo Hernandez on Bachelor
Terese Svoboda
Author of Hitler and My Mother-in-Law
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Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
Maria Dolores Águila
Author of A Sea of Lemon Trees
Author, The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Maria Dolores Aguila on A Sea of Lemon Trees
Tracy Rosenthal
Freelance journalist, activist, LATU co-founder
Los Angeles Tenants Union / Hammer & Hope
Episode: Bibliocracy Radio: Tracy Rosenthal at Hammer and Hope

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Andrew Tonkovich
Host of Bibliocracy Radio and editor of the Santa Monica Review, with expertise in literary arts and community engagement.

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Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa K. Richter on Fly, My Darling
Q: Could you talk a little about the formal choice to make in art a version of what we might call a daybook or a journal?
Richter explains she used fragments and journals to create a cohesive sense over time, balancing emotional intensity with deliberate gaps and silences to allow the reader to engage with memory and music rather than imposing a linear narrative.
Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
Q: But what this country demands right now is a general strike. It demands laughing out loud, pointing, and provoking this clown fascist regime. What are your thoughts about this world of information and fake information that we're living in just all too painfully at the moment?
The respondent emphasizes the need to scrutiny every report and source, question credibility, and rely on trusted outlets while recognizing how propaganda and AI complicate truth, urging careful, systemic fact-checking and skepticism.
Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
Q: And I guess my only question is the book could be even longer and this is your second or third so-called memoir?
Second. You left out the jokes. I put a lot of jokes in that book.
Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen Cooper on River of Angels
Q: What do you think, Stephen? Catholic noir?
Cooper acknowledges the descriptor as a fitting angle and reflects on how Catholic imagery and moral concerns appear across the stories, lending a sense of spiritual conflict within a gritty, realist setting.
Bibliocracy Radio: Tracy Rosenthal at Hammer and Hope
Q: What motivated you to embed yourself in the Home Depot raids and document the LATU's response?
Rosenthal explains that the motivation was to capture the material realities of displacement, the daily risks faced by workers, and the creative, on-the-ground strategies communities develop to defend themselves, which also reveals the political economy behind labor and housing struggles.

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