Writing Guideposts

After 75 years, the last race will be run at Hollywood Park this coming Sunday. Once the celebrity playground of Hollywood stars, who owned thoroughbreds and stock in the racetrack, it's slated to become a multi-billion dollar mixed use development in the heart of Inglewood. Producer David Weinberg visits the track.

Saying goodbye to Hollywood Park

Madeleine Brand talks to David Weinberg about his "Random Tape" podcast and plays some amazing tape. On KCRW's Press Play on Monday 3/17/14.

RANDOM TAPE

Hannah Tinti is a writer, editor, and teacher.  Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. She is now finishing a new novel.

Hannah has worked at bookstores, magazines, publishing houses, and literary agencies. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning magazine One Story and for the past 12 years has been its Editor in Chief. In 2009 she received the PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing and in 2014 One Story won the AWP Prize for Best Small Press. In 2011, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator, interviewing authors and actors about the importance of literature and reading.

More at www.hannahtinti.com

More on First Draft on Aspen Public Radio: aspenpublicradio.org/programs/first-draft


First Cuts from First Draft - Hannah Tinti

An intimate and imagined conversation with Studs Terkel about the edges of life and death.

Winner of the 2015 People's Choice Award for Third Coast International Audio Festival's ShortDocs Challenge: Studs Rules
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competitions/shortdocs/2015

http://thirdcoastfestival.org/library/1675-where-do-i-find-you-now

Where Do I Find You Now?

This story was produced for KCRW's 24-hour Radio Race.

In the city of New Orleans - the Big Easy - it's a syrupy, sultry, slow passage of time. For Johnny Angel, time changes everything.

NOLA: Crawfish and Cowboys

I'm Marco Werman.
 
This upscale Persian carpet store in LA is all about imported rugs.
 
Some came here from Iran long before the US trade ban.
 
CLIP: "The rugs that were made 150 years ago, doesn't have anything to do with politics."
 
Now politics is getting out of the rug business.
 
As Iranian imports become legal once again.
 
Our story on The World.

Photo: Saul Gonzalez

PREVIEW: Iranian rug imports, legal again

ERIC DRACHMAN: Wife and Wife

Jamie and Marisa’s love is irresistible. It’s so sweet, Jamie worried it would sound saccharine, but it’s true and kind and generous. And it’s about to be celebrated by their "favorite dearest sweetests" at their wedding. Even a  few years ago, they wouldn’t have been able to legally marry each other, but today they are glowing with the anticipation of celebrating with family, friends, and even the state.

Special thanks to my brother, Evan Drachman, for the use of his beautiful cello recording of “Menuets - Bach Suite No. 1 In G Major” from his album, “Full Circle”!

Photo by: Matt Sumell

ERIC DRACHMAN: Wife and Wife (2016 Radio Race)

Michael Silverblatt hosts Joan Didion for an exclusive Bookworm Book Club interview, asking her the questions that have come out of the discussion around her novel, "Play It As It Lays."

Highlights include Joan's revealing response to a question regarding the famed opening lines of her book, "What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask."

To join the KCRW Bookworm Book Club: http://www.facebook.com/groups/KCRWBookwormBookClub/

Joan Didion for Bookworm Book Club: Full "Play It As It Lays" Interview

KCRW's Saul Gonzalez explores the rise and fall of Los Angeles fashion company American Apparel.

The Rise and Fall of American Apparel

Everything You've Ever Felt (with Lady Midnight and Mike Massey)

Raúl Pacheco and Ulises Bella from Ozomatli stopped by KCRW's Santa Barbara studio before their show at the Lobero Theater. They spoke with KCRW's Larry Perel about their eclectic style, hunting for 20-year-old tapes hidden in a vault on a mountain and their new album, Non-Stop: Mexico to Jamaica.

Ozomatli at KCRW's Santa Barbara studio

Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW is one of the most respected and progressive radio stations in the world, featuring an eclectic mix of independent music, NPR news, talk and arts programming. 
 

Joan Didion for Bookworm Book Club: Full "Play It As It Lays" Interview

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