- Street:
- Crystal Ballroom at the Leopold Retirement Residence
- Additional:
- 1224 Cornwall
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Country:
- United States
The Chuckanut Radio Hour is a radio variety show that began in January, 2007 and is regularly broadcast on KMRE LP 102.3 FM and seen on KVOS TV. You may listen to the programs in rotation each Saturday evening at 6pm and each Sunday evening at 9pm. You may listen to KMRE online at the times the show plays or...anytime. Check local listings for TV times. The show's first guest was Erik Larson and has since included William Dietrich, Elizabeth George, J.A. Jance, Sherman Alexie, Tom Robbins and Garrison Keillor, among many others.
Our author guest for our February show is Jonathan Evision, author of West of Here. Music is by the Prozac Mountain Boys; our Poets' Corner will be manned by resident poet, Kevin Murphy; Alan Rhodes will have another rib-tickling essay for us; and the Beans will likely be getting in even more trouble in our serial comedy sketch. Tickets are $5 each (one free with the purchase of West of Here, at the store, prior to the show) and online at Brown Paper Tickets.
Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State’s rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience—it is storytelling on the grandest scale. With one segment of the narrative focused on the town’s founders circa 1890, and another showing the lives of their descendants in 2006, the novel develops as a kind of conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past.
Jonathan Evison is an American writer best known for his debut novel All About Lulu published in 2008, which won critical acclaim, including the Washington State Book Award. In 2009, Evison was awarded a Richard Buckley Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. In his teens, Evison was the founding member and frontman of the Seattle punk band March of Crimes, which included future members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
