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Kathleen Little, an employee in the children's book department at a San Mateo bookstore called "M Is For Mystery," talks about some of her favorites including "America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book" by Robert Sabuda and "Ida B:...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World" by Katherine Hannigan. The full interview from these 2004 episodes of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-m-is-for-mystery--45142049.

Renee Linnell, Author of "The Burn Zone: A Memoir," explains how we teach people how to treat us and talks about the surprising things she experienced at her first meditation seminar. The full interview from this 2018 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/linnell-the-burn-zone--16013051. A special version that includes behind-the-scenes audio from the interview can be found here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/linnell-the-burn-zone-session--43325899.

Yiyun Li, Author of "Kinder Than Solitude," explains the book title and how one of the goals of the novel was to encourage people to look at everything more closely in life instead of skipping through. The full interview from this 2014 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/li-kinder-than-solitude--45094869.

Steve Levine, Author of "Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia," talks about how former KGB and defector Alexander Litvinenko differed from investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya even though both were harsh critics of Vladimir Putin. The full interview from this 2008 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://youtu.be/D7MuwV7JI8g?si=lhlzbsEu1Ywjv4DU. Photo: http://stevelevinebooks.com/

Peter Lerangis, Author of "The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, Book 3)," talks about the challenges of writing a book in a series where the previous book was written by a different author. The full interview from this 2009 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lerangis-the-sword-thief-the-39-clues-book-3--44973360. Photo: Jim Foster.

On this special episode, host and producer Jim Foster speaks with technical producer Robert Costa about how "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" became a long-running program airing on various radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area for several decades, and also speaks about how the book publishing world has changed over the years, where the industry is going next, and many other subjects including his favorite author guest, plus a cameo by Executive Board Member Julie! This discussion took place on the occasion of the last airing of the program on its longtime San Francisco radio frequency 960 AM in 2014, in San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Costa.

In "The Whole World Over," author Julia Glass writes a novel about all the little accidents in life that come together to determine our choices in love and connections to others in the world. This second discussion about the book took place on a 2007 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Costa.

In "Perfidia," author James Ellroy writes a historical novel and the first volume of his second L.A. Quartet series, set in Los Angeles in 1941 that follows the story of several very different people who come together to investigate the murder of a Japanese family as America is at the brink of World War II. This discussion with the author took place on a 2014 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: jamesellroy.net

In "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions," author Sister Helen Prejean talks about her first-hand experiences witnessing the execution of Dobie Gillis Williams in 1999 and Joseph Roger O'Dell in 1997, how poor people are primarily affected by wrongful executions, and why the execution of Michael Morales was postponed indefinitely in 2006 and led to a moratorium on capital punishment in California. This third discussion with the author took place on a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: sisterhelen.org

In "Dorchester Terrace: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel," the late author Anne Perry writes the next novel in a series in which Thomas Pitt is now the head of Britain's Special Branch, and follows the story of him and his wife trying to get information from two women in order to prevent an international catastrophe. This conversation took place on a 2012 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: anneperry.us

In "Her Wild Oats," the late author Kathi Kamen Goldmark writes a novel about two people at very different points in their lives who develop an unlikely friendship, a thirteen-year-old boy who plays the harmonica, and a young woman who recently discovered her husband was having an affair. In this discussion, the late author's husband Sam Barry talks about her life and how they completed the book after her passing. This conversation took place on a 2015 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: Chronicle / Eric Luse

In "And the Dark Sacred Night," author Julia Glass writes a novel about a man's quest to find his biological father and what he discovered along the journey about himself and the world. This discussion took place on a 2014 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Costa.

In this episode, Jim Foster shares his thoughts on the publishing scandal surrounding James Frey's memoir "A Million Little Pieces" and why a memoir by Heather King entitled "Parched" is more meaningful surrounding the subject of alcoholism and addiction, especially considering the fact that many things written as personal experiences in Frey's memoir were later found to be exaggerated or completely false. Book stores later recategorised Frey's memoir as fiction instead of non-fiction. This discussion took place on a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo Credit: Robert Costa