Sep 23, 2025 | Author Interviews
Award-winning writer Marybeth Holleman talks with Mike Chmielewski about her new book. Raised by North Carolina’s Smokies, she now lives in the embrace of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. Her essays, poetry, and articles have appeared in numerous journals, magazines,...
Sep 15, 2025 | Author Interviews
Mike Chmielewski talks with Larri Spengler about her first novel, “Taking Time: Sailing with My Family in Southeast Alaska.” Larri chronicles her family’s adventures on the sailboat Altariel. Larri, her husband, and daughter experienced a range of...
Sep 10, 2025 | Author Interviews
Sarah Lengler discusses with Mike Chmielewski the process of writing and publishing her first novel, Twin Pines. Mike asked Sarah what she had learned from writing her first book. Sarah says that she never knew how bad her grammar was. She notices everything around...
Aug 15, 2025 | Author Interviews
Mike Chmeilewski talks to award-winning novelist Juliette Fay about her new book, The Harvey Girls. This novel is based on the real Harvey Girls who were waitresses who served in America’s first hospitality chain on the Santa Fe railroad. The story centers on...
Aug 6, 2025 | Author Interviews
The Communist’s Secret is the second book in The Leningrad Trilogy, a gripping World War II tale with a complicated heroine. Katya is courageous, impulsive, and desperate, as she battles the Nazis and her demons in this story of second chances.
Aug 6, 2025 | Author Interviews
Impertinent Question is Dan O’Neill’s new book. He shares stories with Mike about being a liberal columnist at a conservative newspaper in the red state of Alaska. Dan says that his fidelity is to accuracy, truth, and putting history together.
