Chuckanut Radio Hour with Alexandra Fuller

This month, Village Books is hosting not just one but two Chuckanut Radio Hours. The first guest, on Wednesday, February 4, is Alexandra Fuller, whose new memoir is Leaving Before the Rains Come. Fuller takes on the rise and fall of her own marriage and addresses how her father shaped her view of the world. In hopes of understanding what went wrong and finding ways to rebuild her life after a painful divorce, Fuller turns to her African past for answers. Alexandra Fuller is the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgiveness. The Chuckanut Radio Hour, a recipient of Bellingham’s prestigious Mayor’s Arts Award, is a radio variety show that began in January 2007. Each Chuckanut Radio Hour includes guest authors, musicians, performance poet Kevin Murphy, Cascadia Weekly columnist Alan Rhodes, and episodes of “The Bellingham Bean” serial radio comedy, not to mention groaner jokes by hosts Chuck & Dee Robinson and announcer Rich Donnelly. The Chuckanut Radio Hour’s first guest was Erik Larson and has since included Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth George, Cheryl Strayed, Sherman Alexie, Tom Robbins and Garrison Keillor, among many others. The Radio Hour airs every Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. and Sunday at 9:00 p.m. on SPARK RADIO, KMRE 102.3FM.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and you must be seated by 6:45 p.m. as the show begins promptly at 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by Whatcom Community College Foundation, 12th Street Shoes, and Westside Pizza.