Welcome to WYSO's fiction universe—a celebration of storytelling that spans genres, generations, and the boundless imagination of writers who craft the narratives that move us. As Southwest Ohio's community-owned public radio station, WYSO 91.3 FM is your gateway to the most compelling voices in contemporary fiction.
From intimate author conversations to deep dives into the books that define our literary moment, we bring you closer to the stories that matter and the writers who tell them with passion, craft, and authenticity.
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From the 2002 archives: Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman discusses her young adult novel "Matilda Bone," set in medieval England's fascinating world of early medicine. -
Otto Penzler, founder of Mysterious Press, discusses his new holiday anthology featuring classic crime writers and reflects on 50 years in mystery publishing. -
Robert Goldsborough discusses his 40-year journey as the continuator of Rex Stout's beloved Nero Wolfe mystery series and his latest novel, "The White Mountain." -
The Domingo the Bounty Hunter series kicks off with the simultaneous release of the first two books in this series by Filipino-American author Cindy Fazzi. -
The fourth book in a series about a teacher who can see ghosts tackles the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in a Michigan resort town setting. -
A fantastic year for crime novels gets even better with this latest one from Lou Berney. The Mercurio family flees Vegas for Oklahoma City in this entertaining tale. -
If you could go back in time to change a few things, would you do it? Philip King does just that in a delightful fantasy novel that's part sci-fi, part memoir. -
Thirty years ago when Cindy Fazzi wrote this novel about undocumented immigrants, no publisher would touch it. They said nobody would want to read it. How times changed. -
A new private eye series set in the Appalachian region kicks off with a search for two girls who vanished without a trace 10 years ago. Annie Gore investigates. -
Barbara Taylor Bradford was in her mid-40s when she published her first novel. It sold more than 30 million copies. Over her long career, she sold more than 90 million. -
This second book in Eric Rickstad's new crime fiction series with elements of horror and science fiction is quite a page-turner. FBI agents hunt deadly psychic killers. -
Landon Keaton from Ponitz Career Tech interviews beloved author Lois Lowry about her Newbery Award-winning novel "The Giver" and the power of reading.
