FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH with Blake Melnick
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH with Blake Melnick
Latest Episodes
Behind the Fire - Part 1
In this episode of #thespaceinbetween, I sit down with author Ken Klonsky to unpack why he turns to memoir as a way to unify an unusual life and test the stories he has carried for decades. We discuss grief, inherited trauma, and the sometimes ...
Chapter 2 - Death World - San Diego California 1988
Situated in San Diego, California in 1988, Ken’s mind gets pulled backward by one simple question that never stopped echoing: Where’s Mom? We trace that question to September 1961, when a high school football concussion leaves a fi...
Chapter 1: Childhood Memories - The Bronx - 1946-1951
We return to a Bronx childhood where heat, fear, and secrecy shape memory before language can explain what it means. In this chapter, we follow Ken Klonsky’s early life on Wallace Avenue in the late 1940s and early 50s, where the st...
Out of the Fire - The Prologue
In this opening episode, Cameron Brown turns the mic around and interviews me, about why For What It’s Worth is launching season seven with a deeply personal narrative: An adaptation of Ken Klonsky’s memoir, Out Of The Fire.Last season ...