Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk
    Host Ken Jones talks with Leland Cheuk, author of the new novel No Good Very
    Bad Asian, from C&R Press.
     No Good Very Bad Asian is Leland’s third work of fiction, following his
    novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, and a collection of short stories,
    Letters from Dinosa...
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  • The Overstory
    The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping,
    impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation
    of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back
    to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel ...
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  • Nadene LeCheminant on her book "The Gates of Eden"
    Host Bethany Grabow talks with Nadene LeCheminant, author of the book The
    Gates of Eden. This historical fiction tells the story of Josephine Bell, a
    seventeen-year-old girl who leaves the slums of Liverpool for a Mormon
    settlement in Utah Territory in the 1850s, only to fi...
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  • In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps
    Rob Schlegel has a voice you’d follow into the dark woods, knowing full
    well it’s hard, awful, daily, plain, living truth you’re running toward.
    The speaker in this book is a heartbreaker of a storyteller—a synesthesiac
    of mixed feelings, bad news, and wordsmithery. I fe...
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  • This Particular Happiness by Jackie Shannon Hollis
    On this episode of Between the Covers, we'll hear Jackie Shannon Hollis,
    author of the new memoir This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story,
    from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press, in conversation with Liz Scott, author
    of the memoir This Never Happened.
    Jackie’s shor...
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  • The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld
    Host Ken Jones talks with Rene Denfeld, author of the new novel The Butterfly
    Girl, from Harper Collins.
    The Butterfly Girl is Rene’s second novel featuring private investigator
    Naomi Cottle, aka The Child Finder. The first book is aptly titled The Child
    Finder, and Rene a...
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  • Home Remedies
    Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and
    changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids)
    to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive
    stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new e...
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  • Four Men Shaking by Lawrence Shainberg
    Host Ken Jones talks with Lawrence Shainberg, author of the new book Four Men
    Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My
    Favorite Zen Teacher from Shambhala Publications.
    Lawrence is author of the memoir Ambivalent Zen: One Man's Adventures on ...
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