Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Monsters I Have Been
    “Kenji Liu’s Monsters I Have Been writhes knotty tentacles through
    textual boneyards," raves Douglas Kearny, "disturbing screenplays,
    theoretical works, and literatures in their coffined-off sleeps... Sharp,
    protean, dexterous, and discontent―Liu’s collection shows where th...
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  • Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
    Host Ken Jones talks with Karen Russell, author of the new book Orange World
    and Other Stories.
    Orange World is Karen’s fifth book, following the novel Swamplandia!, the
    novella Sleep Donation, and two collections of short fiction – St. Lucy’s
    Home for Girls Raised by Wolv...
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  • Mother Winter
    The lyrical prose of Sophia Shalmiyev’s memoir, Mother Winter, splits open
    like layer after layer of an ornate matryoshka. With a mesmeric voice and
    scathing vulnerability, Shalmiyev peels her past down to its hollow core: the
    vacancy left by her absent mother. Across ti...
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  • Magical Negro
    “Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states
    of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop
    thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet
    unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ...
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  • The Taiga Syndrome
    “The contemporary Latin American detective novel is a form that uses the
    individual’s rollicking quest as a means of resistance against repressive
    structures and the violences they engender. Cristina Rivera Garza’s The
    Taiga Syndrome, in this stellar translation by Suzan...
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  • MYKU: My Portland by Meg Vogt
    Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs
    and poems MYKU: My Portland.
    “MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in
    three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s
    MYKU’s with photographs from her...
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  • Temper CA by Paul Skenazy
    Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Skenazy, author of the new novel Temper CA,
    from Miami University Press.
    Paul’s essays, stories, and book reviews have appeared in a range of
    newspapers and magazines, and he’s published critical work on noir writers
    such as Dashiell Hammett,...
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  • This Never Happened by Liz Scott
    Host Ken Jones talks with Liz Scott, author of the new memoir This Never
    Happened, from University of Hell Press.
    Liz is a practicing psychologist in Portland, and a practicing writer. Her
    work has appeared in The MacGuffin, New Stone Circle, and Lake Effect, among
    other j...
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