Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Light in Jerusalem: A Memoir: Stuart Perrin
    Stuart Perrin is an American spiritual master of Kundalini Yoga, and has
    been teaching meditation across the world for the past 45 years. He draws
    from his experiences in his newest novel, Light in Jerusalem: A Memoir. Set
    in 2006, in a time of war in the Middle East, hi...
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  • Junk
    Tommy Pico's “Junk is a true American odyssey, complete with a reluctant
    hero who defies all odds to survive. Repulsed by the trashiness of empire,
    the violence of occupation, this book nonetheless searches in earnest for
    real tenderness, a romance that isn’t corny. . . ...
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  • The Untold Gaze by Stephen O'Donnell and Gigi Little
    On this special hour-long edition of Between the Covers, we welcome Stephen
    O’Donnell and Gigi Little, creators and editors of the new book The Untold
    Gaze, which features selected paintings by Stephen, with short fiction and
    poetry inspired by those paintings. The texts we...
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  • Fox American Fictionary
    Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist Susan Sontag called a writer to
    follow and cherish, has been living in exile in Amsterdam since the Yugoslav
    wars of the early 90s.  Labeled a traitor and a witch when she vocally
    critiqued the rising ethno-nationalism of both ...
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  • Report to Megalopolis by Tod Davies
    Host Ken Jones talks with Tod Davies, author of the new novel Report to
    Megalopolis: or The Post-modern Prometheus, published by Exterminating Angel
    Press.
    Tod is the author of Snotty Saves the Day, Lily the Silent, and The
    Lizard Princess, the first three books in The His...
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  • Writing for Animals
    Essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing...
    Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view
    and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change
    its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how...
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  • Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
    The western novel is an American literary tradition, and our guest
    today, John Larison, has written one of the best ones in recent
    memory. Whiskey When We’re Dry tells the story of teenaged Jessilyn
    Harney, who when her father dies in the spring of 1885, dresses up like ...
    32 min
  • Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms
    "I feel like I can't tell one story about a giant mustard penis because it's
    not about a mustard penis only, but about all of these incidents together, in
    context, and through time." So begins the title story in Renee Simms's debut
    short story collection, Meet Behind Mar...
    32 min
  • Certain American States
    One of Granta’s Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting
    Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short
    fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary
    people seeking—and failing to find—the extr...
    1 hr 2 min

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