Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Air Traffic by Greogory Pardlo
    Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor
    organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he
    loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981,
    he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the fam...
    32 min
  • The Green Burial Guidebook by Elizabeth Fournier
    Emily Young talks to author Elizabeth Fournier about her new book The Green
    Burial Guidebook.
    Funeral expenses in the United States average more than $10,000. And every
    year conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and
    metals, as well as millions o...
    28 min
  • Be With
    Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core
    Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into
    the exquisite nature of intimacy
    "Utterly naked and bereft, elegies, apologies, could-have-beens, Gander
    grieves and wonde...
    32 min
  • Tonight I'm Somone Else
    Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the
    proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own
    bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and
    sharing. Starting with Hodson’s own work exper...
    1 hr 2 min
  • TO THE BRIDGE: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
    “In TO THE BRIDGE, Nancy Rommelmann takes what many consider the most
    unforgivable of crimes—a mother set on murdering her own children—and
    delivers something thoughtful and provocative: a deeply reported, sensitively
    told, all-too-relevant tragedy of addiction and codep...
    32 min
  • Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
    A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our
    time . . . In great personal detail, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
    poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before, after, and during the
    war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”...
    0 min
  • Motherhood
    In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman
    becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood
    with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international
    acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? re...
    32 min

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