Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
    "Splendidly eccentric...Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts,
    squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a
    novel for you.” —Wall Street Journal
    "Ferociously intelligent...A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and
    cerebral w...
    30 min
  • Silk Poems
    Silk is compatible with body tissues; our immune system accepts it on
    surfaces as sensitive as the human brain. In conjunction with Tufts
    University’s cutting edge research on liquefied silk, Jen Bervin mixes
    poetry with medical technology in the form of a silk bio-senso...
    30 min
  • Things that Join the Sea and the Sky by Mark Nepo
    Mark Nepo has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,"
    "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher."  He is a
    bestselling author, publishing twenty books and recording fourteen audio
    projects.  Last year, he became a regular column...
    1 min
  • Favorite Daughter by Nancy Huang
    Favorite Daughter is a poetry collection trying to uproot America from inside
    the body, and find where China is buried underneath. Divided into four parts,
    Daughter explores ideas like navigating hybridity, localism, and harmony in
    ways that disturb commonly-held notions...
    32 min
  • Lacking Character by Curtis White
    Host Ken Jones talks with Curtis White, author of the new novel Lacking
    Character, published by Melville House.
    Curtis has published seven earlier books of fiction, including Memories of My
    Father Watching TV and Requiem. His nonfiction includes The Middle Mind: Why
    Americ...
    30 min
  • Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann
    Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of Carbon Ideologies,
    a new two-volume work about the factors and human actions that have led to
    global warming. The first volume – No Immediate Danger – is now
    available. And the second volume – No Good Alternative – go...
    44 min
  • Counternarratives
    “In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary
    counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what
    constitutes “real” or “accurate” history. His writing is at turns
    playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always compl...
    30 min
  • Up Up Down Down
    "Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to
    make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist,
    Christian, frat boy, and so on—appear newly strange, and newly open to
    analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist, a joyousl...
    30 min
  • California Calling by Natalie Singer
    Host Ken Jones talks with Natalie Singer, author of the new memoir
    California Calling: A Self-Interrogation, published by Portland’s Hawthorne
    Press. Natalie’s work has been published in a number of journals,
    magazines, and newspapers, including Literary Mama, the Washingto...
    30 min
  • Lullaby Road by James Anderson
    Host Ken Jones talks with James Anderson, author of the new novel Lullaby
    Road, and actor and activist Cosme Skywalker Duarte. James is a native of
    the Pacific Northwest, born in Seattle, raised in Portland, and a graduate of
    Reed College. He founded Breitenbush Books, a pu...
    29 min

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