Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Afterglow
    “What is a dog if not god? In Afterglow, Eileen Myles steps up to the
    challenge for writers to function as prophets. Ghostwritten in part by
    deceased pit bull Rosie, this ‘dog memoir’ explores—among other
    things—geometry, gender, mortality, evil, aging, and plaids. Myles...
    32 min
  • The Western Star by Craig Johnson
    Dan Johnson speaks to author Craig Johnson about his latest work, The Western
    Strar...
    Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons
    certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff
    confronts him with a photograph of twen...
    1 hr 2 min
  • Little Fires Everywhere
    In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is
    planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the
    houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one
    embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, ...
    32 min
  • William Ritter on "The Dire King"
    Host Bethany Grabow talks with William Ritter, author of the new book The
    Dire King, the final book in the Jackaby series. It is the story of Jackaby,
    a detective of the supernatural, and his mortal yet clever assistant Abigail
    Rook as they battle evil forces threatening...
    32 min
  • Babbage's Dream by Neil Aitken
    "In stunningly elegant couplets, Neil Aitken transposes the dreams of
    machines and humans into musical, sonically deft lyrics that sing songs of
    ccreation, vision, possibility, futurity. These beautifully crafted poems --
    evoking the designs of nineteenth-century mathematic...
    32 min
  • Spells: A Novel within Photographs
    Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter
    Rock staved off the job’s inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make
    up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few
    years ago, reminded of the pleasures and play ...
    1 hr 2 min
  • Cannibal
    "Safiya Sinclair, a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award–winner, crafts her
    stunning debut collection around the beauty and brutality of the word
    cannibal, whose origins derive from Christopher Columbus’s belief that the
    Carib people he encountered consumed human flesh. Attacking...
    32 min
  • Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
    Jacqueline Woodson's latest novel, "Another Brooklyn" recently out in trade
    paper, was a 2016 National Book Award finalist. She talks about this poetic
    tale of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s with
    host Richard Wolinsky.  
    Running into a l...
    32 min
  • One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp
    Jake Vermaas speaks to poet Lauren Camp about her collection One Hundred
    Hungers.
    In her new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation
    Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells
    overlapping stories of food and ritual...
    32 min
  • Uncountry: A Mythology
    "As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Yanara
    Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the
    reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door,” a door
    through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling u...
    1 hr 2 min

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