Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Jamie Harrison on "The Widow Nash"
    Host Bethany Grabow talks with Jamie Harrison, author of the new book The
    Widow Nash. A young woman is called in to uncover the missing profits after
    her dying father returns from a business deal empty-handed. Her father’s
    business partner, who also happens to be her ex-...
    32 min
  • Julie Israel on "Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index"
    Host Bethany Grabow talks with Julie Israel, author of the new book Juniper
    Lemon’s Happiness Index. It is the story of a teen girl struggling to look
    on the bright side while dealing with the loss of her charismatic older
    sister and navigating the perils of high school....
    32 min
  • My Private Property
    "Mary Ruefle is, in this humble bookseller’s opinion, the best
    prose-writing poet in America. (And one of our best poets, too.) My Private
    Property, her latest collection of stories, essays, and asides, is as joyous
    and singular a book as you’ll read... "--Stephen Sparks...
    32 min
  • American War by Omar El Akkad
    An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a
    devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that
    asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies
    and deadly weapons upon itself.
    Sarat Chestnut, born...
    1 hr 2 min
  • Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera
    "Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist." —Francisco Goldman
    "The relationship between art and violence is at the core of Herrera’s slim
    yet powerful novel about the various members of a drug-trafficking ring in an
    unnamed territory allegorically aligned with northern Mex...
    32 min
  • Announcements from the Planetarium by Judith Arcana
    Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of poems
    Announcements from the Planetarium, published by Oregon’s own Flowstone
    Press.
    Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a
    biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s Life...
    32 min
  • Victoria Stoppiello on "This Side of Sand Island"
    Former KBOO Station Manager Victoria Stoppiello discusses her collection of
    essays, This Side of Sand Island: Reflections on Fish, Finns and Finding out
    about Family on the Lower Columbia with host Kathleen Stephenson.
    Victoria originally wrote the essays for the coastal...
    32 min
  • Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
    In this special hour-long episode, host Ken Jones talks with Cory Doctorow,
    author of the new science-fiction novel Walkaway.
    In addition to his role as sci-fi novelist, Cory’s a technology activist,
    journalist, and blogger. His work includes the non-fiction book Informatio...
    58 min
  • Hourglass by Dani Shapiro
    What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make
    lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously
    shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in
    flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected,...
    32 min
  • Tod Davies: The Importance of Story
    Tod Davies is a celebrated screenwriter, author, and founder of the
    independent publishing house Exterminating Angel Press.  Her early
    adventures working with youth in the streets of Liverpool roused her passion
    for the power of storytelling and helped inspire her trilog...
    30 min

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