Between The Covers

Between The Covers

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Between The Covers episodes

  • Alexander Maksik on "Shelter in Place"
    Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Alexander Maksik about his new novel,
    SHELTER IN PLACE, a story set on the Oregon Coast in the early 1990s.
     Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working class kid from Seattle, has
    just graduated from college and his future beckons, un...
    33 min
  • Emma Donoghue on "The Wonder"
    Host Bethany Grabow talks with Emma Donoghue, author of the new book The
    Wonder. This historical fiction follows Florence Nightingale-trained nurse
    Lib as she travels to rural Ireland in 1859 to determine whether a young girl
    who has purportedly survived with no food for...
    29 min
  • Olio by Tyehimba Jess
    In Olio Tyehimba Jess presents a musical history of the long fight against
    slavery, marshaling a vast cast of historical figures including the slaves,
    some freed, whose music was the basis for the blues and jazz in the 19th
    century. They ask, "Once burst loose from human...
    1 hr 3 min
  • Cascadia by Buzz Bernard
    A short time ago Buzz Bernard was in Portland and sat down with Dan Johnson
    about his latest thriller.
    Buzz Bernard is a former Oregon resident that has written a novel about the
    potential 'Big One'; the Tsunami and Earthquake that has long been talked
    about finally arr...
    33 min
  • Preview of Wordstock, Portland's Book Festival
    Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Andrew Proctor, Executive Director of
    Literary Arts and Amanda Bullock, Wordstock Festival Director
    about Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, which will be held at
    the Portland Art Museum and at venues in the surrounding South Park B...
    25 min
  • Dog Gone by Pauls Toutonghi
    “This is one of those rare books that reads you more than you read it. 
    It’s a family story, a pet story, a spiritual journey.  It’s almost a
    novel, except that it’s ‘true.’  It’s kind-hearted, crazy, and
    moving.  I found myself laughing.  I found myself with tears to wi...
    58 min
  • The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
    A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New
    York Times). The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot
    Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay
    An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex f...
    1 hr 2 min
  • The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
    "If you love stories but distrust them, if you love language and can also see
    how it is used as a tool or a weapon in the maintenance of status quo, then
    read The Winged Histories."— Marion Deeds, Fantasy Literature;  "Told by
    four different women, it is a story of war; ...
    1 hr 3 min

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