Between the Covers

  Today on Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews artist, writer and author Austin Kleon discussing his latest book Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Time... Read more

  Today on Between The Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews Caroline Criado Perez, writer,  broadcaster, feminist activist and author of Invisible Women: Gender Bias in a World Designed for Men. Recently published, Invisible Women explores how data helps perpetuate gen... Read more

  Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer, lecturer and author Thomas Hager, discussing his newly published book, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine   Behind every landmark drug is a story. It coul... Read more

  “This is more than Mitchell S. Jackson’s story, and as he traces his great-grandparents’ exodus from Alabama to Portland and the subsequent lives of his relatives…he captures the cyclical nature of poverty and neglect…The prose is a stunning mix of internal monologue and... Read more

  “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep a... Read more

On this episode of Between the Covers, we'll hear Sarah McColl, author of the new memoir Joy Enough, in conversation with Portland writer Margaret Malone, author of the story collection People Like You. Sarah was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo Food and holds an MFA from ... Read more

  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's memoir, The End of San Francisco (City Lights 2013), won a Lambda Literary Award in transgender nonfiction, and her most recent anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Des... Read more

  How does a body do what it does: make love, mistakes, create life, exist after life; how does a body evolve, celebrate, regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit Geode, a book that I could not stop reading onc... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Thomas Kohnstamm, author of the new novel Lake City, from Counterpoint Press. Lake City tells the story of Lane Bueche, a 27 year-old reluctant adult, born and raised in the Northeast Seattle neighborhood Lake City, a place untouched by the growth... Read more