"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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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Gregory Pardlo's Digest, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
"He explores what is American, what is African American, what is the Other,
what is city, what is suburban, what is personal and what is persona. Digest
offers a changing, rich landscape of verse, both haunting...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The
Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly.
"Supremely literary, distinctly unusual . . . VanderMeer’s deep talent for
worldbuilding takes him into realms more remini...
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