Between The Covers

This week on Between the Covers, we talk to the poet Julia Levine  about her new collection Ordinary Psalms.  Her fourth collection explores the sacred found in the earthly themes of mortality, the degradation of the sacred natural world, cruelty and the power of love to ho... Read more

Suzanne LaGrande speaks with author Trisha Thomas about her latest book, What Passes as Love.   Set in antebellum Virginia,  What Passes as Love tells the story of Dahlia Holt, a light-skinned black woman who works as a servant in the home of a large slave owner who is in... Read more

“Horses, in their capacity to heal, become a mirror of our   inner life. This is where and how the work begins. The horse   that chooses us reflects our deepest self to us.”   While in Costa Rica for a month to work on writing a book Rosalyn Berne decided to go to take ... Read more

 Suzanne LaGrande speaks with Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, authors of Forces of Nature: The Women: The Women Who Changed Science.   In this interview, Anna and Leila discuss:   The reasons why so few women scientists  have been included in the history of science Some o... Read more

On this special edition of Between the Covers, we talk with Whitney Otto, author of the new book Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives, from Ohio State University Press. Whitney is the author of five novels: How To Make an American Quilt -- a New York ... Read more