Host Dan Johnson interviews Oregon writer Patrick deWitt about his new novel
The Sisters Brothers, in which he pays homage to the classic Western,
transforming it into a comic tour de force. The cast of characters includes
losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all strip...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with jounalist and author Peggy Orenstein
about her book "Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of
the New Girlie-Girl Culture." In writing this book Orenstein set out to
discover the origins and ramifications of the cult...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Northwest writer Jonathan Evison,
author of "West of Here," the award-winning novel that became an instant New
York Times bestseller and the #1 Indie Next Pick in hardcover. West of Here
is set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on W...
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Environmentalist and best-selling author Frances Moore Lappé is interviewed
by Michelle Schroeder Fletcher about her book Ecomind: Changing the Way We
Think, to Create the World We Want. Lappé, author of the best-selling Diet
for a Small Planet, and co-founder of the Small ...
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On Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews poet and dramatist
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and poet, teacher and founder of the Attic
Institute, David Biespiel.
Ms. Gutiérrez talks about the process of writing and the difficulty and
necessity of the writer trustin...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with writer Lev Grossman about his new book
"The Magician King."
Lev Grossman is the author of the bestselling novels "The Magicians" and
"Codex: A Novel". A well-known cultural commentator, he is the book critic
for TIME magazine and has wri...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Carter Sickels about his novel The
Evening Hour.
In the economically depressed, shifting landscape of Dove Creek, West
Virginia, 27-year-old Cole Freeman works as an aide in a nursing home — but
deals drugs on the side to make ends meet....
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Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen
days, "On Canaan's Side" opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill.
Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee
Ireland, at the end of the First World War, a...
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Host Robyn Shanti speaks with John Jeremiah Sullivan about his book of essays
"Pulphead," A New York Times Notable Book for 2011. PULPHEAD presents
Sullivan’s profiles of musicians (Axl Rose, Michael Jackson, Bunny Wailer
and others) with his essays exploring American cultu...
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Host Jim Schumock speaks with writer Sebastian Barry about his novel "On
Canaan's Side.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen
days, "On Canaan's Side" opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill.
Lilly revisits her past, goin...
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