Former Portlander Cary Groner talks about his novel Exiles, the story of an
American volunteer doctor and his teenage daughter whose lives are
irrevocably changed when they move to Kathmandu and find themselves in the
midst of civil war.
Cary Groner studied Buddhist medita...
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Host David Naimon interviews Portland writer Scott Sparling about his debut
novel, Wire to Wire, from Tin House Books.
A pick of the week by Publisher's Weekly, they call Wire to Wire "well
crafted and thrilling, tying together an obvious love for both Michigan and
railroa...
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Bruce Silverman interviews short story writer Daniel Orozco and he reads
from his new collection "Orientation". Orozco also talks about how he
writes--creating characters, wrting from one's own experience versus from
someone else's perspective, and other tricks of the trade...
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In part two of today's Between the Covers host Ed Goldberg speaks with
Portland writer Trevor Richardson about his debut novel "American Bastards,"
a surreal novel of self-discovery and hipster culture. In this novel a
number of dead rock stars try to save the world, a ...
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Dan Johnson interviews Portland writer and teacher Paul Collins about his
most recent book "The Crime of The Century" A story literally ripped from the
headlines about one of grizzliest murders in American history. In addition,
we are introduced to Yellow Journalism from tw...
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Portland writer, television host and
robotics engineer Daniel Wilson, author of the technothriller
"Robopocalypse," which explores the fate of the human race following a robot
uprising.
Wilson has an M.S. and P.H.D. in Robotics, and an ...
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Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about
his first novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", named after a Hank
Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story
of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T...
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Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about
his first novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, named after a Hank
Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story
of the defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T...
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The guest is Portland writer Bill Deresiewicz, author of A JANE AUSTEN
EDUCATION: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things
that Really Matter.
When Bill Deresiewicz was forced to read Jane Austen in graduate school, he
discovered that Austen was perh...
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