Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with David Vann about his debut novel Caribou
Island. Set on a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai
Peninsula Caribou Island captures the drama and pathos of a husband and
wife whose bitter love, failed dreams, and tragic past ...
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Host David Naimon speaks with writer Anthony Doerr about his latest book,
Memory Wall. Doerr is the author of three other books, The Shell
Collector, About Grace, andFour Seasons in Rome.
Doerr’s short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been
anthologized in The ...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Kenneth Sharpe, co-author with Barry
Schwartz of Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. In the
book, Schwartz and Sharpe make a reasoned appeal for wisdom in a world gone
mad with ineffectual rules and rampant bureaucracy...
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In Part 2 of today's special hour long Between the Covers host Crystal
Leighty speaks with Hazel Rowley, author of FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR: An
Extraordinary Marriage.
In this biography, Rowley sheds new light on the first modern marriage in the
White House. Award-wining auth...
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In part 1 of today's hour long Between the Covers program host Ed Goldberg
speaks with Kate Morton, author of "The Distant Hours," a modern gothic, with
spooky castle, madness, and a family curse.
Kate Morton is the eldest of three sisters. She was born in South Australia
...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Steve Berry, author of "The Emperor's Tomb," a
thriller about the internal politics of China and the politics of oil.
Steve Berry is also the author of "The Balkan Escape," "The Paris Vendetta,"
"The Charlemagne Pursuit," "The Venetian Betray...
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Host David Naimon speaks with Nicole Krauss about her newest novel, The Great
House, which tells a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our
children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to
disappearance, destruction, and change?
"The...
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Writer, poet and activist Grace Paley's birthday is December 11 (born in
1922, she died in 2007). In honor of Grace Paley Between the Covers presents
an interview with local author Judith Arcana, who is Grace Paley's
biographer, as well as parts of memorial show produced by...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with mystery writer Jeffery Deaver about his book,
The Burning Wire, a thriller about a killer who uses the New York electric
grid as a weapon.
A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an
international number-one bestselling ...
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Northwest writer Patrick McManus about his new
book, "The Huckleberry Murders," a tale of murder and greed in rural Idaho.
"The Huckleberry Murders" is the fourth Bo Tully mystery. The 43-year-old
Blight County, Idaho, sheriff is headed for his f...
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