Between The Covers

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 p... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Geraldine Brooks, best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for March) about her new book, CALEB’S CROSSING, which was inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard Colleg... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with local writer Heather Sharfeddin about her new book "Damaged Goods," a novel of redemption and second chances set in the Willamette Valley. Heather Sharfeddin's other books are "Sweetwater Burning" and "Windless Summer." http://sharfeddin.com/   Read more

The guest is Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States, and author of the new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. Pacelle will discuss the deep links of the human-animal bond as wll as the conflicting implulses tha... Read more

Host Lyn Moelich spoke with Tod Davies, author of Snotty Saves the Day:  The History of Arcadia. In this fantasy from Exterminating Angel Press, a manuscript, delivered by Owl, is left under an old fir tree in the snow, and another world's scientists have discovered that... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with fiction writer Peter Mountford about his new novel A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, which tells the story of Gabriel de Boya, a recent college graduate who works for an unscrupulous hedge fund while pretending to be a freelance ... Read more

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The guest is Portland writer Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the new memoir "The Chronology of Water." The themes in the memoir include womanhood, motherhood, stillbirth, women's reproductive rights, bisexuality, love and fatherhood, promiscuity and sexual violence, drug a... Read more