On the March 25, 2010, airing of Between the Covers, host Crystal Leighty
interviews Chris Bohjalian, the author of thirteen books, including the new
novel, Secrets of Eden, a story of shattered faith, intimate secrets and the
delicate exploration of the nature of sacrifice...
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg interviews Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful
Symmetry, a ghost story involving two sets of twins.
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery. In
addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, she is
t...
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Annie Barrows, co-author of The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Pie Society, a novel of love and intrigue on an island in
the English Channel in 1946.
Mary Ann Shaffer became interested in Guernsey while visiting London in 1976.
On a whim, she dec...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
Writer and teacher Elizabeth Benedict talks about "Mentors, Muses and
Monsters: Thirty Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives." She edited
the book, which features essays by Elizabeth Benedict * Robert Boyers * Jay
Cantor * John Casey * Maud Casey * Christopher Caste...
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg interviews local writer Matthew Flaming, author of The
Kingdom of Ohio, a speculative about science in 1900. "The Kingdom of Ohio"
is a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age,
featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P....
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Bill Cameron, author of Chasing
Smoke, a police procedural set in Portland. A cancer-stricken homicide
detective, Skin Kadash, looks into the apparent suicides of several people
who were patients of the same doctor, who happens t...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
Host Laura McCandlish interviews acclaimed memoirist and poet Mary Karr,
author of the bestselling The Liar's Club about her hardscrabble East Texas
childhood and Cherry, her drug-laced, angst-filled coming of age story. With
her characteristic dry wit, Karr now returns wit...
Read more
Host Jim Schumock speaks with John Irving, noted author of such novels as The
World According to Garp, Cider-House Rules, and The Hotel New Hampshire.
His latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, is the story of a father and
son on the run after a tragic accident. The nov...
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg interviews British writer Piers Paul Read, author of The
Death of a Pope, a thriller involving the politics of The Vatican and
liberation theology.
Read is best known for his non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes
Survivors which documented the st...
Read more
Host Ed Goldberg interviews A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Guinea Pig Diaries".
Jacobs investigates his own life by doing stunts and writing about it.
CD-2090
Read more
Subscribe to podcast
