Between The Covers

  “The contemporary Latin American detective novel is a form that uses the individual’s rollicking quest as a means of resistance against repressive structures and the violences they engender. Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Taiga Syndrome, in this stellar translation by Suzan... Read more

Host Suzanne LeGrande interviews Amy Stanton and Catherine Connors, authors of The Feminine Revolution. Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs and poems MYKU: My Portland. “MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s MYKU’s with photographs from her... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Skenazy, author of the new novel Temper CA, from Miami University Press. Paul’s essays, stories, and book reviews have appeared in a range of newspapers and magazines, and he’s published critical work on noir writers such as Dashiell Hammett,... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Liz Scott, author of the new memoir This Never Happened, from University of Hell Press. Liz is a practicing psychologist in Portland, and a practicing writer. Her work has appeared in The MacGuffin, New Stone Circle, and Lake Effect, among other j... Read more

  From “Speak Truth to Power,” about the condition of not being believed about rape and assault; to “Goliath,” about the ways evil is used as a form of social control; to “The Fallout,” about ecological and generational violence, Lacy M. Johnson creates masterful, elabora... Read more

  Today on Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews artist, writer and author Austin Kleon discussing his latest book Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Time... Read more

  Pulitzer prize and National Book Award-finalist Christine Schutt talks with David Naimon about her latest story collection Pure Hollywood. “Nobody writes like Schutt . . . and her latest collection is the perfect entry point for readers new to her work . . . In each of t... Read more

  Today on Between The Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews Caroline Criado Perez, writer,  broadcaster, feminist activist and author of Invisible Women: Gender Bias in a World Designed for Men. Recently published, Invisible Women explores how data helps perpetuate gen... Read more