Between The Covers

  Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer, lecturer and author Thomas Hager, discussing his newly published book, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine   Behind every landmark drug is a story. It coul... Read more

Between the Covers brings you a special airing of the show Bookwaves. Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw "Wonder Woman" and a legend in underground comics, discusses her memoir, "Last Girl Standing" and other recent books with host Richard Wolinsky.   Read more

  “This is more than Mitchell S. Jackson’s story, and as he traces his great-grandparents’ exodus from Alabama to Portland and the subsequent lives of his relatives…he captures the cyclical nature of poverty and neglect…The prose is a stunning mix of internal monologue and... Read more

  “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep a... Read more

On this episode of Between the Covers, we'll hear Sarah McColl, author of the new memoir Joy Enough, in conversation with Portland writer Margaret Malone, author of the story collection People Like You. Sarah was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo Food and holds an MFA from ... Read more

  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's memoir, The End of San Francisco (City Lights 2013), won a Lambda Literary Award in transgender nonfiction, and her most recent anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Des... Read more

  How does a body do what it does: make love, mistakes, create life, exist after life; how does a body evolve, celebrate, regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit Geode, a book that I could not stop reading onc... Read more