Between The Covers

  Rae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This gene... Read more

     Novelist, author and Exterminating Angel Press publisher Tod Davies returns to the Jam Today series in an update of her original cult classic cookbook memoir. Tod's attitude toward literature is the same as her attitude toward cooking - it's all about working with w... Read more

  Elizabeth Fournier is the inspirational author of The Green Reaper - Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician. Her compassion for those who pass over and for their families is a true testament of who she is in this world: pure love. She is also following her heart by supporting fa... Read more

  “What is a dog if not god? In Afterglow, Eileen Myles steps up to the challenge for writers to function as prophets. Ghostwritten in part by deceased pit bull Rosie, this ‘dog memoir’ explores—among other things—geometry, gender, mortality, evil, aging, and plaids. My... Read more

  Dan Johnson speaks to author Craig Johnson about his latest work, The Western Strar... Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of t... Read more

  In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardso... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with William Ritter, author of the new book The Dire King, the final book in the Jackaby series. It is the story of Jackaby, a detective of the supernatural, and his mortal yet clever assistant Abigail Rook as they battle evil forces threaten... Read more

"In stunningly elegant couplets, Neil Aitken transposes the dreams of machines and humans into musical, sonically deft lyrics that sing songs of ccreation, vision, possibility, futurity. These beautifully crafted poems -- evoking the designs of nineteenth-century mathema... Read more

  Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter Rock staved off the job’s inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few years ago, reminded of the pleasures and pl... Read more