Between The Covers

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Emma Donoghue, author of the new book The Wonder. This historical fiction follows Florence Nightingale-trained nurse Lib as she travels to rural Ireland in 1859 to determine whether a young girl who has purportedly survived with no food ... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Alexander Maksik about his new novel, SHELTER IN PLACE, a story set on the Oregon Coast in the early 1990s.  Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working class kid from Seattle, has just graduated from college and his future beckons,... Read more

  In Olio Tyehimba Jess presents a musical history of the long fight against slavery, marshaling a vast cast of historical figures including the slaves, some freed, whose music was the basis for the blues and jazz in the 19th century. They ask, "Once burst loose from hu... Read more

  A short time ago Buzz Bernard was in Portland and sat down with Dan Johnson about his latest thriller. Buzz Bernard is a former Oregon resident that has written a novel about the potential 'Big One'; the Tsunami and Earthquake that has long been talked about finally ... Read more

  A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vorte... Read more

  “This is one of those rare books that reads you more than you read it.  It’s a family story, a pet story, a spiritual journey.  It’s almost a novel, except that it’s ‘true.’  It’s kind-hearted, crazy, and moving.  I found myself laughing.  I found myself with tears to... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Andrew Proctor, Executive Director of Literary Arts and Amanda Bullock, Wordstock Festival Director about Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, which will be held at the Portland Art Museum and at venues in the surrounding South Par... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Oregon author Gina Ochsner about her novel THE HIDDEN LETTERS OF VELTA B. a story within a story, set in Latvia. Inara is dying, and during her last few days on earth she shares her grandmother Velta’s letters with her son, Maris, ... Read more