Between The Covers

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with John Corey Whaley, author of the new book Highly Illogical Behavior. The novel, peppered with Star Trek: The Next Generation references, tells tale of Solomon, a teen with a severe anxiety disorder who hasn’t left the house in over three... Read more

Author of historical-fiction novel A County Road, A Tree, Jo Baker answers questions about its protagonist's, Sam Beckett's, life. Read more

  A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, ... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Grant Bywaters about his debut mystery novel The Red Storm. The Red Storm won the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition, and tells the story of a black heavyweight boxer turned private investigator in 1930’s New Orleans. T... Read more

  In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine.  An intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors.  “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges ... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Laura O. Foster, author of the new book Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary’s Portland. Part walking tour, part history lesson, this guidebook is a unique look at life when author Beverly Cleary was a young girl in the 1920s an... Read more

  “If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Rob Spillman, the award-... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Danielle Dutton about her novel, "Margaret the First," which dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the eccentric 17th-century Duchess. Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopi... Read more