Between The Covers

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Every third Thursday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

 

 

A weekly show featuring interviews with locally and nationally known authors of both fiction and non-fiction.

Hosted by Avvy Mar

 

 

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Lauren Groff on her new novel "Fates and Furies"

Airs at: Thu, 10/15/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Dave Mazza interviews Lauren Groff, award-winning author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, about her new book, Fates and Furies, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is an examination of a marriage and a portra... Read more

Elizabeth Gilbert, BIG MAGIC: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Airs at: Thu, 10/08/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Between the Covers welcomes international bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, to discuss her new book, BIG MAGIC:  Creative Living Beyond Fear. Elizabeth Gilbert is a versatile and creatively boundless author of works of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, a cookbook, and... Read more

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. Among her honors are a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards,... Read more

Baby's On Fire by Liz Prato

Airs at: Thu, 09/24/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host David Naimon talks with Portland writer, teacher and editor, Liz Prato, about her debut collection of stories Baby's On Fire.  Writer Steve Almond describes the collection well:  "Liz Prato's stories are filled with the lost, the lonely, and the damned, and she makes a... Read more

The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann

Airs at: Thu, 09/17/2015 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of 10 novels, 4 collections of short fiction, a memoir, 6 works of non-fiction (including the 7-volume treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down), and numerous articles. His latest work is The Dying Grass: A Novel ... Read more

Patsy Kullberg on her Novel, "Girl in the River"

Airs at: Thu, 09/10/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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We speak with local writer Patsy Kullberg about her new novel, Girl in the River, a portrait of the intimate lives of women during one of the most corrupt periods in Portland history. It’s the middle of the twentieth century and Portland has fallen into the hands of gangste... Read more

David Mitchell on his novel "The Bone Clocks"

Airs at: Thu, 09/03/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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David Mitchell, author of "Cloud Atlas," discusses his latest novel, "The Bone Clocks," now out in trade paperback, which deals with social and political issues in the present and future, with host Richard Wolinsky. (From the series Bookwaves) Read more

Parnaz Foroutan on her debut novel "The Girl from the Garden"

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Sarika Mehta speaks with Parnaz Foroutan, author of the debut novel THE GIRL FROM THE GARDEN, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a 2015 selection for the prestigious Indies Introduce Debut Authors program, Foroutan brings to li... Read more

A Long High Whistle by David Biespiel

Airs at: Thu, 08/20/2015 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Over the course of ten years, poet and critic David Biespiel published an essay on poetry every month in the Oregonian in what became the longest-running newspaper column on poetry in the United States. Collected for the first time, these enormously popular essays, many of ... Read more

Portland Author Ellen Urbani launches Hurricane Katrina-inspired novel, Landfall.

Airs at: Thu, 08/13/2015 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Between the Covers welcomes local author Ellen Urbani on the launch of her debut novel, Landfall, published by Portland-based national publisher Forest Avenue Press. At the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Landfall reminds us of all the unfathomable things that occ... Read more