Between The Covers

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker discusses his latest book, "The Sense of Style," a style manual for the 21st Century, along with his other books, including "The Better Angels of Our Nature." Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.  From the series Bookwaves. An extended 45-minute ve... Read more

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize  and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014. Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to ac... Read more

Host Sarika Mehta speaks with Nayomi Munaweera about her novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors. Munaweera was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At the age of three she immigrated with her family to Nigeria. In 1984, a military coup necessitated a third migration and the family settl... Read more

Host Lisa Loving speaks with beloved Portland author Molly Gloss about her new book FALLING FROM HORSES. Molly Gloss is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hearts of Horses and The Jump-Off Creek. In FALLING FROM HORSES, Molly introduces the best male narrator sin... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the recently published YA graphic novel In Real Life and the nonfiction book Information Doesn't Want to Be F... Read more

Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but ... Read more

Roberto Trotta, a theoretical cosmologist and lecturer in astrophysics at Imperial College, London, is the author of the new book, "The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All There Is".   KBOO will give away a copy of the book during this broadcast! Roberta ... Read more

National Book Award winner Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, "Orfeo," now out in trade paper, about modern music and the horrors of the national security state with host Richard Wolinskyl   This program is from Bookwaves. An extended version of this interview can b... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with journalist and author Alix Christie about her new novel GUTENBERG’S APPRENTICE.  Alix tells the story of Gutenberg, his apprentice, and his team of typesetters as they worked on the first mass produced book, the Gutenberg Bible.  Alix C... Read more