Between The Covers

Illustrator Chelsea Stephen and photographer and writer Patrick Dixon talk about the Fisherpoets Anthology. Chelsea Stephen is a freelance illustrator living in Portland. Patrick Dixon is the curator and web designer of IntheTote. He is a member of the organizing committee... Read more

Between the Covers welcomes local author, Dan Berne.  His debut novel, The Gods of Second Chances, is the first novel release from local publisher, Forest Avenue Press. The Gods of Second Chances is the story of a man overwhelmed by things beyond his control--a granddaug... Read more

  "The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. The Handmaid’s Tale crystallized our fears about reproductive control; Fahrenheit 451 still flames discussions of censorship; and 1984 is the lens through which we watch ... Read more

The guest is Harriet Scott Chessman, whose new novel is The Beauty of Ordinary Things, released this winter by Atelier26. Chessman is the author of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper and Someone Not Really Her Mother. The Beauty of Ordinary Things, set in the early 19... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Rabih Alameddine, one of the Middle East's most celebrated voices, about his new novel  "An Unnecessary Woman." Rabih Alameddine follows his bestseller, The Hakawati, with "An Unnecessary Woman," a novel that explores the singular life of... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Doug Erickson, Lewis & Clark College Head of Special Collections and College Archivist and Director of Oregon Poetic Voices, about the life and work of the late Oregon poet William Stafford. 2014 is the Centennial of Stafford's birth, an... Read more

In this Part 2 of Between the Covers we interview a group of people involved in "I Am Not a Poet," a new book of poetry being published by Street Roots, Portland's flagship publication addressing homelessness and poverty since 1998. The guests are Cole Merkel, SR Vendor Coo... Read more

“A memoir for the ages . . . I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Unputdownable in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody’s desperate need for a tribe.”—M... Read more

Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with Mitchell S. Jackson about his novel The Residue Years.  In this autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in Portland in the ’90s under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. The Residue Years switches b... Read more

Mona Golabek, author of "The Children of Willesden Lane," an account of her mother's ordeal during World War II, is also a concert pianist and performer. She discusses her book, and the play created from her book, "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" with host Richard Wolinsky. ... Read more