Between The Covers

Web extra: Carrie Galbraith (co-editor, along with John Law and Kevin Evans, of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society) recounts the early days of the Cacophony Zone Trips, before the notorious Zone Trip Four inpired the founding of the Burning Man Arts Fesival.Cli... Read more

Culture-jammers extraordinaire John Law and Carrie Galbraith join host S.W. Conser for a special hour-long edition of Between the Covers.Some twenty-odd years ago, John and Carrie (inadvertently) helped found the Burning Man Arts Festival and the Billboard Liberation Fro... Read more

From the series Bookwaves Alexander Maksik talks about his latest novel, "A Marker to Measure Drift" about a Liberian refugee in Greece. He also discusses his career with host Richard Wolinsky. A 35-minute extended edit of this program can be found at www.bookwaves.com  Read more

Coming up on KBOO this Thursday at 11 am learn about a soon to be released book titled “Starship Century”  Book your passage now on this exciting blast through space with fellow travelers like Steven Hawking, Freeman Dyson and local writer and educator, Richard ‘Rick’ Lo... Read more

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For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if s... Read more

George Packer discusses his latest book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," a broadbased look at how America has changed in the past thirty-five years. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky of the series Bookwaves.George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorke... Read more

Host Ren Green interviews actress and author Julia Sweeney, better known from Saturday Night Live and her one-woman show God Said "Ha!" Sweeney talks about adoptive motherhood, minivans, and her new book If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother, written during a much-need... Read more

Host Gene Bradley speaks with Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series. Johnson’s series is the basis for Longmire, the hit A&E-TV original drama. They discuss Johnson's latest novel in the Longmire series, A SERPENT’S TOOT... Read more

Matt Bell's novel is so unlike anything else you'll read this year that people are struggling to describe just what it is.  The Washington Post says it's like a magical realist story chanted by druids on mushrooms, The Stranger says it feels like a Tolkein epic set insid... Read more