Between The Covers

Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy." -- Martin Luther King On today's episode, we welcome Marc Bookman, author of the new book A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays from T... Read more

Cate Kennedy, award-winning short story writer, poet, and novelist stops by to discuss the drive for stories, the mechanics of what makes them shine, and why we need them.  Author of the story collections Dark Roots and Like A House on Fire as well as the novel The World Be... Read more

This week on Between the Covers, we talk to the poet Julia Levine  about her new collection Ordinary Psalms.  Her fourth collection explores the sacred found in the earthly themes of mortality, the degradation of the sacred natural world, cruelty and the power of love to ho... Read more

Suzanne LaGrande speaks with author Trisha Thomas about her latest book, What Passes as Love.   Set in antebellum Virginia,  What Passes as Love tells the story of Dahlia Holt, a light-skinned black woman who works as a servant in the home of a large slave owner who is in... Read more

“Horses, in their capacity to heal, become a mirror of our   inner life. This is where and how the work begins. The horse   that chooses us reflects our deepest self to us.”   While in Costa Rica for a month to work on writing a book Rosalyn Berne decided to go to take ... Read more

 Suzanne LaGrande speaks with Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, authors of Forces of Nature: The Women: The Women Who Changed Science.   In this interview, Anna and Leila discuss:   The reasons why so few women scientists  have been included in the history of science Some o... Read more