Between The Covers

 Host Sarika Mehta interviews acclaimed author Junot Diaz about his background including his views of the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and his family relationships.  Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the cr... Read more

Portland native Mitchell S. Jackson reads from his new book Oversoul: Stories and Essays, a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories and essays. Jackson is now a professor at NYU, but his book explores growing up black in Portland. Later he speaks about his life an... Read more

Host Sarika Mehta speaks with novelist, short story writer and poet Sandra Cisneros, who is most well-known for her award-winning collection of vignettes, The House on Mango Street. She recently published another short novel, Have You Seen Marie?, which explores coping with... Read more

Dan Johnson invites you to join him on Between the Covers, December 13 at 11am as he introduces you to Tom Leger, Co-Founder of Topside Press. Tom, a Transgendered man, will talk about the first book that Topside launched in October of this year. The title of the book is Th... Read more

Come join me on Between the Covers, Thursday, December 6th at 11am when I introduce you to my friends from Write Around Portland, a non-profit organization serving the underserved in the Portland area for a long time. Write Around Portland takes on the task of going into th... Read more

Writer, filmmaker and art critic, Chris Kraus, talks with host David Naimon about her latest book, Summer of Hate. "Chris Kraus cuts a new and insatiably clever line in this explosive new work, breaking down big themes like art writing, romance, and capitalism, within a wil... Read more

Portland author, Alexis Smith,  talks with host David Naimon about Glaciers, her debut novel from Tin House books. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fix... Read more

Host Lisa Loving interviews Michelle Tea, editor of Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road. Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, a novel, a book of poetry and the young adult fantasy tale A Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. She has edited anthologies abou... Read more

Unedited and uninterrupted version of host Kathleen Stephenson speaking with Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist, author and fierce advocate for freedom of speech. Terry Tempest Williams shows us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters o... Read more

Host Jennifer Kemp interviews Portland writer Kevin Desinger about his first novel The Descent of Man. The main character of Kevin Desinger's novel is an average guy who experiences a sequence of events that lead to a firestorm consuming his house and family. Readers of thi... Read more