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On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family
awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the
earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer,
gravity is affected, the environment ...
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A war has either started or is about to. Bombs are going off in the city. But
people seem strangely disengaged. Della's activist friends seem more
concerned about the next sex party or the finer points of vegan ideology, and
customers at the vegan café where she works, t...
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Erin Yanke interviews Mark Baumgarten, author of the book Love Rock
Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music. Mark will be reading
in Portland July 12th, 7:30pm, at Powells Books on Burnside. The reading and
book signing will be followed by a K Records tri...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Portland author Anne Mendel, who
discusses her debut novel, Etiquette for an Apocalypse.
It’s the 2020 Apocalypse and Sophie Cohen, former social worker turned
neighborly drug dealer, must keep her family alive amid those pesky end of ...
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Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with writer BK Loren about her new novel "Theft,"
whose main character Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce
the Mexican wolf, North America’s most endangered mammal, to the American
Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit...
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Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions, published by McSweeney’s in
2010, arrived with a lot of buzz. An inventive, experimental book of over one
thousand pages, its protagonist was Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee, a 10 year old
genius from Chicago, who may or may not be t...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Ann Packer about her story collection
Swim Back to Me, now out in paperback.
Ann Packer says, "The book is made up of a novella and five short stories;
the phrase 'Swim Back to Me' is the title of a song mentioned in one of the
stor...
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Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with local author Ruth Tenzer Feldman about her
book "Blue Thread."
It's 1912. Sixteen-year-old Miriam Josefsohn is groomed for the life of a
socialite, but dreams of working in the family print shop. When her father
refuses to train her as his ...
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Host David Naimon talks with Portland author, Jon Raymond, about his new
novel Rain Dragon.
Raymond is the author of the novel Half-life, and the short story collection,
Livability, which won the Oregon Book Award and contained two stories that
became the critically accl...
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