Between The Covers

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 ... Read more

  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 ac... Read more

Host Suzanne LaGrande speaks with Maxine Hong Kingston about her memoir "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life." just out in paperback. "Kingston is a gentle advocate for justice and peace, an innovative creator of unconventional, mythic, and captivating tales. The very struc... Read more

Jim Schumock hosts a "Best Books Special," featuring reviews of some of the best fiction and nonfiction books of the last year with guests Will Peters of Anni Bloom's Books and Sally McPherson of Broadway Books. There will be many literary thank you gifts for listeners w... Read more

Host Crystal Leighty speaks with Kevin Fox about his first novel, Until the Next Time, which tells the story of Sean Corrigan, who is given a journal left him by his father’s brother Michael—a man he had not known existed. The journal draws Sean into a hunt for the trut... Read more

Dan Johnson interview Chana Wilson, author of "Riding Fury Home"  inspiring memoir of suicide, despair, and redemption. When Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide with a rifle and was sent to a mental hospital; when she returned, Wilson became her solo caretaker... Read more

Thrity Umrigar, author of the novel "The World We Found" about the friendship between four Indian women and their past and present, talks about her work and her career with host Bookwaves host Richard Wolinsky. Thrity Umrigar is the author of three other novels—The Space... Read more

On Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews author and painter Ted Katz about his book, The Studio Within. Katz was born in Philadelphia, PA. While a fellow of Harvard, Katz studied at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and at the Boston Museum School of ... Read more

Host David Naimon talks with writer,  Nathan Englander,  about his new short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.   Englander burst on the literary scene in 1999 with For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, a story collection that earned him the ... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Oregon writer Cheryl Strayed about her new memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Her other books are Torch, a novel and Tiny Beautiful Things, a selection of her "Dear Sugar" columns from TheRumpus.net (forthco... Read more