Between The Covers

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Every third Thursday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

 

 

A weekly show featuring interviews with locally and nationally known authors of both fiction and non-fiction.

Hosted by Avvy Mar

 

 

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Between the Covers on 02/02/12

Airs at: Thu, 02/02/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Environmentalist and best-selling author Frances Moore Lappé is interviewed by Michelle Schroeder Fletcher about her book Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want. Lappé, author of the best-selling Diet for a Small Planet, and co-founder of the Small ... Read more

Between the Covers: Poet Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and poet and founder of the Attic Institute, David Biespiel

Airs at: Fri, 01/27/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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On Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews poet and dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and poet, teacher and founder of the Attic Institute, David Biespiel. Ms. Gutiérrez talks about the process of writing and the difficulty and necessity of the writer trustin... Read more

Lev Grossman on his new book "THE MAGICIAN KING."

Airs at: Thu, 01/26/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with writer Lev Grossman about his new book "The Magician King." Lev Grossman is the author of the bestselling novels "The Magicians" and "Codex: A Novel". A well-known cultural commentator, he is the book critic for TIME magazine and has wri... Read more

Carter Sickels about his novel The Evening Hour

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Carter Sickels about his novel The Evening Hour. In the economically depressed, shifting landscape of Dove Creek, West Virginia, 27-year-old Cole Freeman works as an aide in a nursing home — but deals drugs on the side to make ends meet.... Read more

Between the Covers on 01/05/12

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2012 at 12:00am
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Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, "On Canaan's Side" opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, a... Read more

Between the Covers on 01/12/12

Airs at: Thu, 01/12/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Robyn Shanti speaks with John Jeremiah Sullivan about his book of essays "Pulphead," A New York Times Notable Book for 2011. PULPHEAD presents Sullivan’s profiles of musicians (Axl Rose, Michael Jackson, Bunny Wailer and others) with his essays exploring American cultu... Read more

Between the Covers on 01/05/12

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2012 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Jim Schumock speaks with writer Sebastian Barry about his novel "On Canaan's Side. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, "On Canaan's Side" opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, goin... Read more

Colson Whitehead on his post-apocalyptic novel "Zone One"

Airs at: Thu, 12/29/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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  Host David Naimon speaks with award-winning writer Colson Whitehead about his new novel, "Zone One," which has been described as a "wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel." It is about a world that has been devastated by a plague. There are two types of survivors... Read more

Between the Covers on 12/22/11

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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  Host Jennifer Kemp interviews young Portland writer Olivia Olivia, who reads from her short story "Charlie Without Violins." Read more

Sledgehammer 2011 Between the Covers on 12/15/11

Airs at: Thu, 12/15/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Suzanne LaGrande interviews the winners of this year's Sledgehammer Writing Contest, a competition that combines writing and scavanger hunting. For the contest writers converged at a central location in Portland and received their first writing prompt and scavenger hun... Read more