Between The Covers

Host David Naimon interviews Portland writer Scott Sparling about his debut novel, Wire to Wire, from Tin House Books. A pick of the week by Publisher's Weekly, they call Wire to Wire "well crafted and thrilling, tying together an obvious love for both Michigan and railroa... Read more

Bruce Silverman interviews short story writer Daniel Orozco and he reads from his new collection "Orientation". Orozco also talks about how he writes--creating characters, wrting from one's own experience versus from someone else's perspective, and other tricks of the trade... Read more

In part two of today's Between the Covers host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Trevor Richardson about his debut novel "American Bastards," a surreal novel of self-discovery and hipster culture. In this novel a number of dead rock stars try to save the world, a ... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Portland writer, television host and robotics engineer Daniel Wilson, author of the technothriller "Robopocalypse," which explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. Wilson has an M.S. and P.H.D. in Robotics, and an ... Read more

Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of a defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T... Read more

Host Robyn Shanti interviews Steve Earle, musician, actor, and writer about his first novel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, named after a Hank Williams song. The novel is set in San Antonio in 1963, and tells the story of the defrocked doctor and morphine addict. T... Read more