Aaron Durán is a comics writer, novelist, and creator of the long-running
Portland podcast Geek in the City. For his debut graphic novel about a
young indigenous sorceress, he teamed up with Spain-based artist Sara Soler
and letterer Jaime Martinez. Season of the Bruja...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Zero Fare: While other cities, like Kansas City and Olympia, have abolished
fares on public transport, TriMet is poised to approve a substantial fare
hike in the Portland metro ...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Border Patrol: Nearly every year since the 1990s the U.S. Congress has
increased the appropriation for the Border Patrol and the whole apparatus of
border protection. Yet every ...
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Book Mole Frann Michel reviews The Corner That Held Them, published in 1948,
the sixth novel by British queer communist musicologist and writer Sylvia
Townsend Warner (1893–1978). Set mostly in a 14th-century Benedictine
convent between the Black Death of 1349 and the Peasa...
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Norm Diamond hosts the Moles’ tribute to MLK Day, which includes the
following segments:
Critical Race Theory: Bill Resnick talks to Malik Miah who made a living as
an aviation mechanic and spent most of his life fighting racism in the
unions. He has written several boo...
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On a day celebrating Martin Luther King, writer and photographer Matt Witt
reviews a memoir by another African American from Georgia who also had a day
named after him. The memoir is called Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred
Rembert. Growing up in rural Georgia, Rembert near...
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After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train,
which crashes on the way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is
misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in
the accident. The Harkness Family, having never ...
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Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want, graces Between the Covers with an
interview on her new novel Flight, a poignant inquiry on social class, love,
and family.
Lily King calls Flight "arresting and powerful".
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Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation
industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame
with pencil and paper. Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Today’s episode is a sad one for me. It’s the last interview with one of
my favorite authors and guests – Cai Emmons.
I first met Cai in October 2018 when she came to the KBOO studios for a live,
in-person interview on her novel Weather Woman. Due to the pandemic, our
subs...
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