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excerpts from "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson

Airs at: Mon, 10/21/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/22/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We wait all year to present a special kind of story in October. Tonight Fortunato will read some of the opening chapters to one of the greatest of horror novels, "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson. In a distant future the last of humanity is hold up in a great city wi... Read more

The Overstory

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel ... Read more

Nadene LeCheminant on her book "The Gates of Eden"

Airs at: Thu, 10/17/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Bethany Grabow talks with Nadene LeCheminant, author of the book The Gates of Eden. This historical fiction tells the story of Josephine Bell, a seventeen-year-old girl who leaves the slums of Liverpool for a Mormon settlement in Utah Territory in the 1850s, only to fi... Read more

Grand Union

Airs at: Thu, 11/21/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of l... Read more

Jack Moloney's Century: A Conversation with Per Fagereng

Airs at: Fri, 10/11/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  John Shuck speaks with radio host and author, Per Fagereng, about his novel, Jack Moloney's Century. The novel covers the 100 year life of Jack Moloney (1980-2080) as he moves from Ireland to Portland with many stops along the way through the world's transition from abun... Read more

Don't Skip Out On Me

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews the recent novel by Oregonian Willy Vlautin, Don't Skip Out on Me, a sad story of hope and honor about a boy even nobler than his dreams. Horace Hopper, a.k.a, Hector Hildalgo, is a young man who has decided he must prove himself as the very best at so... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for October 7, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 10/07/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Today on the Old Mole, hosted by Tom Becker: Peace Process Falters in Colombia: Bill Resnick speaks with Alex Diamond about the modern history of Colombia and the recent peace accords. Don't Skip Out On Me: Larry Bowlden reviews the novel by Willy Vlautin. They Live: Joe C... Read more

This Particular Happiness by Jackie Shannon Hollis

Airs at: Thu, 10/03/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
On this episode of Between the Covers, we'll hear Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of the new memoir This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press, in conversation with Liz Scott, author of the memoir This Never Happened. Jackie’s shor... Read more

08 TRIPP-P 19Sep2019

Airs at: Fri, 09/27/2019 at 12:00am - Sun, 10/31/2021 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
In this episode, Hosts Cory & Lesley sit down to discuss the Global Climate Strike Movement inspired by 16 year old Swedish Activist, Greta Thunberg, and the impact that the youth of today are having on addressing climate change - such as with the lawsuit Juliana v. the Un... Read more

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

Airs at: Wed, 09/25/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Rene Denfeld, author of the new novel The Butterfly Girl, from Harper Collins. The Butterfly Girl is Rene’s second novel featuring private investigator Naomi Cottle, aka The Child Finder. The first book is aptly titled The Child Finder, and Rene a... Read more