Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of 10 novels, 4
collections of short fiction, a memoir, 6 works of non-fiction (including the
7-volume treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down), and numerous
articles. His latest work is The Dying Grass: A Nov...
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We speak with local writer Patsy Kullberg about her new novel, Girl in the
River, a portrait of the intimate lives of women during one of the most
corrupt periods in Portland history. It’s the middle of the twentieth
century and Portland has fallen into the hands of gang...
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David Mitchell, author of "Cloud Atlas," discusses his latest novel, "The
Bone Clocks," now out in trade paperback, which deals with social and
political issues in the present and future, with host Richard Wolinsky. (From
the series Bookwaves)
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Host Sarika Mehta speaks with Parnaz Foroutan, author of the debut novel THE
GIRL FROM THE GARDEN, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First
Novel Prize and named a 2015 selection for the prestigious Indies Introduce
Debut Authors program,
Foroutan brings to...
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Over the course of ten years, poet and critic David Biespiel published an
essay on poetry every month in the Oregonian in what became the
longest-running newspaper column on poetry in the United States. Collected
for the first time, these enormously popular essays, many ...
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Between the Covers welcomes local author Ellen Urbani on the launch of her
debut novel, Landfall, published by Portland-based national publisher Forest
Avenue Press.
At the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Landfall reminds us of all
the unfathomable things that ...
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The award-winning writer, Rebecca Makkai, whose stories have appeared in four
consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, appears on Between
The Covers to discuss her much-anticipated story collection bearing her
signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart...
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Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir offering fresh,
fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and
possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of
the author's relationship with the fluidly-gen...
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The guest is Jeff Koehler, author of "Darjeeling," the story of how
Darjeeling tea began, jump-started the largest tea industry on the globe
under imperial British rule, and came to produce the highest-quality tea
leaves anywhere in the world – beloved by millions. It is...
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In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a
heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery
explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and
prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a...
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