Between The Covers

Host Jennifer Kemp interviews Ali Liebgott about her new novel, "Cha-Ching!" The story revolves around Theo, a scruffy, big-hearted and quick-witted heroine, who has been delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her advent... Read more

Karen Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in The New Yorker’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundation’s five best writers under the age of thirty-f... Read more

In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. A smart, edgy and poignantly funny exploration of the complexities of what parenthood means today, Monica Drake's second novel, Th... Read more

Join Dan Johnson on April 11 @ 11am on Between the Covers when we  meet Portland Icon, Paula Neilsen, aka Sister Paula.Paula has a new book out titled "Trans Evangilist'... the story of her life.Paula will talk about her early life while still known as Larry as well as h... Read more

Peter Rock, novelist and professor at Reed College, discusses his latest book, "The Shelter Cycle," which dramatizes the experience of a small group of children as they and their families prepare for the end of the world in Montana in 1990. It also focuses on the complic... Read more

Pamela Olson who served as foreign press coordinator for Palestinian presidential hopeful Dr Bargouthi in 2004-5, talks about her new book "Fast Times in Palestine-A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland" with local BDS activist and KBOO Programmer Sarah Farahat on a spec... Read more

Host Justin Miller interviews Calvin Trillin, The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for forty years, he has been called "perhaps the fin... Read more

A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called “the novelist of his generation”   Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and... Read more

Barbara Corrado Pope, author of the Bernard Martin Mystery Series, talks about her new novel, "The Missing Italian Girl: A Mystery in Paris," which explores the struggles of working class girls to overcome poverty and the danger of sexual abuse in turn-of the centruy Fra... Read more

Ayana Mathis, author of the best-selling novel "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" about an African-American family in Philadelphia, talks about her work and career with host Richard Wolinsky. Ayana Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a recipient of the M... Read more