Between The Covers

 Host David Naimon speaks with Junot Diaz, a writer The New Yorker calls one of the top 20 writers for the 21st century. He’s the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a creative writing professor at MIT, the fiction editor at ... Read more

 Here's a quck test; what does Charles Dickens, Dickens Junction, Oregon and murder have to do with each other. The simple answer is quite a bit, but wait, we need to add one more thing to the mix and that is Christopher Lord, the author of THE CHRISTMAS CAROL MURDERS. J... Read more

Host Angelique O'Rourke speaks with writer, journalist, musician and stand-up comedian Josh Gross about his book of short fiction Secrets and Lies, his music, self-publishing and script-writing. Josh Gross is a founding member of the Southern Oregon punk rock band, T... Read more

Host Jim Schumock speaks with Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, The Orchardist tells the story of a reclusive orchardist, who tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Julia Alvarez, author of numerous books including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. In her new memoir, A Wedding in Haiti (Algonquin), she tells the story of a Haitian boy known as Piti. When she first met him in 2001, Pit... Read more

 Is How Should a Person Be? a novel, a memoir, a self-help manual, or a book of philosophy? It is all of these things and more. Host David Naimon talks with Sheila Heti about her new book, "a raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friends, sex, and love in the new millen... Read more

Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with Anna Keesey about her new novel Little Century, which tells the story of  eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers, who, after the death of her mother, heads west in search of her only living relative.  She settles in the lawless town of Century... Read more

Host Jim Schumock speaks with Bejamin Busch about his new memoir Dust to Dust, which is about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch—a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who s... Read more

Host Jim Schumock speaks with writer Ron Rash about his new book The Cove, a tale of the beauty of nature and love—and the darkness of superstition and fear. With The Cove, Rash, the author of Serena, returns to the Appalachian milieu of his previous novels. This is a st... Read more

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment ... Read more