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On Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews painter, arts educator and
author, Ted Katz about The Studio Within, a series of short vignettes that
together make up his artist's journey. Mr. Katz studied at the
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and at the Bost...
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Host Suzanne LaGrande interviews author Maxine Hong Kingston about her
latest book, I Love A Broad Margin to My Life, a free-verse memoir. Ms.
Kingston discusses the influence of Thoreau, her own peace activism and and
writing as a act of healing. Ms. Kingston is also...
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What if the words your children spoke to you actually made you sick?
Physically sick. And what if the children themselves relished in this
newfound power over their parents? This is the setting of Ben Marcus’ new
dystopian novel The Flame Alphabet. Ben Marcus is Chair...
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Host Dan Johnson interviews Oregon writer Patrick deWitt about his new novel
The Sisters Brothers, in which he pays homage to the classic Western,
transforming it into a comic tour de force. The cast of characters includes
losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all st...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with jounalist and author Peggy Orenstein
about her book "Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of
the New Girlie-Girl Culture." In writing this book Orenstein set out to
discover the origins and ramifications of the c...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Northwest writer Jonathan Evison,
author of "West of Here," the award-winning novel that became an instant New
York Times bestseller and the #1 Indie Next Pick in hardcover. West of Here
is set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, o...
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Environmentalist and best-selling author Frances Moore Lappé is interviewed
by Michelle Schroeder Fletcher about her book Ecomind: Changing the Way We
Think, to Create the World We Want. Lappé, author of the best-selling Diet
for a Small Planet, and co-founder of the Sma...
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On Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews poet and dramatist
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and poet, teacher and founder of the Attic
Institute, David Biespiel.
Ms. Gutiérrez talks about the process of writing and the difficulty and
necessity of the writer trus...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with writer Lev Grossman about his new book
"The Magician King."
Lev Grossman is the author of the bestselling novels "The Magicians" and
"Codex: A Novel". A well-known cultural commentator, he is the book critic
for TIME magazine and has ...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Carter Sickels about his novel The
Evening Hour.
In the economically depressed, shifting landscape of Dove Creek, West
Virginia, 27-year-old Cole Freeman works as an aide in a nursing home — but
deals drugs on the side to make ends me...
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