Between The Covers

Host Jim Schumock speaks with John Irving, noted author of such novels as The World According to Garp, Cider-House Rules, and The Hotel New Hampshire. His latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, is the story of a father and son on the run after a tragic accident. The ... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews British writer Piers Paul Read, author of The Death of a Pope, a thriller involving the politics of The Vatican and liberation theology.  Read is best known for his non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which documented the... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Guinea Pig Diaries". Jacobs investigates his own life by doing stunts and writing about it. CD-2090 Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through THose Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the Afterlife and Everything in Between." Read more

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Robert Masin, author of "Swede," a memoir of his father and his family life in New Jersey, post World War II. Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with former Portlander Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University, about her new book, "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits," a biography of the great photographer and a cultural history of America from San Francisco's Bohem... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews Selden Edwards, author of "The Little Book," a time-travel fantasy in Vienna, 1897. Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews Selden Edwards, author of The Little Book, a time-travel fantasy set in Vienna, 1897.  Edwards began writing The Little Book  as a young English teacher in 1974, and continued to layer and refine the manuscript until its completion in 2007. It... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews Portland writer and journalist Chelsea Cain, author of Evil at Heart, the third in a series of thrillers about a female serial killer. Read more