Between The Covers

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland author Peter Rock about his novel, "My Abandonment," which is based on the true story of a father and daughter living in Forest Park. Peter Rock is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland. He has been w... Read more

Sarah Waters talks about her new book, the Little Stranger.  This interview will broadcast in June 2009. Synopsis: In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, th... Read more

Host Jim Schumock speaks with T.C. Boyle, author of 20 books of fiction. His latest is The Women, a novel about the wives and lovers of Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003)... Read more

Host Jim Schumock speaks with T.C. Boyle, author of 20 books of fiction. His latest is The Women, a novel about the wives and lovers of Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003)... Read more

Host Ed Goldberg interviews Geraldine Brooks about her latest book, People of the Book, an imagined history of an ancient Hebrew prayer book. Geraldine Brooks is author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and internationally bestselling novel March, a retelling of Louisa May A... Read more

4/16: Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews best-selling author Meg Wollitzer about her recent novel, The Ten Year Nap. It's about the lives of women who opt out of the professional world to have kids and never go back. Meg Wolitzer's novels include Sleepwalking; This Is Y... Read more

Janet Heller and JoNelle Toriseva talk with host Marianne Barisonek about the WriterCorps  a program, with branches in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York that hires accomplished writers to teach creative writing to youth in juvenile detention facilities, homele... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews best-selling author Meg Wollitzer about her recent novel, The Ten Year Nap.  It's about the lives of women who opt out of the professional world to have kids and never go back. Meg Wollitzer's novels include:  Sleepwalking; This Is Yo... Read more

4/9: Host Ed Goldberg interviews Jayne Anne Phillips, author of "Lark and Termite, a novel of a sad death and a magical child in a West Virginia family. Jayne Anne Phillips was born and raised in West Virginia. Her first book of stories, Black Tickets, published in 1979... Read more