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Portland native Mitchell S. Jackson reads from his new book Oversoul: Stories and Essays, a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories and essays. Jackson is now a professor at NYU, but his book explores growing up black in Portland. Later he speaks about his life and work with KBOO's Paul Roland. Jackson’s work examines the conflicts that arise in those who have seen their dreams beaten back, who realize the smallest of victories, and who still believe in redemption. (Produced by Jennifer Kemp)

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Between the Covers on 12/20/12

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Thu, 12/20/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Sandra Cisneros on her new novel "Have You Seen Marie?"

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Host Sarika Mehta speaks with novelist, short story writer and poet Sandra Cisneros, who is most well-known for her award-winning collection of vignettes, The House on Mango Street. She recently published another short novel, Have You Seen Marie?, which explores coping with the death of a loved one, real-life characters from her community in San Antonio and how we manage grief. She stopped by KBOO back in October and spoke with Sarika Mehta about her latest book, moving from San Antonio and her experiences of being a pioneer Latina writer.

Between the Covers on 12/13/12

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Thu, 12/13/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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The book is titled "The Collection" and the writer's are all Trans Men and Women

Dan Johnson invites you to join him on Between the Covers, December 13 at 11am as he introduces you to Tom Leger, Co-Founder of Topside Press. Tom, a Transgendered man, will talk about the first book that Topside launched in October of this year.

The title of the book is The Collection an asseblage of short stories written by a cast of over 20 Transgendered writers and two of those writers are from the Pacific Northwest.

You will meet Carter Sickles, a returning guest to Between the Covers and Casey Plett from Eugene.

Please join us on Thursday, December 13 at 11am on Between the Covers.

Between the Covers on 12/06/12

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Thu, 12/06/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Meet a few friends from Write Around Portland and marvel at the great things they do in Portland

Come join me on Between the Covers, Thursday, December 6th at 11am when I introduce you to my friends from Write Around Portland, a non-profit organization serving the underserved in the Portland area for a long time. Write Around Portland takes on the task of going into the youth authority, healthcare facilities, shelters, prisons, low income housing and many other places to facilitate sessions where these once quiet voices get to write, and write and write.

Between the Covers on 11/29/12

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Thu, 11/29/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Chris Kraus on her new novel "Summer of Hate"

Writer, filmmaker and art critic, Chris Kraus, talks with host David Naimon about her latest book, Summer of Hate. "Chris Kraus cuts a new and insatiably clever line in this explosive new work, breaking down big themes like art writing, romance, and capitalism, within a wildly expansive take on the thriller."--Janine Armin, Joyland.

Between the Covers on 11/15/12

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Thu, 11/15/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Alexis Smith on her novel "Glaciers"

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Portland author, Alexis Smith, talks with host David Naimon about Glaciers, her debut novel from Tin House books. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska. Glaciers was a Publishers Weekly pick of the week, received its coveted starred review, and was selected by Indie Booksellers for the January 2012 Indie Next List.

Between the Covers on 11/08/12

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Thu, 11/08/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Michelle Tea and Nicole J. Georges on Sister Spit

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Host Lisa Loving interviews Michelle Tea, editor of Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road.

Between the Covers on 11/01/12

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Thu, 11/01/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Portland writer Kevin Desinger on "The Descent of Man"

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Host Jennifer Kemp interviews Portland writer Kevin Desinger about his first novel The Descent of Man.

The main character of Kevin Desinger's novel is an average guy who experiences a sequence of events that lead to a firestorm consuming his house and family. Readers of this book are prompted to ponder the question of how they would respond were their own normal lives to take such unexpected turns.

Kevin Desinger graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before moving to Portland where he wrote for the Willamette Week, the Oregonian and a number of regional publications. An earlier short story appeared in The Missouri Review.

Between the Covers on 10/25/12

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Thu, 10/25/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Jess Walter on his new novel, "Beautiful Ruins"

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Host David Naimon talks with Jess Walter about his sixth novel, Beautiful Ruins, a deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives.

"...a blockbuster, with romance, majesty, comedy, smarts, and a cast of thousands. There’s lights, there’s camera, there’s action. If you want anything more from a novel than Jess Walter gives you in Beautiful Ruins, you’re getting thrown out of the theater.” (Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up and creator of Lemony Snicket )

“A novel with pathos, piercing wit and, most important, the generous soul of a literary classic. . . . Walter has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors.” (Boston Globe )

Between the Covers on 10/18/12

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Thu, 10/18/2012 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

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Tim Egan on The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

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Host Gene Bradley speaks with Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author (and Pacific Northwest resident) Tim Egan. His new book SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis was selected as one of Publishers Weekly’s “Top 10 History Titles” for the fall.

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Thomas H Greco, Jr.: "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization"

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Thu, 10/29/2009

Stephanie Potter interviews community economist Thomas H. Greco, Jr. about his most recent book The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. Greco will also speak in Portland, Monday, Nov 2 at 7 pm at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th. (Co-Sponsored by the Community Exchange Network of Portland and Bright Neighbor.) Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: “Maybe you've noticed a slight bit of turmoil in our national and global financial system? This book cuts to the very core of the trouble--and points toward several pathways toward that might allow us to slowly climb out of the pit into which we've stumbled.” An authority on the subject of monetary systems, Greco is one of the world’s leading experts in describing alternative or complementary currencies, self-regulating systems that facilitate “reciprocal exchange” without the use of government legal tender. His website is http://www.reinventingmoney.com/

Title: Thomas H Greco, Jr.: "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization"
Producer: Stephanie Potter
Length: 27:38 minutes (12.65 MB)
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Melissa Hart: "Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood"

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Thu, 10/22/2009

Host Crystal Leighty speaks with author Melissa Hart about her new memoir, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood. “You can’t grow up parented by two women. It’s unnatural.” This is the rationale that allows Melissa Hart’s father to take custody of his three young children. Hart tells the story of enforced separation from her mother and the comfort she takes in Latino culture as she attempts to establish her identity in two increasingly divergent worlds."Gringa is a tender and smart memoir that brings vivid context to the coming-of-age journey after a parent comes out of the closet."--Abigail Garner, author of Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is

Title: Melissa Hart: "Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood"
Producer: Crystal Leighty
Length: 26:23 minutes (12.08 MB)
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Lyn Moelich interviews Tod Davies

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Food

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Thu, 09/10/2009

Lyn Moelich interviews screenwriter, producer, teacher and obcessive cook Tod Davies about her new book Jam Today (a dairy of cooking with what you've got).

Title: Lyn Moelich interviews Tod Davies
Date: September 10
Genre: Public Affairs
Year: 2009
Producer: Lyn Moelich
Length: 27:21 minutes (25.04 MB)
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Heather Sharfeddin, Author of Windless Summer, a novel of a small town in the Columbia Gorge

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Thu, 09/03/2009

Ed Goldberg interviews Heather Sharfeddin, author of Windless Summer, a novel of a small town in the Columbia Gorge with a motel that might be a karma center. Publisher's Weekly: "Tom Jemmet is the widower owner of the rundown Jemmet Motel, and his relationship with his autistic 12-year-old daughter, Sienna, takes center stage in a plot packed with secrets." The back drop to the story is that the town is dying, businesses are closing and the people are moving away.

Title: Heather Sharfedin, Author of Windless Summer, a novel of a small town in the Columbia Gorge
Producer: Ed Goldberg
Length: 28:09 minutes (19.33 MB)
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Robert Olmstead on His Life as a Writer

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Thu, 08/27/2009

Jim Schumach talks with Robert Olmstead about his life and writing, including Stay Here with Me, a Memoir. Olmstead's most recent book is Far Bright Star, and is the author of six previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, was a #1 Book Sense Pick, and was a Borders Original Voices pick. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA grant, and he is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University. Kirkus Reviews on Far Bright Star: "Another meditative, beautifully written novel from Olmstead . . . Olmstead is wondrously attuned to the natural world and the realities of war; he uses sand, heat and distant mountains as a stage set, and his narrative unfolds with all the formal rigor of a Greek tragedy . . . Brutal, tender and magnificent.”

Title: Robert Olmstead on His Life as a Write
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Length: 22:40 minutes (15.57 MB)
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David Mas Masumoto: "Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Harvesting Legacies from the Land"

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Wed, 08/19/2009

Crystal Leighty talks with David Mas Masumoto author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Harvesting Legacies from the Land. Publisher notes: "Hailed by The New York Times as “A poet of farming” and the Los Angeles Times as the “Rockstar Farmer” who “uses his farm as Thoreau did his Walden Pond,” David Mas Masumoto weaves together stories of family and farming, life and death to reveal age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing—and urgently needed."

Title: David Mas Masumoto: "Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Harvesting Legacies from the Land"
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Length: 27:15 minutes (12.48 MB)
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Jerome Gold

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Prison issues

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Wed, 08/05/2009

Jennifer Kemp interviews Jerome Gold, author of "Paranoia and Heartbreak, Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility".

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Length: 26:52 minutes (24.6 MB)
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Novelist Hallie Ephron discusses her book: "Never Tell a Lie"

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Thu, 07/02/2009

On Between the Covers which aired July 2, 2009, Host Ed Goldberg interviewed Hallie Ephron, author of Never Tell a Lie, a novel about a suburban woman who is accused of murdering a high school acquaintance.

Title: Novelist Hallie Ephron discusses her book: "Never Tell a Lie"
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Length: 27:22 minutes (12.53 MB)
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Reif Larsen

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Wed, 07/01/2009

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews novelist Reif Larsen, author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, the illustrated story of a 12 year old boy whose devotion to the art of making maps is a way of communicating with the complex and often frightening world around him.

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"The Little Stranger"

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Wed, 06/24/2009

Eva Lake interviews Sara Waters, the author of "The Little Stranger".

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Length: 22:54 minutes (7.87 MB)
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Timber Beasts

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 5:26pm.

I've read the book twice and rather hoped to hear the program that the author spoke on the book. But that page was not available on your site. Anyway, I loved the book. I thought it was an exciting dose of history. Stoner brought the Portland of 1900 to life. There was intrigue that kept my interest throughout the book.