Between the Covers

On today's episode, we speak with Omar El Akkad about his novel What Strange Paradise, recently released in paperback. Called “an instant classic” by the New York Times, What Strange Paradise is the searing story about one boy’s perilous journey toward safety in a desperate... Read more

Fans of beloved writer, Dear Sugar columnist, and writing teacher Steve Almond rejoice as we talk to the author about his first novel All the Secrets of the World. Sara Lippman of the Chicago Review of Books says: "All the Secrets of the World is a masterful, nervy, comple... Read more

On today's episode, our guest is Julia Glass, author of the new novel Vigil Harbor from Pantheon. Vigil Harbor is a rich, complex delve into the lives of one community in the near future wrestling with climate disaster, pandemics, domestic terrorism, and family dissolution... Read more

On today's episode, our guest is Sara A. Mueller, author of the new novel The Bone Orchard from Tor Books. The Bone Orchard is speculative fiction about a world of politics and murder in a meticulously created world of intrigue and brutality. According to Buzzfeed magazine... Read more

On today's episode, our guest is Rebecca Brown, author of the new cycle of essays You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe from Chatwin Books. In the new book, Brown explores life's biggest questions: time, memory, love, and how we endure. Brown is the author of ten books ... Read more

On today's episode, our guest is Willy Vlautin, Portland-based novelist and founding member of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. We talk about hope, gentrification, trauma, and how songs become novels, as with his latest book -- The Night Always Comes.  In the words of Ri... Read more

How do brief encounters with strangers change us?   In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Suzanne LaGrande  speak with essayist, teacher, and editor Colleen Kinder who has just published Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us.   In the interview, Ms. Kinde... Read more

Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy." -- Martin Luther King On today's episode, we welcome Marc Bookman, author of the new book A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays from T... Read more