Between The Covers

  "Conjuring a lush and mysterious landscape, Marrow Island investigates the impact of the losses of the past--be they loved ones, failed quests, or the environmental calamities brought on by our collective blindness. By turns elegiac, compelling, and timely, it seeks r... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Hope Jahren about Lab Girl, her debut memoir of a woman in science. It is also a portrait of a longtime friendship and a fresh look at plants and the natural world   Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in wh... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Jessi Klein, author of the memoir You’ll Grow Out of It that People Magazine calls “Astute, hilarious essays about the perilous path to womanhood [that] will have you wincing in recognition.” Tune in to learn Klein’s thoughts about fema... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Zora O'Neill, author of the new book All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World. In the book, Zora visits four Middle Eastern countries over the course of a year. She spends several weeks in each place, studying the Arabic lan... Read more

  How to Set a Fire and Why, Jesse Ball’s singular, blistering new novel, tells the story of a teenage girl who has lost everything—and will burn anything.  Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her ... Read more

  Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews writer Robert Hill about his new novel, "The Remnants." The novel is set in the town of New Eden, which is peopled with hereditary oddities and is now in its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birth... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with John Corey Whaley, author of the new book Highly Illogical Behavior. The novel, peppered with Star Trek: The Next Generation references, tells tale of Solomon, a teen with a severe anxiety disorder who hasn’t left the house in over three... Read more

Author of historical-fiction novel A County Road, A Tree, Jo Baker answers questions about its protagonist's, Sam Beckett's, life. Read more

  A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, ... Read more