Between The Covers

Host Lisa Loving speaks with writer Alafair Burke about her new suspense novel, "The Ex," in which a  woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated.  Twenty years ago she ruined his life. ... Read more

Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Thousand Acres" discusses her latest work, a trilogy of novels which take an Iowan farming family over the course of a hundred years: "Some Luck," "Early Warning" and "Golden Age," the most recent. She is interviewed by Ri... Read more

"It won't take long-a page, maybe two-before you feel wondrously disquieted by Keith Lee Morris's Travelers Rest. The novel traps its characters in the town of Good Night, Idaho, and the reader in its shaken snow globe of a world. The language dazzles and the circumstanc... Read more

Paul Theroux discusses his latest travel book, "Deep South," about his road trip through the backwoods of the Southern United States. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.  From the series Bookwaves http://bookwaves.homestead.com/ Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Oregon writer Amber J. Keyser about her new novel "The Way Back from Broken," which tells the story of two young people thrown together by shared tragedy who find healing in the Canadian wilderness. It draws on Amber Keyser's own deepl... Read more

We hear an excerpt from an interview with James Grissom, author of "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog," a book based on interviews with the actors and directors who worked with the late playwright. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. An extended 50-min... Read more

From the author of the National Book Award–nominated Veronica: Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet—the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her  "Gaitskill takes a premise that... Read more

In this third book in the Arcadia Wonder Tale Series, Tod Davies takes us through the bittersweet, lush and very human journey of Sophia, The Lizard Princess as she crosses mountains ,oceans  and deserts and the Moon Itself to meet her fate and the fate of her beloved Ar... Read more

Listen to audio of this show Between the Covers shares an interview with author Sandra Cisneros, recorded at KBOO during her recent visit to Portland. We'll offer copies of her new memoir, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (including one signed copy!), to those wh... Read more

Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice facto... Read more