Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Portland writer Polly Dugan about her
new novel, The Sweetheart Deal, It's the story of what happens when a
woman who thinks she's lost everything has the chance to love again.
Polly Dugan s a reader at Tin House magazine. A former ...
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Host Ken Jones talks with author James Anderson, a native of the Pacific
Northwest, born in Seattle, raised in Portland, and a graduate of Reed
College. He founded Breitenbush Books, a small publishing company based in
Portland, and ran it from 1976 to 1991. In addition ...
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Host Lisa Loving speaks with Stacy Wakefield about her novel, "The Sunshine
Crust Baking Factory."
Sid arrives in New York City in 1995 eager to join the anarchist squatting
scene. She's got a tattoo, she listens to the right bands . . . so why would
she get a job and r...
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When Portland State University and Tin House brought Mary Ruefle to Portland
for a reading and lecture, David Naimon sat down with the beloved and
criticallly-acclaimed poet and essayist to talk about her approach to art,
the questions she comes back to, and the artists ...
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Host Lisa Loving speaks with Cole Cohen about her new book, "Head Case: My
Brain and Other Wonders", a memoir about her struggle to make her way and set
up a life after doctors discovered a hole in her brain the size of a lemon.
For as long as she can remember, Cole Cohen...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and
Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction
epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand
years. A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking tim...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with the founder of the Between the Covers
program, Sharon Wood Wortman, about The Big & Awesome Bridges of Portland &
Vancouver—A Book for Young Readers and Their Teachers.
Sharon is a poet-performer, playwright, and author of three editio...
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A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving
love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines
the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight
today. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in ch...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Harold Jaffe, author of 22 volumes of fiction,
novels, docu-fiction, and essays, most recently Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word
Stories and Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories. His books have been translated
into 15 languages, including German, Japanes...
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