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Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Every third Thursday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

 

 

A weekly show featuring interviews with locally and nationally known authors of both fiction and non-fiction.

Hosted by Avvy Mar

 

 

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Between the Covers on 07/22/10

Airs at: Thu, 07/22/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Crystal Leighty interviews former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni about his memoir, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite.  What many didn’t know about Frank was his history as a compulsive eater – he made the most unlikely of foo... Read more

Thomas Chatterton Williams on "LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture "

Airs at: Thu, 07/15/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his memoir, LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. In the book Williams describes how he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles--"keeping it real" in his friends' eyes an... Read more

Novelist Laurie Notaro on "Spooky Little Girl"

Airs at: Thu, 07/08/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Laurie Notaro, author of Spooky Little Girl, a funny novel about a woman whose life changes after she is killed by a bus. Laurie Notaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She packed her bags for Eugene, Oregon, once s... Read more

Diane Hammond on "Seeing Stars," her novel on child actors in Hollywood

Airs at: Thu, 07/01/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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 Host Ed Goldberg interviews Pacific Northwest writer Diane Hammond, author of Going to Bend, Homesick Creek, and Hannah's Dream. She talks about her latest book Seeing Stars, a novel about child actors in Hollywood with talent managers, agents, coaches, directors and teach... Read more

Between the Covers on 06/30/10

Airs at: Wed, 06/30/2010 at 10:30am - 11:00am
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews award-winning writer Justin Cronin, author of "The Passage", which describes a world where civilization is swiftly crumbling into a primal landscape of predators and prey and two people flee in search of sanctuary. Born in New England, Ju... Read more

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Airs at: Thu, 06/24/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Bruce Silverman speaks with Roberta Gratz, author of "The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs." Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that New York City regenerated itself because of the waning power of Robert Mo... Read more

Biographer Jimmy McDonough on "Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen"

Airs at: Thu, 06/17/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Jimmy McDonough, author of Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, a biography of the country music diva. Jimmy McDonough’s biography of Neil Young, Shakey, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller. He has also written biographies of R... Read more

Between the Covers on 06/10/10

Airs at: Thu, 06/10/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Greg Bear about his book, "Mariposa," a science fiction novel of a crumbling America, broke and controlled by corporations. Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, including BLOOD MUSIC, THE FORGE OF GOD... Read more

Between the Covers on 06/03/10

Airs at: Thu, 06/03/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Allison Milionis speaks with Zach Dundas, a Portland freelance journalist. He worked as a reporter at the Missoula Independent and the Willamette Week. He has written for Good Magazine, the Associated Press, Maxim, Metropolis, Portland Monthly and a strange and mismatched v... Read more

Glen David Gold on his new novel "Sunnyside"

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside, a historical novel set during World War I. It features Charlie Chaplin and Rin Tin Tin. Glen David Gold is the author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil.    CD-1737 Read more