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Between the Covers on 08/11/11

Airs at: Thu, 08/11/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with Donald Ray Pollock. If you found the raw depictions of last season's film WINTER BONE transfixing, then listen in as a master of Southern Goth storytelling. Donald Ray Pollock, discusses his latest novel, THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. Donald Ray Po... Read more

"You Don't Know What Art i$”

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

Guest host Wendy Webb speaks with LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs, a longstanding force in the L.A. street art scene. The Denizen Gallery @Milepost 5 and the Plum Bum Gallery brought Krebs to Portland to perform "You Don't Know What Art i$” for the closing of his visual a... Read more

Mystery writer Cara Black discusses "Murder in Passy"

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Cara Black, author of "Murder in Passy," the latest in her popular series of detective novels set in Paris and featuring Aimee Leduc. In her books Cara Black features a Paris little known outside the tourist track. In real life she lives in San... Read more

Author Sabur I M, Journey into a Man’s Broken Heart.

Airs at: Thu, 07/07/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Black Book Talk starts its "summer reads" series with an interview with novelist Sabur IM. This Gen-Xer discusses his book Journey into a Man’s Broken Heart with co-hosts Emma Jackon Ford and Patricia Welch. Says IM, "I always heard people say, 'It's better to have loved a... Read more

Cary Groner on "Exiles," his novel set in Kathmandu

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Former Portlander Cary Groner talks about his novel Exiles, the story of an American volunteer doctor and his teenage daughter whose lives are irrevocably changed when they move to Kathmandu and find themselves in the midst of civil war. Cary Groner studied Buddhist medita... Read more

Scott Sparling's debut novel "Wire to Wire"-- memorable characters and a relentless pace

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host David Naimon interviews Portland writer Scott Sparling about his debut novel, Wire to Wire, from Tin House Books. A pick of the week by Publisher's Weekly, they call Wire to Wire "well crafted and thrilling, tying together an obvious love for both Michigan and railroa... Read more

Between the Covers on 06/16/11

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

In part two of today's Between the Covers host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Trevor Richardson about his debut novel "American Bastards," a surreal novel of self-discovery and hipster culture. In this novel a number of dead rock stars try to save the world, a ... Read more

Daniel Wilson talks about his novel "Robopocalypse"

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Portland writer, television host and robotics engineer Daniel Wilson, author of the technothriller "Robopocalypse," which explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. Wilson has an M.S. and P.H.D. in Robotics, and an ... Read more

Daniel Orozco

Airs at: Thu, 06/23/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Bruce Silverman interviews short story writer Daniel Orozco and he reads from his new collection "Orientation". Orozco also talks about how he writes--creating characters, wrting from one's own experience versus from someone else's perspective, and other tricks of the trade... Read more

Tom Cramer and Jeff Jahn discuss architecture

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

Tom Cramer guest hosts, bringing on Jeff Jahn to give us "The Architecture Show." (Photo of Bud Clark Commons by Jeff Jahn) http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/06/resouce_access.html CD-2178 Read more