Between the Covers

Host Jim Schumock speaks with writer Ron Rash about his new book The Cove, a tale of the beauty of nature and love—and the darkness of superstition and fear. With The Cove, Rash, the author of Serena, returns to the Appalachian milieu of his previous novels. This is a story of a love affair doomed in the rising turmoil of WWI. At the same time The Cove explores often dangerous notions of patriotism during wartime.

Between the Covers on 07/19/12

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Thu, 07/19/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Karen Thompson Walker discusses her novel The Age of Miracles

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.

Between the Covers on 07/12/12

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Thu, 07/12/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Zazen: An interview with author Vanessa Veselka

A war has either started or is about to. Bombs are going off in the city. But people seem strangely disengaged. Della's activist friends seem more concerned about the next sex party or the finer points of vegan ideology, and customers at the vegan café where she works, talk of leaving the country for a life of escape and eco-tourism. But Della feels compelled to stay as the bombs inch closer. Even though she isn’t quite sure how to engage, and what exactly to fight for. This is the world of Zazen.

Between the Covers on 07/09/12

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Mon, 07/09/2012 - 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Interview with Mark Baumgarten, author of Love Rock Revolution

Erin Yanke interviews Mark Baumgarten, author of the book Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music. Mark will be reading in Portland July 12th, 7:30pm, at Powells Books on Burnside. The reading and book signing will be followed by a K Records tribute concert at Valentine's (9pm, $3, 21+) with Clea Partridge, Grey Anne, and others.

http://loverockrev.com/

Between the Covers on 07/05/12

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Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Anne Mendel on her debut novel, Etiquette for an Apocalypse

The guest is Portland author Anne Mendel, who discusses her debut novel, Etiquette for an Apocalypse.

It’s the 2020 Apocalypse and Sophie Cohen, former social worker turned neighborly drug dealer, must keep her family alive amid those pesky end of the world issues: starvation, earthquakes, plagues, gang violence and alas more starvation.She investigates a serial killing and takes down the sinister emerging power structure while learning to use a pizza box solar oven, bond with her chickens and blast tin cans from the perimeter fence with a Ruger 9MM.

Between the Covers on 06/28/12

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Thu, 06/28/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Writer BK Loren on her novel "Theft"

Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with writer BK Loren about her new novel "Theft," whose main character Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf, North America’s most endangered mammal, to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she knows skill alone will not sustain her. Willa is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle remorse. "Theft" is a story about family, about loss, and about a search for answers.

Between the Covers on 06/21/12

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Thu, 06/21/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Writer Bonnie Jo Campbell on her new novel ONCE UPON A RIVER

Bonnie Jo Campbell talks about her new book Once Upon a River, an odyssey of a novel about a girl's search for love and identity.

(Photo © Bradley S. Pines)

Between the Covers on 06/14/12

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Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Hot Pink: An Interview with Author Adam Levin

Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions, published by McSweeney’s in 2010, arrived with a lot of buzz. An inventive, experimental book of over one thousand pages, its protagonist was Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee, a 10 year old genius from Chicago, who may or may not be the Jewish Messiah. Levin’s short stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s and Esquire. He was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize among others.

Between the Covers on 05/31/12

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Thu, 05/31/2012 - 11:00am - 11:30am

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Ann Packer on her short story collection SWIM BACK TO ME

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Ann Packer about her story collection Swim Back to Me, now out in paperback.

Ann Packer says, "The book is made up of a novella and five short stories; the phrase 'Swim Back to Me' is the title of a song mentioned in one of the stories, 'Molten,' in which a mother grieves the loss of her teenage son by listening to his music."

Packer is also known for The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs without Words.

Between the Covers on 05/24/12

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Thu, 05/24/2012 - 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Portland author Ruth Tenzer Feldman on her novel "Blue Thread"

Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with local author Ruth Tenzer Feldman about her book "Blue Thread."

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Malcolm Boyd

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Mon, 04/14/2008

Cecil Prescod hosts a special extended interview with gay pioneer Malcolm Boyd, who rips into American culture in his new book, Samuel Joseph for President: Media Politics , Religion, and Race. Boyd is a gay elder, freedom rider, civil rights and anti-war activist. He is also the first openly gay Episcopal priest. His life partner, Mark Thompson, a writer, photographer and former Advocate editor, is also featured in the interview.

Title: Malcolm Boyd
Producer: Cecil Prescod
Length: 42:43 minutes (39.12 MB)
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Maude Barlow

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Mon, 04/14/2008

Jay Thiemeyer interviews Maude Barlow author of Blue Covenant: the Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Title: Maude Barlow
Producer: Jay Thiemeyer
Length: 32:58 minutes (30.19 MB)
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Political Books Special

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Mon, 04/07/2008

A Membership Special on Important Thinkers on Cutting Edge Issues. We speak with authors of recent outstanding political books. Guests include Loretta Napoleoni, author of Rogue Economics; Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and I Don't Believe in Athiests; Jacob Heilbrun, author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons; Ibrahim Warde, author of The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror; Maude Barlow on Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water; Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism; Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America and more.

Title: Political Books Special
Length: 56:56 minutes (19.55 MB)
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Gobshite Quarterly Special Unedited

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Mon, 03/31/2008

Host Lisa Loving speaks with RV Brannam, Moira McAuliffe and Channing Dodson, who talk about their newly published compendium of obscenities and insults. It's called How to Curse and Berate in 69+ Languages. Warning: This unedited version of the program contains language we can't use on the radio because of FCC regulations.

Title: Gobshite Quarterly Special Unedited
Producer: Lisa Loving
Length: 43:28 minutes (39.8 MB)
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Lisa Loving interviews R.V. Branham on obscenities around the world

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Sun, 03/30/2008

Lisa Loving and RV Branham of the Gobshite Quarterly talk about his new book, How to Curse and Berate in 69 + Languages, a dictionary of insults, curses and obscenities from around the world.

Title: Lisa Loving interviews R.V. Branham on obscenities around the world
Date: March 31, 2008
Genre: News and Public Affairs
Producer: Lisa Loving
Length: 43:28 minutes (39.8 MB)
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Best Books Special: Spring 2008

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Mon, 03/24/2008

Jim Schumock hosts a look at the best books of the past year with local booksellers Nina Rodda of St Johns Booksellers, Karen Ana of Looking Glass Books, Sally McPherson of Broadway Books and Michael Keefe of Annie Bloom’s Books. Special Membership offers and great literary reviews.

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, by Tobias Wolf (Jim’s favorite book of the year)
The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (A first novel)
The Age of Shiva, by Manil Suri
The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly, by Robert Vare
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, by Craig Childs
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial, by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan (Graphic novel)
Bearing the Body: A Novel, by Ehud Havazelet
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart, by Ian Ayers
The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman (A visual memoir)
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, by Rosemary Mahoney
Dreamers of the Day: A Novel, by Mary Doria Russell
KNOCKEMSTIFF, by Donald Ray Pollock (A short story collection)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (Young adult memoir)
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
World Changing: A Users Guide for the 21^st Century, by Alex Steffen, Al Gore, and Stefan Sagmeister
A Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict, by Sandra Mackey
Let Me Stand Alone, by Rachel Corrie (A collection of journal entries)
Living Like Ed: A Guide to Eco-friendly Life, by Ed Begley Jr.
The Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes, by Kathleen Robson, Alice Richter, and Marianne Filbert
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son and the Legacy of Vietnam, by Tom Bissell
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces the Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely
The Diary of a Bad Year: A Novel, by J.M. Coetzee
Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, by Jules Boykoff
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, by Dan Kennedy (memoir)
Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel, by Marie Phillips
Windy City, by Scott Simon
The Painter of Battles: A Novel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte and Margaret Sayers Peden
Mafeking Road, by Herman Charles Bosman
The Waitress Was New, by Dominique Fabre
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
The Tattoo Artist: A Novel, by Jill Ciment
Beautiful Children: A Novel, by Charles Bock
The Boat, by Nam Le (short stories)
The Hearts of Horses, by Molly Gloss
Kockroach; A Novel, by Tyler Knox
Gardens of Water: A Novel, by Alan Drew
The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness, by Elizabeth Farrelly
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, by Lisa Margonelli

Title: Best Books Special: Spring 2008
Length: 62:38 minutes (17.92 MB)
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G.M. Ford, author of "Nameless Night"

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Mon, 03/17/2008

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with G.M. Ford, author of "Nameless Night," a story of a search for a man's identity in the face of government repression.

Title: G.M. Ford, author of "Nameless Night"
Producer: Ed Goldberg
Length: 28:14 minutes (25.86 MB)
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Lisa Loving with John Gorenfeld on his political expose of the Rev. Moon and the Radical Right

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Tue, 03/11/2008

Lisa Loving interviews investigative reporter John Gorenstein, author of Bad Moon Rising: How Rev. Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom.

Title: Lisa Loving with John Gorenfeld on his political expose of the Rev. Moon and the Radical Right
Date: March 12
Genre: News and Public Affairs
Year: 2008
Producer: Lisa Loving
Length: 27:58 minutes (25.6 MB)
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Kate Maloy, Oregon writer

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Mon, 03/10/2008

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews writer Kate Maloy about her new novel, Every Last Cuckoo. Set in rural Vermont, this is the story of seventy-five-year-old Sarah Lucas and her discovery of unguessed dimensions in her own character. It explores her life after a great loss and shows that genuine love is unquenchable.

Title: Kate Maloy, Oregon writer
Length: 20:24 minutes (18.68 MB)
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Ed Goldberg interviews the authors of "Sandworms"

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Mon, 02/04/2008

Ed Goldberg interviews Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the authors of "Sandworms of Dune", the last in the saga of Frank Herbert's "Dune"

Title: Ed Goldberg interviews the authors of "Sandworms"
Length: 26:13 minutes (24.01 MB)
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Timber Beasts

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 5:26pm.

I've read the book twice and rather hoped to hear the program that the author spoke on the book. But that page was not available on your site. Anyway, I loved the book. I thought it was an exciting dose of history. Stoner brought the Portland of 1900 to life. There was intrigue that kept my interest throughout the book.