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Is How Should a Person Be? a novel, a memoir, a self-help manual, or a
book of philosophy? It is all of these things and more. Host David Naimon
talks with Sheila Heti about her new book, "a raw, startling, genre-defying
novel of friends, sex, and love in the new millen...
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Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with Anna Keesey about her new novel Little
Century, which tells the story of eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers, who,
after the death of her mother, heads west in search of her only living
relative.
She settles in the lawless town of Century...
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Host Jim Schumock speaks with Bejamin Busch about his new memoir Dust to
Dust, which is about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the
adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch—a
decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who s...
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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 st...
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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 ...
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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, t...
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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 tri...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with 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 ...
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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...
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