Between The Covers

  Today on Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews artist, writer and author Austin Kleon discussing his latest book Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York T... Read more

  Pulitzer prize and National Book Award-finalist Christine Schutt talks with David Naimon about her latest story collection Pure Hollywood. “Nobody writes like Schutt . . . and her latest collection is the perfect entry point for readers new to her work . . . In each o... Read more

  Today on Between The Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews Caroline Criado Perez, writer,  broadcaster, feminist activist and author of Invisible Women: Gender Bias in a World Designed for Men. Recently published, Invisible Women explores how data helps perpetuate g... Read more

  Today on Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews science writer, lecturer and author Thomas Hager, discussing his newly published book, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine   Behind every landmark drug is a story. It co... Read more

Between the Covers brings you a special airing of the show Bookwaves. Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw "Wonder Woman" and a legend in underground comics, discusses her memoir, "Last Girl Standing" and other recent books with host Richard Wolinsky.   Read more

  “This is more than Mitchell S. Jackson’s story, and as he traces his great-grandparents’ exodus from Alabama to Portland and the subsequent lives of his relatives…he captures the cyclical nature of poverty and neglect…The prose is a stunning mix of internal monologue ... Read more

  “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as dee... Read more