Between The Covers

Host Jim Schumock speaks with Phil Klay about his novel "Redeployment," which takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.  Interwoven with themes of brut... Read more

Leni Zumas and Luca DiPierro's A Wooden Leg is a novel in 64 cards, consisting of 64 drawings and corresponding captions which the reader is free to arrange into a variety of narrative and visual sequences. They join host David Naimon in a discussion of A Wooden Leg, con... Read more

Host Sarika Mehta speaks with Portland born-and-raised journalist Julia Cooke about her new book The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba, which combines narrative with detailed reporting and shares the unique stories of those Cooke encountered during time spent ... Read more

Host Lisa Loving interviews Annabelle Gurwitch, actress, author, and activist. Annabelle Gurwitch is the author of three books. Publisher’s Weekly calls her forthcoming memoir, I SEE YOU MADE AN EFFORT: compliments, indignities and survival stories from the edge of 50, “... Read more

Between the Covers welcomes MHCC English faculty members, Lidia Yuknavitch, Michelle Hampton, and Andy Gurevich to talk about Writing the Body, Workshops and Readings by Kimberly Dark and Christopher Ryan. May 8-10, 14:  Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham. The MHCC In... Read more

Award-winning author Michael M. Pacheco brings his mastery of the thriller and fantasy genres as well as his wit and heart to this collection of the must-reads in Latino folklore and stories of magic. This outstanding collection of 17 brilliant short stories, each just ... Read more

Harper’s Magazine may have said it best when describing today’s guest, Lorrie Moore:  “Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore.”  Over the... Read more

Between the Covers welcomes local author and writing teacher Tom Spanbauer to discuss his new novel, I Loved You More.  "I Loved You More," (Hawthorne Books, 2014) is a rich and expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak covering twenty-five years. At the heart of the s... Read more

The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate li... Read more

Host Lisa Loving speaks with Portland author Nicole Mones about her latest novel, NIGHT IN SHANGHAI, which illuminates the pivotal role of African-American musicians in the Chinese jazz age.  Recruited from the depths of the Depression, whisked to the epicenter of Asia’s... Read more