Between The Covers

“A memoir for the ages . . . I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Unputdownable in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody’s desperate need for a tribe.... Read more

Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with Mitchell S. Jackson about his novel The Residue Years.  In this autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in Portland in the ’90s under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. The Residue Years switche... Read more

Mona Golabek, author of "The Children of Willesden Lane," an account of her mother's ordeal during World War II, is also a concert pianist and performer. She discusses her book, and the play created from her book, "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" with host Richard Wolinsk... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Dan Johnson, writer and KBOO volunteer, about his new book, The Air In Me, a collection of prose and poetry reflecting on Dan's life as an aging gay man. Dan Johnson retired from radio broadcasting in 2006 to pursue his passion for w... Read more

From the series Bookwaves Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat discusses her new novel, "Claire of the Sea Light," and her career with host Richard Wolinsky.  Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to the United States when she was twelve years old. Sh... Read more

Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a colonial past, spanning three generations, and shuttling from Mexico City to Oa... Read more

Color experts Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut talk about their new book, The Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet with host Kathleen Stephenson. Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut both have ... Read more

Host Dan Johnson interviews Christopher Lord about his book, The Edwin Drood Murders, the second volume in the Dickens Junction mystery series that began with The Christmas Carol Murders, a book bestselling thriller writer Chelsea Cain called “a love letter to both Dicke... Read more

Margaret Atwood discusses her latest novel, "Maddaddam," third in her speculative fiction trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake," as well as the social and political ramifications of her work, with host Richard Wolinsky from the Series BookWaves. Read more

Host David Naimon speaks with an integral part of Portland's literary community--author Kevin Sampsell.   Kevin is not only the small press curator and events coordinator at Powell’s books, he's also the editor of the Portland Noir fiction anthology,  curated this year’s... Read more