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The guest is Portland writer Bill Deresiewicz, author of A JANE AUSTEN
EDUCATION: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things
that Really Matter.
When Bill Deresiewicz was forced to read Jane Austen in graduate school, he
discovered that Austen was p...
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Geraldine Brooks, best-selling author and
winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for March) about her new book, CALEB’S
CROSSING, which was inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first
Native American to graduate from Harvard Colleg...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with local writer Heather Sharfeddin about her new
book "Damaged Goods," a novel of redemption and second chances set in the
Willamette Valley.
Heather Sharfeddin's other books are "Sweetwater Burning" and "Windless
Summer."
http://sharfeddin.com/
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Ann Crittenden talks about the 10th anniversary of her bestselling book "The
Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the
Least Valued". Ann shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and
made dependent by a society that exploits thos...
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The guest is Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United
States, and author of the new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our
Call to Defend Them. Pacelle will discuss the deep links of the human-animal
bond as wll as the conflicting implulses tha...
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Host Lyn Moelich spoke with Tod Davies, author of Snotty Saves the Day: The
History of Arcadia. In this fantasy from Exterminating Angel Press, a
manuscript, delivered by Owl, is left under an old fir tree in the snow, and
another world's scientists have discovered that...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with fiction writer Peter Mountford about his
new novel "A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism," which tells the story of
Gabriel de Boya, a recent college graduate who works for an unscrupulous
hedge fund while pretending to be a freelanc...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with fiction writer Peter Mountford about his
new novel A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, which tells the story of
Gabriel de Boya, a recent college graduate who works for an unscrupulous
hedge fund while pretending to be a freelance ...
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The guest is Portland writer Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the new memoir "The
Chronology of Water." The themes in the memoir include womanhood, motherhood,
stillbirth, women's reproductive rights, bisexuality, love and fatherhood,
promiscuity and sexual violence, drug a...
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