Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Jo Nesbo, author of "The Devil's Star," a crime
novel set in Oslo, Norway. A musician, songwriter, and economist, Jo Nesbo is
also one of Europe's most acclaimed crime writers. Nesbo is the winner of the
Glass Key Award, northern Europe's most p...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with David Mitchell, whose most recent book is "The
Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet," a historical novel of corruption,
betrayal and love in Japan in 1799, when the island nation was almost
entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quaranti...
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Host Ed Goldberg talks with artist Lili Ristagno, about "Short Fuse: a True
Story Told in Pictures," a graphic non-fiction book about the teenage spree
killers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate.
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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Portland mystery author Phillip Margolin about
his latest book, Supreme Justice, a novel of murder and conspiracy at the
surpeme court.
Phillip Margolin grew up in New York City and Levittown, New York. He has
been a Peace Corps volunteer in ...
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Host Erik Jorgen Jorgensen interviews writer Aimee Bender, author of the
acclaimed novel, "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake." The book tells the
story of a nine year old girl who bites into her mother’s homemade
lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift:...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland author Ann Littlewood about her second
"zoo-dunnit", "Did Not Survive," published by Poisoned Pen Press. The mystery
continues where "Night Kill" left off. Now-pregnant zoo keeper Iris Oakley
finds her boss gravely injured in an elephan...
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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Portland writer Caroline Miller, author of
"Heart Land," stories of Depression-Era Ohio and "Gothic Spring," a novel
of passion and bad behavior in rural 19th Century England.
Caroline Miller has published numerous short stories in publications ...
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Host Emily Young speaks with Barbara Pope about her second mystery novel "The
Blood of Lorraine." The story takes place in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair,
when the murder of two Jews in Nancy reveals the darker side of human nature.
Magistrate Bernard Martin has moved to th...
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Host Crystal Leighty interviews former New York Times restaurant critic Frank
Bruni about his memoir, BORN ROUND: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious
Appetite. What many didn’t know about Frank was his history as a
compulsive eater – he made the most unlikely of foo...
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Host Cecil Prescod speaks with Thomas Chatterton Williams about his memoir,
LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. In
the book Williams describes how he managed to juggle two disparate
lifestyles--"keeping it real" in his friends' eyes an...
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