Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Bradley K. Rosen, author of the novel Bunkie Spills, which chronicles one very long and eventful day in the life of a group of Los Angeles teenagers in 1976. The book was selected as a Powell’s Bookstore Staff Top Five Pick for 2017. Bradley’s ... Read more

Mark Nepo moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Timesbestseller The Book of Awakening.  Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller,... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money. Panio’s stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn ... Read more

  VI KHI NAO was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. She is the author most recently of Umbilical Hospital; the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016; the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press... Read more

  The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives in the strange, elemental language which ... Read more

  Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumat... Read more