Host David Naimon talks with Portland author, Jon Raymond, about his new
novel Rain Dragon.
Raymond is the author of the novel Half-life, and the short story collection,
Livability, which won the Oregon Book Award and contained two stories that
became the critically accl...
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Host David Naimon talks with Portland author, Jon Raymond, about his new
novel Rain Dragon.
Raymond is the author of the novel Half-life, and the short story
collection, Livability, which won the Oregon Book Award and contained two
stories that became the critically ac...
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Host Jennifer Kemp speaks with local author Ruth Tenzer Feldman about her
book "Blue Thread." It's 1912. Sixteen-year-old Miriam Josefsohn is groomed
for the life of a socialite, but dreams of working in the family print shop.
When her father refuses to train her as his ...
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Host Suzanne LaGrande speaks with Maxine Hong Kingston about her memoir
"I Love a Broad Margin to My Life." just out in paperback.
"Kingston is a gentle advocate for justice and peace, an innovative creator
of unconventional, mythic, and captivating tales. The very struc...
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Jim Schumock hosts a "Best Books Special," featuring reviews of some of the
best fiction and nonfiction books of the last year with guests Will Peters of
Anni Bloom's Books and Sally McPherson of Broadway Books. There will be many
literary thank you gifts for listeners w...
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Host Crystal Leighty speaks with Kevin Fox about his first novel, Until the
Next Time, which tells the story of Sean Corrigan, who is given a journal
left him by his father’s brother Michael—a man he had not known existed.
The journal draws Sean into a hunt for the trut...
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Dan Johnson interview Chana Wilson, author of "Riding Fury Home" inspiring
memoir of suicide, despair, and redemption. When Wilson was seven, her mother
attempted suicide with a rifle and was sent to a mental hospital; when she
returned, Wilson became her solo caretaker...
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Thrity Umrigar, author of the novel "The World We Found" about the
friendship between four Indian women and their past and present, talks about
her work and her career with host Bookwaves host Richard Wolinsky.
Thrity Umrigar is the author of three other novels—The Space...
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On Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews author and painter
Ted Katz about his book, The Studio Within.
Katz was born in Philadelphia, PA. While a fellow of Harvard, Katz studied at
the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and at the Boston Museum School of ...
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Host David Naimon talks with writer, Nathan Englander, about his new
short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
Englander burst on the literary scene in 1999 with For The Relief of
Unbearable Urges, a story collection that earned him the ...
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