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Between the Covers on 09/23/10

Airs at: Thu, 09/23/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ed Goldberg interviews Janelle Brown, author of "This is Where We Live," a novel about a couple in L.A. whose life falls apart in the economic bust. They suffer a crushing blow to their dreams of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations. As a result they qu... Read more

Jo Nesbo, Norwegian crime writer

Airs at: Thu, 09/09/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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... Read more

Radiozine on 09/03/10

Airs at: Fri, 09/03/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Community Grooves is off this month. Instead we'll hear host Crystal Leighty speaking with writer Ann Hood about her latest novel "The Red Thread," an exploration of the adoption process, specifically the adoption of Chinese girls by five couples in Providence, Rhode Islan... Read more

Between the Covers on 09/02/10

Airs at: Thu, 09/02/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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... Read more

Lili Ristagno on "Short Fuse," her graphic non-fiction book about two teenage killers

Airs at: Thu, 08/26/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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.  CD-1993 Read more

Novelist Phillip Margolin on murder mystery: "Supreme Justice"

Airs at: Thu, 08/19/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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 ... Read more

Aimee Bender on her novel "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"

Airs at: Thu, 08/12/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
 Host Erik 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: she can... Read more

Portland author Caroline Miller on her life and work

Airs at: Thu, 07/29/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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 ... Read more

Good Summer Reads

Airs at: Thu, 08/05/2010 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
In the July Black Book Talk,  Emma Jackson Ford, O B Hill and Patricia Welch host a discussion for summer reading, and readers call in with their favorites.  Books include Yellow Moon, a novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes; The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul C... Read more

PDX author Ann Littlewood on her 2nd 'zoo-dunnit:' "Did Not Survive"

Airs at: Thu, 08/05/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
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... Read more