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Between the Covers on 3/25/09

Airs at: Wed, 03/25/2009 at 5:00pm

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Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Yiyun Li, author of "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" and "The Vagrants," her debut novel, which is set in China in the late 1970s. It deals with human frailty and courage. CD-1339 Read more

Between the Cover on 2/23/09

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2009 at 4:00pm

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Host Ed Goldberg interviews M. Thomas Cooper, author of "42," a novel set in Portland about a man's missing family and his slow descent into madness. CD-1350 Read more

Between the Covers on 2/09/09

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2009 at 4:00pm

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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Laura Lippman, author of "Another Thing to Fall," a novel of murder on a TV shoot in Baltimore. CD-1500 Read more

Black History Month Musings

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Co-hosts Hosts Emma Ford and Patricia Welch share books and Black History Month local activities . Also discuss the significance of this month to African-Americans. Read more

Between the Covers on 02/02/09

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2009 at 11:00am - 11:30am

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Host Ed Goldberg interviews Kat Richardson, author of Underground, a detective horror hybrid set in Seattle. Kat Richardson is a cross-genre writer, creating a combination of Science Fiction/Fantasy and Mystery/Crime no matter how hard she tries to write something else--alt... Read more

The Amazing Bruce Bickford

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

For more than 40 years, maverick stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford has been constructing dreamlike landscapes and bringing them to life, gaining notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind behind the Frank Zappa films Baby Snakes and The Amazing Mister Bickford. The subje... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Jewell Parker Rhodes discusses "Yellow Moon"

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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Last month we interviewed Kelly McWilliams, author of Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay. She credited her mother's example as a great influence on her writing. We interviewed her mother, author Jewell Parker Rhodes, 15 years ago, so we're delighted to rebroadcast our 2008 ... Read more

UPA Retrospective

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2008 at 5:00pm

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Words & Pictures celebrates 65 years of the UPA animation studio with rare audio clips and stories from the people who were there. Guest Jack Heiter helped animate Mister Magoo, Roger Ramjet, and the forgotten 1960's classic Gay Purr-ee; and animation historian Tee Bosusto... Read more

Between the Covers on 08/18/08

Airs at: Mon, 08/18/2008 at 5:00pm

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Host Jim Schumock interviews radio-host and author Scott Simon about his book, "Windy City: A Novel of Politics". The book provides an insider's view of Chicago's urban political fray. CD-1338 Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper, Robert Phillips, Gloria McMurtry share their favorites

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

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In this Summer Reads program, author J California Cooper, Reflections Coffee & Books co-owner Gloria McMurtry, local leader Robert Phillips and archeologist Paris Williams offered a bright and varied palette of summer reading favorites. Read more