Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episodes
Lucy Corin : One Hundred Apocalypses
31 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We seem to be in the midst of an upsurge in dystopian art and end times anxieties. If we as a culture don’t have a sense of impending doom, we do at...
Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens
02 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Lethem is a man of many lives. For one, because of his repeated return to New York as both setting and muse in novels such as Motherless Broo...
Robert Boswell : Tumbledown
19 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
“When most of us think of today’s great American novel, we think of Franzen’s Freedom or Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad—sprawling storie...
Jami Attenberg : The Middlesteins
08 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering...
Matt Bell : In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
10 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Bell’s novel is so unlike anything else you’ll read this year that people are struggling to describe just what it is. The Washington Post say...
NoViolet Bulawayo : We Need New Names
27 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, NoViolet Bulawayo earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was the recipient of the Truman Capote fellowship. In 20...
Lenore Zion : Stupid Children
30 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon talks with Lenore Zion about her debut novel Stupid Children, a book Thomas Michael Duncan of Necessary Fiction calls “a bildungs...
Benjamin Percy : Red Moon
15 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
They live among us. They are your neighbor, your mother, your lover. They change. Every teenage girl thinks she’s different. When government...
Karen Russell : Vampires in the Lemon Grove
24 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in the New Yorker’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of ...
Monica Drake : The Stud Book
18 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. A smart, ...
Sam Lipsyte : The Fun Parts
14 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A hilarious collection of stories from the writer the New York Times called “the novelist of his generation.” Returning to the form in which he be...
George Saunders : Tenth of December
14 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
“George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read All Year,” declared the cover of the New York Times Magazine several weeks ago. Since the...
Chris Kraus : Summer of Hate
30 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, filmmaker and art critic Chris Kraus talks with host David Naimon about her latest book, Summer of Hate. Her other books include the novels ...
Alexis Smith : Glaciers
15 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Portland author Alexis Smith talks with host David Naimon about Glaciers, her debut novel from Tin House books. Glaciers follows Isabel through a ...
Jess Walter : Beautiful Ruins
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon talks with Jess Walter about his sixth novel, Beautiful Ruins, a deeply human rollercoaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and ne...
Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her
27 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon speaks with Junot Diaz, who the New Yorker calls one of the top 20 writers for the 21st century. He’s the Pulitzer Prize-winning a...
Sheila Heti : How Should A Person Be?
31 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Is How Should a Person Be? a novel, a memoir, a self-help manual, or a book of philosophy? It is all of these things and more. Host David Naimon t...
Karen Thompson Walker : The Age of Miracles
14 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation o...
Vanessa Veselka : Zazen
22 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A war has either started or is about to; bombs are going off in the city, but people seem strangely disengaged. Della’s activist friends seem more c...
Adam Levin : Hot Pink
14 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions, published by McSweeney’s in 2010, arrived with a lot of buzz. An inventive, experimental book of over...
Jon Raymond : Rain Dragon
24 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon talks with Portland author, Jon Raymond, about his new novel Rain Dragon. Raymond is the author of the novel The Half-Life, and ...
Nathan Englander : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
14 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Englander burst on the literary scene in 1999 with For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, a story collection that earned him the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Aw...
Ben Marcus : The Flame Alphabet
01 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
What if the words your children spoke to you actually made you sick? Physically sick. And what if the children themselves relished in this newfound po...
Colson Whitehead : Zone One
29 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon speaks with award-winning writer Colson Whitehead about his new novel Zone One, described as a “wry take on the post-apocalyptic h...
Justin Torres : We The Animals
03 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon interviews debut novelist Justin Torres. His book, We the Animals, has been heralded for its beautiful, concentrated prose. NPR lik...
China Miéville : Embassytown
21 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction and fantasy writer China Miéville has won nearly every award in the genre and has caught the attention of mainstream publications fro...
Scott Sparling : Wire to Wire
30 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon interviews Portland writer Scott Sparling about his debut novel, Wire to Wire, from Tin House Books. A pick of the week by Publ...
Anthony Doerr : Memory Wall
13 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon speaks with writer Anthony Doerr about his latest book, Memory Wall. Doerr is the author of three other books: The Shell Collect...
Nicole Krauss : Great House
14 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Naimon speaks with Nicole Krauss about her newest novel Great House, which tells a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our...