Between The Covers

  In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how t... Read more

  Jake Vermaas speaks to poet Lauren Camp about her collection One Hundred Hungers. In her new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and rit... Read more

  "As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Yanara Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta tellin... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Jamie Harrison, author of the new book The Widow Nash. A young woman is called in to uncover the missing profits after her dying father returns from a business deal empty-handed. Her father’s business partner, who also happens to be her ... Read more

  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Julie Israel, author of the new book Juniper Lemon’s Happiness Index. It is the story of a teen girl struggling to look on the bright side while dealing with the loss of her charismatic older sister and navigating the perils of high scho... Read more

  "Mary Ruefle is, in this humble bookseller’s opinion, the best prose-writing poet in America. (And one of our best poets, too.) My Private Property, her latest collection of stories, essays, and asides, is as joyous and singular a book as you’ll read... "--Stephen Spa... Read more

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, b... Read more

  "Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist." —Francisco Goldman "The relationship between art and violence is at the core of Herrera’s slim yet powerful novel about the various members of a drug-trafficking ring in an unnamed territory allegorically aligned with northern M... Read more

Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of poems Announcements from the Planetarium, published by Oregon’s own Flowstone Press. Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s L... Read more

Gregory Pardlo's Digest, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry "He explores what is American, what is African American, what is the Other, what is city, what is suburban, what is personal and what is persona. Digest offers a changing, rich landscape of verse, both haunti... Read more