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Airs at: Thu, 04/18/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Every third Thursday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

 

 

A weekly show featuring interviews with locally and nationally known authors of both fiction and non-fiction.

Hosted by Avvy Mar

 

 

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Letter to a Stranger: To the Ones Who Haunt Us

Airs at: Thu, 03/03/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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How do brief encounters with strangers change us?   In this episode of Disobedient Femmes, Suzanne LaGrande  speak with essayist, teacher, and editor Colleen Kinder who has just published Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us.   In the interview, Ms. Kinde... Read more

Elizabeth McCracken, from Boston to Austin

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays by Marc Bookman

Airs at: Thu, 01/20/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy." -- Martin Luther King On today's episode, we welcome Marc Bookman, author of the new book A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays from T... Read more

Australia’s Queen of the Short Story

Airs at: Thu, 12/30/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
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Cate Kennedy, award-winning short story writer, poet, and novelist stops by to discuss the drive for stories, the mechanics of what makes them shine, and why we need them.  Author of the story collections Dark Roots and Like A House on Fire as well as the novel The World Be... Read more

Between the Covers on 12/16/21

Airs at: Thu, 12/16/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Ordinary Psalms by Julia Levine

Airs at: Thu, 11/18/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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This week on Between the Covers, we talk to the poet Julia Levine  about her new collection Ordinary Psalms.  Her fourth collection explores the sacred found in the earthly themes of mortality, the degradation of the sacred natural world, cruelty and the power of love to ho... Read more

Between the Covers on 10/21/21

Airs at: Thu, 10/21/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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What Passes as Love

Airs at: Thu, 10/07/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
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Suzanne LaGrande speaks with author Trisha Thomas about her latest book, What Passes as Love.   Set in antebellum Virginia,  What Passes as Love tells the story of Dahlia Holt, a light-skinned black woman who works as a servant in the home of a large slave owner who is in... Read more

Horse Whisperer

Airs at: Thu, 09/30/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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“Horses, in their capacity to heal, become a mirror of our   inner life. This is where and how the work begins. The horse   that chooses us reflects our deepest self to us.”   While in Costa Rica for a month to work on writing a book Rosalyn Berne decided to go to take ... Read more

Between the Covers on 09/30/21

Airs at: Thu, 09/30/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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