Novelist Caroline Leavitt joins us to talk about publishing, believing in
your writing, her latest novel With or Without You, as well as
her upcoming book. Caroline is the New York Times bestselling author or
Pictures of You and nine other novels. Her writing has appear...
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Walter Mosley is much more than a successful mystery writer. He will be
remembered by most readers as the creator of the Easy Rawlins mysteries,
but in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, he shows that he is an
astute social critic. His lead character, Socrates Fortlo...
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Aaron Durán is a comics writer, novelist, and creator of the long-running
Portland podcast Geek in the City. For his debut graphic novel about a
young indigenous sorceress, he teamed up with Spain-based artist Sara Soler
and letterer Jaime Martinez. Season of the Br...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Zero Fare: While other cities, like Kansas City and Olympia, have abolished
fares on public transport, TriMet is poised to approve a substantial fare
hike in the Portland met...
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the
following segments:
Border Patrol: Nearly every year since the 1990s the U.S. Congress has
increased the appropriation for the Border Patrol and the whole apparatus of
border protection. Yet eve...
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Book Mole Frann Michel reviews The Corner That Held Them, published in 1948,
the sixth novel by British queer communist musicologist and writer Sylvia
Townsend Warner (1893–1978). Set mostly in a 14th-century Benedictine
convent between the Black Death of 1349 and the Pe...
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Norm Diamond hosts the Moles’ tribute to MLK Day, which includes the
following segments:
Critical Race Theory: Bill Resnick talks to Malik Miah who made a living as
an aviation mechanic and spent most of his life fighting racism in the
unions. He has written several ...
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On a day celebrating Martin Luther King, writer and photographer Matt Witt
reviews a memoir by another African American from Georgia who also had a day
named after him. The memoir is called Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred
Rembert. Growing up in rural Georgia, Rembert n...
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After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train,
which crashes on the way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is
misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in
the accident. The Harkness Family, having nev...
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Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want, graces Between the Covers with an
interview on her new novel Flight, a poignant inquiry on social class, love,
and family.
Lily King calls Flight "arresting and powerful".
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