“Magical Negro is unsettlingly new: a book that incisively explores states
of black womanhood with astonishing buoyancy and grief. I can’t stop
thinking about the songs it sings, songs that feel inevitable and yet
unvoiced, complex and yet urgent; poems that are steeped ...
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“The contemporary Latin American detective novel is a form that uses the
individual’s rollicking quest as a means of resistance against repressive
structures and the violences they engender. Cristina Rivera Garza’s The
Taiga Syndrome, in this stellar translation by Suzan...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs
and poems MYKU: My Portland.
“MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in
three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s
MYKU’s with photographs from her...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Skenazy, author of the new novel Temper CA,
from Miami University Press.
Paul’s essays, stories, and book reviews have appeared in a range of
newspapers and magazines, and he’s published critical work on noir writers
such as Dashiell Hammett,...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Liz Scott, author of the new memoir This Never
Happened, from University of Hell Press.
Liz is a practicing psychologist in Portland, and a practicing writer. Her
work has appeared in The MacGuffin, New Stone Circle, and Lake Effect, among
other j...
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From “Speak Truth to Power,” about the condition of not being believed
about rape and assault; to “Goliath,” about the ways evil is used as a
form of social control; to “The Fallout,” about ecological and
generational violence, Lacy M. Johnson creates masterful, elabora...
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Today on Between the Covers, host Suzanne LaGrande interviews artist, writer
and author Austin Kleon discussing his latest book Keep Going: 10 Ways to
Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad.
In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New
York Time...
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