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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
15 augustus 2013 · 30 min
Greer on his heroine's late wish to escape the troubled 1980's, his experience inhabiting a female narrative voice and the gender traveling implicit in his latest novel.
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Linda Spalding: The Purchase
8 augustus 2013 · 30 min
Linda Spalding on her historical novel, the story of an abolitionist in Antebellum America forced to buy a slave, and the inherent conflicts of spirit and commerce.
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Tao Lin: Taipei
1 augustus 2013 · 29 min
The author of "Shoplifting from American Apparel" on writing his latest novel, written in meticulously careful prose.
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James Kelman: Mo Said She Was Quirky
25 juli 2013 · 30 min
Scottish writer James Kelman on his penchant for internal dialogue and his a working-class romance set in modern-day London.
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Anne Carson: Red Doc>
18 juli 2013 · 30 min
Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge, and her poetry novels Autobiography of Red and the follow-up, Red Doc>.
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Tom Drury: Pacific
11 juli 2013 · 30 min
Tom Drury latest novel follows a resident of his fictional Grouse County who has moved to Los Angeles to reunite with his mother, co-star of a New-Agey TV series.
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Isabel Allende: Maya's Notebook
4 juli 2013 · 30 min
A troubled teen who seeks refuge from the demon of addiction is also a symbol for a host of social ills in post-socialist Chile and present-day America.
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David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
27 juni 2013 · 30 min
Reading David Sedaris is like watching an aerialist. His famed humor pieces take escalating risks while never failing to bring off smooth, astonishing landings.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah
20 juni 2013 · 30 min
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie prefers thorny, resistant characters to likeable ones. She talks about why readers shouldn't settle for characters that are less than difficult.
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Marisa Silver: Mary Coin
13 juni 2013 · 30 min
Inspired by an iconic American image, Marisa Silver's Mary Coin imagines the fabric of life behind Dorothea Lange's depression-era photograph, "Migrant Mother."
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Alice Fulton: Cascade Experiment
6 juni 2013 · 30 min
Alice Fulton wants to "dirty" lyric poetry by making it bear witness to the grievous geo-politics of the present.
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Rae Armantrout: Just Saying
30 mei 2013 · 30 min
Rae Armantrout's poems apprehend the world as a place charged by the nonexistent supernatural. For her, the eerie thing is that ghosts don't exist.
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Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword
23 mei 2013 · 30 min
Pura Lopez-Colomé's poetry, translated by Forrest Gander, envisions the body as a mystically rich reservoir of experience and language.
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Aleksandar Hemon: The Book of My Lives
16 mei 2013 · 30 min
Aleksandar Hemon takes us though his life from his childhood in Sarajevo -- from the public tragedy of warfare to the private catastrophe of the loss of his child.
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Margaret Atwood on Innovation
9 mei 2013 · 30 min
Margaret Atwood has embraced the frontiers of online literary culture. She reflects on her exploration of literary innovation and why Hermes is the patron of the new(s).
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Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers
2 mei 2013 · 29 min
A novel of multiple voices, motorcycles, and swift zigzags between separate times and places.
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David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life
25 april 2013 · 30 min
David Shields explores the power of the written word in his new book of essays.
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Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
18 april 2013 · 30 min
Mohsin Hamid mocks the self-help genre in his new novel.
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Sam Lipsyte:The Fun Parts
11 april 2013 · 30 min
The brazen, satirical stories in Sam Lipsyte's latest book incite reactions that run the gamut from anger to outrage to sheer hilarity.
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Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed
4 april 2013 · 30 min
Set on the Princeton campus in 1905, a penetrating social commentary masquerades as a classic American Gothic.
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Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table
28 maart 2013 · 30 min
Ondaatje discusses his turn from concealment to revelation and reflects on the magic of youth.
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Jess Walter: We Live in Water
21 maart 2013 · 30 min
How did Jess Walter make the leap between his romantic novel, "Beautiful Ruins," and the end-of-the-world sadness of his stories in "We Live in Water?"
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Eloise Klein Healy: A Wild Surmise
14 maart 2013 · 29 min
The recently named the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles reads selections from her new collection and reflects on what it means to be a poet of place today.
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Luis Alberto Urrea, Part Two
7 maart 2013 · 30 min
Luis Alberto Urrea ("The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "Queen of America") continues to discuss his saga inspired by the life of Teresita Urrea, "the Mexican Joan of Arc."
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Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
28 februari 2013 · 30 min
Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican curandera...
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George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part Two
21 februari 2013 · 30 min
In this second interview, George Saunders delves further into the dark-comic twists and turns of his recent short story collection. (Part 2 of 2)
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Nick Flynn: The Reenactments
14 februari 2013 · 30 min
Nick Flynn on the strange days on the set of Being Flynn, a film adapted from his personal memoir, and starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.
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Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then
7 februari 2013 · 29 min
Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in ten years is an emotionally bare story about the erosion of a marriage.
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George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part One
31 januari 2013 · 30 min
George Saunders reflects on writing, "infinitely" revising, and how he finds the voices for his luminous but smudged characters. (Part 1 of 2)
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Ange Mlinko: Shoulder Season; Marvelous Things Overheard
24 januari 2013 · 30 min
Poet Ange Mlinko reads poems from her forthcoming collection and talks about the way that poetry braids difficulty and pleasure.
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Lydia Millet: Magnificence
17 januari 2013 · 30 min
In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.
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Amy Wilentz: Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
10 januari 2013 · 30 min
Journalist Amy Wilentz's admiring and sober portrait of post-earthquake Haiti...
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Antoine Wilson: Panorama City
3 januari 2013 · 30 min
The aimless hero of Antoine Wilson's second novel takes the world at face value and wishes to impart wisdom to his unborn son, after a life of suspended childhood himself.
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Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
27 december 2012 · 30 min
Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition.
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Charles Burns: The Hive
20 december 2012 · 29 min
Burns reflects on the eerie spaces and dark themes that populate his graphic novels, as well as the nature of suspense that does not necessarily resolve into explanation.
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Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
13 december 2012 · 29 min
A ghost story about the weave of storytelling itself, written in sparse fragments of dialogue punctuated by faint embroidery, grim illustrations, and blank spaces.
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Christine Schutt: Prosperous Friends
6 december 2012 · 30 min
Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's new novel written in hypnotic prose.
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Scott Shepherd and John Collins: Gatz
29 november 2012 · 30 min
A conversation with cast members about this revelatory new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby."
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David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
22 november 2012 · 30 min
David Mitchell traces the consequences of greed from the beginnings of imperialism far into the future and the end of civilization...
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Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate
15 november 2012 · 30 min
Novelist and social critic Chris Kraus on her latest novel, where romance and social redemption collide in post-Patriot Act America.
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Chris Ware: Building Stories
8 november 2012 · 30 min
Graphic novelist Chris Ware stretches the notion of the book to fantastic proportions in his latest publication...
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Craig Nova: The Constant Heart
1 november 2012 · 30 min
Craig Nova's fourteenth novel conveys readers into dark and discomforting realms of the unseen, where human organs are harvested for sale on the black market...
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Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
25 oktober 2012 · 30 min
British novelist Martin Amis discusses how a writer makes a good character endearing when readers want to root for the villain in his new work.
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Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
18 oktober 2012 · 30 min
Susanna Moore is interested in the things her characters don’t know. Her new novel is a story of innocence and dread.
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Lawrence Norfolk: John Saturnall's Feast
11 oktober 2012 · 29 min
British writer, Lawrence Norfolk on his new novel of historical fiction and how his desire to write about love and need relates to his epicurean tale of appetite and hunger.
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Robert Hass: What Light Can Do
4 oktober 2012 · 30 min
Former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass explores certain obsessions in his first collection of essays.
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Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue
20 september 2012 · 30 min
In his new novel, how did Michael Chabon dare to speak for black characters and black neighborhoods? Is this novel audacious and usurping? His answers may surprise you.
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Joshua Cohen: Four New Messages
13 september 2012 · 30 min
The prolific young writer talks about his new book, as well as Internet culture, language and fiction.
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Neal Stephenson: Some Remarks
6 september 2012 · 29 min
Neal Stephenson, a sort of contemporary Dickens (from Seattle,) talks about essays and other writing; science fiction and mainstream literature.
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Mary Ruefle: Madness, Rack, and Honey
30 augustus 2012 · 30 min
Mary Ruefle brings refreshment and beauty to basic instincts and, in the process, creating mystery, surprise and, well, yes, poetry.