Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Time of Useful Consciousness
23 augustus 2012 · 30 min
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 93-year-old renowned Beat generation poet and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers, on his latest adventure, a dire warning for America.
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John Irving: In One Person
16 augustus 2012 · 30 min
Academy Award-winner John Irving returns with a compelling novel, a tormented portrait of desire and secrecy.
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Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be?
9 augustus 2012 · 30 min
Neo-feminist Sheila Heti on her novel and journal, a how-to book and a philosophical treatise. Heti wants to undo coherence and, in many ways, she has.
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Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins
2 augustus 2012 · 30 min
Walter on his much acclaimed new work, a completely pleasurable summer read -- and not your typical Hollywood novel.
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango
26 juli 2012 · 30 min
Bookworm Michael Silverblatt and co-interviewer Jim Krusoe talk with the Hungarian author and screenwriter about modernist novels and filmmaker Bela Tarr.
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Jim Krusoe: Parsifal
19 juli 2012 · 30 min
Jim Krusoe talks about his new novel, where a sacred fool searches for his own private holy grail and perhaps saves the world from destruction.
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Victoria Nelson: Gothicka
12 juli 2012 · 29 min
Victoria Nelson writes about the rise of the supernatural into mainstream popular culture. Vampires and werewolves, no longer monsters, have become heroes.
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Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King
5 juli 2012 · 30 min
A middle-aged, American salesman experiences the challenges of the post-industrial economy. He travels to Saudi Arabia, hoping to sell Internet technology to its King.
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Richard Ford: Canada, Part 2
28 juni 2012 · 29 min
The second of a two-part conversation with Richard Ford about his writing style and the themes of his robust, new novel.
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Richard Ford: Canada, Part 1
21 juni 2012 · 29 min
The first of a two-part conversation about Richard Ford's seventh novel, the powerful story of a teenager, a bank robbery and life’s contradictory experiences.
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Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
14 juni 2012 · 29 min
Pushcart and O. Henry Prize-winner Ben Fountain talks about heroes, war, and street language in his new novel.
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Cees Nooteboom: Self-Portrait of an Other
7 juni 2012 · 30 min
Dutch author, Cees Nooteboom discusses the translation process and his poems of myth and landscape inspired by the drawings of Berlin artist, Max Neumann.
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Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin-The Life and the Legend
31 mei 2012 · 30 min
Susan Orlean on her moving account of how an orphaned puppy from France became a Hollywood movie star and a beloved canine icon.
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Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men
24 mei 2012 · 30 min
British Indian writer Hari Kunsru on his new novel that explores loss, spiritual reconnection and sacrifice.
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Adam Levin: Hot Pink
17 mei 2012 · 30 min
Adam Levin on how behavior, B.F. Skinner, and his own training to be a therapist influenced his wild and crazy collection of stories.
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Etgar Keret: Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
10 mei 2012 · 30 min
Israeli writer Etgar Keret talks about the explosive and funny stories that voyage into the fantastic in his new book.
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Peter Behrens: The O'Briens
3 mei 2012 · 30 min
Peter Behrens on his epic family saga, a compelling tale of Irish immigration during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
26 april 2012 · 30 min
Heidi Julavits on female rivalry and the psychic bonds between mothers and daughters in her imaginative new novel.
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William H. Gass: Life Sentences
19 april 2012 · 30 min
Eighty-seven-year-old, William Gass discusses his new book of essays on the art of crafting words into prose.
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Krys Lee: Drifting House
12 april 2012 · 30 min
Krys Lee on her collection of short stories about immigrants leading two lives: the ones they left behind, and new lives they can't quite inhabit.
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Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
5 april 2012 · 30 min
Jeanette Winterson on her new memoir that details how she survived being adopted by a dominating and wildly eccentric Pentecostal mother.
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Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye
29 maart 2012 · 29 min
The true tale of a white boy from Oakland who became a drug addict, criminal,
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Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part II
22 maart 2012 · 30 min
Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part Two of two)
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Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part I
15 maart 2012 · 29 min
Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part One of 2)
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Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet
8 maart 2012 · 30 min
What if language turned on its human users? Ben Marcus his novel, a dark story about language and the breakdown of language.
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Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
1 maart 2012 · 30 min
Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson discuss science fiction-prophet, writer Philip K Dick.
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Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend
23 februari 2012 · 30 min
Can a gay man and a straight man be friends? Edmund White explores the gay-straight axis in Jack Holmes & His Friend.
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Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish
16 februari 2012 · 30 min
Ayad Akhtar on coming-of-age as a Muslim in Milwaukee. We discuss the nature of cultural understanding and misunderstanding, sexual and spiritual awakening.
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Wayne Koestenbaum: Humiliation
9 februari 2012 · 30 min
Most everyone has a skeleton in the closet. Wayne Koestenbaum talks about those gruesome and hideous moments most of us would rather not remember.
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Steve Erickson: These Dreams of You
2 februari 2012 · 29 min
Steve Erickson latest novel seeks to find a haven in the midst of our economic despair and our fears of global catastrophe.
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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
26 januari 2012 · 29 min
Leibovitz's first photo book of objects and landscapes is a triumphant array of iconic images. We talk about her opinions on light, digital imagery and distilling time.
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Ismet Prcic: Shards
19 januari 2012 · 30 min
This first novel follows the narrator who just happens to be named Ismet Prcic from Bosnia to America, from a radical theater group to a creative writing program.
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Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm
12 januari 2012 · 30 min
Dennis Cooper on the inarticulate emotions that underlie the razzle-dazzle of secret corridors, lush language, brutality and desire.
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Jonathan Lethem: The Ecstasy of Influence
5 januari 2012 · 30 min
Autobiographical essays and Jonathan Lethem on his favorite books, spending time with James Brown and the writer's role as public intellectual.
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Peter Gizzi: Threshold Songs
29 december 2011 · 30 min
This book of poetry is the product of great grief in Peter Gizzi's life: the death of his mother, his brother and his best friend...
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Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes
22 december 2011 · 30 min
Paul La Farge on his innovation of the novel form. His new novel, though it is published between covers, only represents one third of the book. The other two-thirds...
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Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve
15 december 2011 · 30 min
The true story of the historical detective whose work uncovered the 1000 year-old poem that shook the early Christian world and marked the beginning of the Renaissance...
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Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
1 december 2011 · 30 min
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on his new novel, in which he learned to "do" character.
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W.S. Merwin: The Shadow of Sirius
24 november 2011 · 30 min
A rebroadcast of an engaging conversation with our great octogenarian laureate, W.S. Merwin.
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Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon
17 november 2011 · 30 min
With little known about Pat Nixon, Ann Beattie decided to write a novel in the form of a writer's manual, she used Mrs. Nixon as a model of how to create a character.
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Tony D'Souza: Mule
10 november 2011 · 30 min
Tony D'Souza reveals the life events that led him to write a novel about a solid, middle-class kid who becomes a drug mule...
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Lawrence Weschler: Uncanny Valley
3 november 2011 · 30 min
The veteran contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney's distills his knowledge about how to structure the essay—from cultural comedies to political tragedies.
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Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
27 oktober 2011 · 30 min
The author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter takes breathtaking risks in exploring a morally complex story. The protagonist is a renegade and convicted sex offender...
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Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
20 oktober 2011 · 30 min
We visited Harold Bloom to talk about his new book, but when you talk with Bloom, you talk about politics, poetry, teaching, aging, reading and ultimately, respect...
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Justin Torres: We the Animals
13 oktober 2011 · 30 min
This sequence of short stories, or prose poems, or vignettes (author Justin Torres is open to all three descriptions) adds up to a little novel about an underclass family....
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Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
6 oktober 2011 · 30 min
Wilson's goofy, sweet-hearted first novel is about a family of performance artists. The Fang family's siblings are struggling to leave their parents behind in order to lead a normal life...
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Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
29 september 2011 · 30 min
Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of Héctor Tobar's new novel, is a nanny is accused of kidnapping her charges, when she is, in fact, taking them to their grandfather....
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Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning
22 september 2011 · 30 min
Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled...
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Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
15 september 2011 · 30 min
The Bookworm learns about retro culture from a master of rock criticism. Simon Reynolds meditates on the aspects of global music that have led to endless recycling....
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Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
8 september 2011 · 30 min
An explorer of sensuality and violator of taboos, Rikki Ducornet allows a predatory psychoanalyst to narrate her new novel...