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Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
1 september 2011 · 30 min
Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems....
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Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
25 augustus 2011 · 30 min
At age sixteen Jon-Jon Goulian started to wear women's clothes — he couldn't say why. At age forty he wrote this memoir to account for his fascination with androgyny...
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Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus
18 augustus 2011 · 30 min
After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus Lees meer
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Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
11 augustus 2011 · 30 min
A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...
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Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2
4 augustus 2011 · 30 min
The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious' son, Abdul...(Part 2 of 2)
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Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1
28 juli 2011 · 30 min
The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious' son, Abdul...(Part 1 of 2)
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UpClose: Sapphire
24 juli 2011 · 1 uur 2 min
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's
publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..." -
Dora Malech: Say So
21 juli 2011 · 30 min
Dora Malech explores the violence of relationships...
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Chris Adrian: The Great Night
14 juli 2011 · 30 min
Oncologist and novelist Chris Adrian talks about how his need to tell and hear stories has helped him through his difficult work with children.
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John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun
7 juli 2011 · 30 min
John Sayles on how a writer gathers knowledge, the language, the unusual perspectives and the humanity to illuminate the whole arc of our history...
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Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
30 juni 2011 · 30 min
Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer celebrates his first published essay in the New Yorker. He tells us how his amateur interest in jazz led him to write a book...
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Louis B. Jones: Radiance
23 juni 2011 · 30 min
Radiance (Counterpoint) Lees meer
Mark Perdue, a physics professor who we first met in Louis B. Jones' Particles of Luck, is at the farther fringe of a complete nervous breakdown..
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John Steppling on theater, 'Fever Dreams'
16 juni 2011 · 30 min
The occasion of a Los Angeles theater festival offers playwright John Steppling (Phantom Luck) the chance to talk about theater in general and what's wrong with it.
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Ann Patchett: State of Wonder
9 juni 2011 · 30 min
Ann Patchett has written a book you can't put down. State of Wonder is a version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in South America in the heart of the jungle...
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Francine Prose: My New American Life
2 juni 2011 · 30 min
My New American Life is the immigrant story told in a new way. Francine Prose's touching and funny character, Lula, is used to suffering -- she comes from Albania...
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Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question
26 mei 2011 · 30 min
The Finkler Question is the winner of this year's Booker Prize, an amazing novel in that it's many things at once: comic, melancholic, philosophical and paradoxical.
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Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story
19 mei 2011 · 30 min
Unable to sleep after her husband, Ray Smith, died three years ago, Joyce Carol Oates spent the night keeping a journal of her day to day thoughts and experiences...
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Eileen Myles: Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
12 mei 2011 · 30 min
Fearless Eileen Myles discusses her fears in this autobiographical novel.
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Diane Ackerman: One Hundred Names for Love
5 mei 2011 · 30 min
When Diane Ackerman's husband, Paul West, suffered a stroke, the couple had to learn a new way to communicate. That led him to write a new form of novel — an aphasic novel.
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Marjorie Garber: The Use and Abuse of Literature
28 april 2011 · 30 min
While the Bookworm and Harvard literary theorist Marjorie
Garber disagree about nearly everything, theirs is one of the most diverting literary debates you'll likely hear. -
Manuel Munoz: What You See in the Dark
21 april 2011 · 30 min
What You See in the Dark (Algonquin) Lees meer
Manuel Muñoz imagines a crime of passion set in the Central Valley, which he deviously juxtaposes with the mayhem of Hitchcock's Psycho.
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David Lipsky and Rick Moody: David Foster Wallace's 'The Pale King'
14 april 2011 · 30 min
When David Foster Wallace died, he left behind drafts of a rich and complex novel. Writers Rick Moody and David Lipsky discuss Wallace's achievement, The Pale King...
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Michelle Latiolais: Widow
7 april 2011 · 30 min
Widow: Stories (Bellevue Literary Press)
Michelle Latiolais wrote some of these stories before the death of her husband, some later. Her emotional register changed markedly after his death... -
Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories
31 maart 2011 · 30 min
The New Yorker Stories (Scribner)
This collection, which spans the years 1974-2006, contains all of the Anne Beattie stories published in the New Yorker – from the very first one, accepted after 17 rejections.... -
Carlos Fuentes: Destiny and Desire, Part II
24 maart 2011 · 30 min
A second program with Carlos Fuentes, this one about culture and politics: Will narco-politics defeat government? Will a "New Deal" be negotiated to help the ni-nis? (Part I of this two-part conversation airs on March 17.)
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Carlos Fuentes: Destiny and Desire, Part I
17 maart 2011 · 30 min
Destiny and Desire (Random House) Lees meer
The great Mexican writer modestly confides that yes, he has completed a new novel but it's really the same story, just with new characters... (Part I of this two-part conversation airs on March 24.)
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Ralph Sassone: The Intimates
10 maart 2011 · 30 min
The Intimates (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Ralph Sassone, a first novelist, on the vicissitudes of — what else — the first novel. -
T.C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done
24 februari 2011 · 30 min
When the Killing's Done (Viking)
T.C. Boyle's newest novel contains elements of sea-adventure story and eco-thriller. Bringing together the themes of his life's work, he explores the interstices of the green-movement and the animal rights community... Lees meer -
Mark Richard: House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home
17 februari 2011 · 30 min
House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Busy writing for film and television, for his first book in over a decade, Mark Richard provides a decidedly unconventional autobiography, a spiritual journey through some of the most unusual underworlds the soul can encounter... Lees meer -
Tatjana Soli: The Lotus Eaters
10 februari 2011 · 30 min
The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin's Griffen) Lees meer
Ten years ago when Tatjana Soli began to write her novel about female journalists in Viet Nam, she was warned that it might not sell. Instead, this prophetic tale about America's foreign wars was chosen one of the most important books of last year...
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Joseph McElroy: Night Soul and Other Stories
3 februari 2011 · 30 min
Night Soul and Other Stories (Dalkey Archive Press)
Joseph McElroy is well regarded as one of the most demanding living American writers. His work is usually innovative and difficult. But in this collection of short stories, his first, stories of tenderness, often about care for children, predominate. Lees meer -
Isabel Allende: Paula
27 januari 2011 · 30 min
How can writing provide consolation? Writer Isabel Allende talks about her daughter's death and the events and feelings that led to the publication of this memoir.
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T.C. Boyle on the environment
26 januari 2011 · 15 min
The novels of T.C. Boyle are well known for addressing complex concerns about the environment and endangered species. In this brief interview, we prepare for the February publication of Boyle's most exciting environmental novel, When the Killing's Done. Lees meer
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David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary
20 januari 2011 · 30 min
The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
David Levithan has written a dictionary for lovers. The entries in it could apply to any romantic relationship, and yet, as you will hear in this conversation, the specificity of the entries gives the characters unanticipated depth.
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David Vann: Caribou Island
13 januari 2011 · 30 min
Caribu Island (Harper Collins) Lees meer
David Vann builds his first novel out of dire materials: his father took his own life, and his stepmother's parents died in a murder/suicide...
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Salman Rushdie: Luka and the Fire of Life
6 januari 2011 · 30 min
Luka and the Fire of Life (Random House) Lees meer
Once again, Salman Rushdie writes a fable, this time for his second son, who has had the time to take in Haroun and the Sea of Stories and feel envy for his brother to whom that book was dedicated...
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Mary Ruefle: Selected Poems
30 december 2010 · 30 min
Selected Poems (Wave Books)
When you hear Mary Ruefle reading her poems, you will quickly become entranced by their accessibility: they are funny and heartbreaking—simultaneously... -
Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
16 december 2010 · 30 min
Lord of Misrule (McPherson) Lees meer
Jaimy Gordon is a recently-discovered American novelist with an original voice and vision. Her National Book Award-winning novel, Lord of Misrule, is set at Indian Mound Downs, a rinky-dink racetrack in Wheeling, West Virginia, a place where "scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain" dream of better luck someday....
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Nicole Krauss: Great House
9 december 2010 · 30 min
Great House (Norton) Lees meer
Nicole Krauss is more sensitive to emotional textures and to characters than she is to conventional plot. Here, she speaks about how the careful maneuverings of feelings and the details that provoke feeling help to generate a structure for her new novel.
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Leslie Marmon Silko: The Turquoise Ledge
2 december 2010 · 30 min
The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir ( Viking) Lees meer
The Sonoran desert, its creatures and features, its ants and plants, becomes the classroom for that most trans-human of lessons. Poet, novelist and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko provides a memoir of her education outdoors.
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Breyten Breytenbach on His Literature, Anti-Apartheid Activism
25 november 2010 · 30 min
Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago); Intimate Stranger (Archipelago); Notes from the Middle World (Haymarket Books) Lees meer
As a writer, South African-born Breyten Breytenbach is an activist. As an activist he functions as something like a conscience. As a participant in the global response to apartheid, he was imprisoned for seven years, and his writing comes from the anguished nightmares of his imprisonment. His is the art of passionate dissent; his prose and poetry are in service of a more "human" human race.
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Lan Samantha Chang: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
18 november 2010 · 30 min
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost (Norton) Lees meer
This short novel emerged virtually whole — unique in the writing life of its author, Lan Samantha Chang. Perhaps this is because the book is about the writing life...
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Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room
11 november 2010 · 30 min
Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon) Lees meer
The complexities of race and community are at the center of Susan Straight's lively discussion about family, memory, migration and history...
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Mona Simpson: My Hollywood
4 november 2010 · 29 min
My Hollywood (Knopf) Lees meer
Mona Simpson's new novel corkscrews its way into the heart of a Santa Monica marriage, a marriage in which child raising duties are agreed to be divided fifty-fifty between husband and wife. Instead, they are divided fifty-fifty between wife and nanny...
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Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth
28 oktober 2010 · 30 min
Bitter in the Mouth (Random House) Lees meer
Monique Truong is an intransigent—she will not settle for anyone's desire to interpret or in any way falsity the world she knows. This time Vietnamese-born Truong sets to revealing the lies implicit in the question, "What is it like to grow up Asian in America?"
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Tom McCarthy: C
21 oktober 2010 · 30 min
Tom McCarthy's C (Knopf) is one of those post-modern novels designed to drill a hole in your head and help you inventory the contents of your mind...
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Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
14 oktober 2010 · 30 min
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon) Lees meer
Charles Yu's sweeter-spirited vision of how vintage science fiction can be used to imagine our world. Caught in a computer game, the hero seeks to escape his chronic melancholy. It just so happens that our hero's name is the same as the author's...
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Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
7 oktober 2010 · 30 min
The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown) Lees meer
Rick Moody creates a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga, basing his story on a cheapo so-bad-it's-good sci-fi classic...
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Howard Norman: What Is Left the Daughter
30 september 2010 · 30 min
What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Lees meer
Howard Norman's Wyatt Hillyer has good reason to be blocked: His parents committed
suicide within an hour of one another; his love has been unrequited; he
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Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story
23 september 2010 · 30 min
Super Sad True Love Story (Random House) Lees meer
Can Lenny and Eunice find love in a futuristic America in which computer screens instantly and constantly reveal economic status and sexual "hotness" quotients?