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Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
16 september 2010 · 30 min
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books) Lees meer
Maile Meloy’s stories go shooting off in such surprising and unpredictable directions that a reader might think, "every which way is the only way she wants it..."
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Vendela Vida: The Lovers
9 september 2010 · 30 min
The Lovers (Harper Collins/ Ecco) Lees meer
Vendela Vida has crafted another mysterious and beautiful novel about a woman's identity. This woman, Yvonne, is middle-aged, the oldest woman whose tightly-knit personality Vida has unraveled so far.
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Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks
2 september 2010 · 30 min
First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song lyrics..
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Craig Nova: The Informer
26 augustus 2010 · 30 min
The Informer (Shaye Areheart Books) Lees meer
Craig Nova has written a frightening novel about corruption in pre-Nazi Berlin. Especially frightening is Nova's perception that those times are so similar to ours...
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Martha McPhee: Dear Money
19 augustus 2010 · 30 min
Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Lees meer
In Martha McPhee's comic novel, a wizard of Wall Street promises he can change a novelist from a desperate bohemian into a "Master of the Universe," in a brief eighteen months. In this conversation, we explore the mis-marriage of aesthetics and greed...
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David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
12 augustus 2010 · 43 min
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview with David Mitchell Lees meer
Glowing front-page reviews and profiles proclaim David Mitchell to be "the real thing" and his new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House), a masterpiece.
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D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic
5 augustus 2010 · 30 min
Chronic (Graywolf) Lees meer
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers an impressive $100,000 prize to a poet entering the major phase of his/her career. We speak to this year's winner, D.A. Powell, and the chair judge, Linda Gregerson, to find out about poetry awards and how they are determined...
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Jane Smiley: Private Life
29 juli 2010 · 30 min
Private Life (Knopf) Lees meer
Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of
a genius whose work never catches on, and the frustration of a wife whose husband never achieves his potential—and who barely discerns her own -
Peter Carey
22 juli 2010 · 30 min
Parrot & Olivier in America (Knopf) Lees meer
Australian-born Peter Carey celebrates his years in America with a larking, picaresque novel based on Toqueville's Democracy in America...
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Aimee Bender
15 juli 2010 · 30 min
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday) Lees meer
A little girl is able to taste sadness in her food. Her brother, who has become emotionally withdrawn, is able to turn himself into inanimate objects. Aimee Bender shows how by using the techniques of fairy tales, legends and magic realism, her novels and stories about family dysfunction are transformed into narratives about growth and change.
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Favorite Books: John Waters and Elif Batuman
8 juli 2010 · 30 min
Role Models (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and The Possessed (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
John Waters’ gives a passionate description of his favorite books, and for good measure, Elif Batuman gives a lively count-down of her favorite Russian novels.
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Isabel Allende: Island Beneath the Sea
1 juli 2010 · 30 min
Isabel Allende's historical novel about slavery and the Haitian revolution becomes a springboard for a conversation about global injustice and the re-emergence of slavery.
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Zachary Mason
24 juni 2010 · 30 min
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Higher mathematics and logic problems have long intrigued fiction writers, including Zachary Mason. Both Lewis Carroll (the Alice books) and Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) had a profound love of logic and chess..
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint
17 juni 2010 · 30 min
Self-Portrait Abroad (Dalkey Archive); Running Away (Dalkey Archive) Lees meer
French fiction had become austere and theoretical until Jean-Philippe Toussaint took it in the direction of the wacky, even goony. His earlier stories focused on characters retreating from contemporary life, but that has given way to work with a light, lyrical approach...
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Yann Martel
10 juni 2010 · 30 min
Beatrice & Virgil (Spiegel & Grau) Lees meer
After recognizing that most holocaust literature is centered on personal testimony, Yann Martel decided to create an allegory about the holocaust — a different approach to this traumatic material...
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David Shields and Ander Monson on the New Prose
3 juni 2010 · 30 min
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf Press) Lees meer
New web technologies (and the ever-increasing availability of information) have made possible a new kind of writing. This prose uses fact and randomness rather than story and structure. Two active practitioners wave the banner for the new.
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Ian McEwan
27 mei 2010 · 30 min
Solar (Doubleday) Lees meer
Along the way in our conversation about bad morals and good intentions, Ian McEwan dabbles in the background subjects of his new novel...
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Anne Carson
20 mei 2010 · 30 min
Nox (New Directions) Lees meer
Anne Carson's brother ran away, and she never saw him again. After learning of his death some twenty years later, she assembled Nox as a form of grieving....
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Sam Lipsyte: The Ask
13 mei 2010 · 30 min
In the midst of all his scandalous anger and shenanigans, it's the shape of a great sentence that keeps Sam Lipsyte's interest in writing fiction at fever pitch.
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Chang-rae Lee: The Surrendered
6 mei 2010 · 30 min
The Surrendered (Riverhead) Lees meer
Renowned for his novels about repressed, withdrawn characters, Chang-rae Lee new novel explores new ground....
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John D'Agata: About a Mountain
29 april 2010 · 30 min
In a culture whose major activities include consumption and the production of waste, John D'Agata ponders the adjacency of Las Vegas and a proposed nuclear waste dumping ground...
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Elif Batuman: The Possessed
22 april 2010 · 30 min
Elif Batuman never intended to study literature, learn Russian,or learn to speak Uzbek. That's no life for a grown up!. And yet she fell passionately in love with literature...
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John Ashbery
15 april 2010 · 30 min
Planisphere (Ecco) Lees meer
John Ashbery has made a dumbfounding statement: he is afraid that sometimes "the language gets in the way of the music of a poem." This is dumbfounding because what is there in poetry other than language?
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Adam Haslett
8 april 2010 · 30 min
Union Atlantic (Doubleday)
While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the intimacies, even the perversities, of eccentric individuals... -
Joshua Ferris
1 april 2010 · 29 min
The Unnamed (Little, Brown) Lees meer
Josh Ferris, who won a huge audience with his hilarious office novel, Then We Came to the End, has done an about-face — he's left the office....
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Barbara Epler
25 maart 2010 · 30 min
New Directions, the press that began by publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Tennessee Williams and which today gives us Roberto Bolaño, W. G. Sebald and Anne Carson, deserves celebration. Editor in Chief Barbara Epler takes us on a guided tour of American’s pre-eminent literary publisher... Lees meer
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John McPhee
18 maart 2010 · 30 min
Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
John McPhee, our nation’s premier essayist—the man who helped raise creative non-fiction to an art form—speaks about the intricacy of his writing process... -
Patti Smith, Part II
11 maart 2010 · 30 min
Just Kids (Ecco) Lees meer
In the second of this two-part interview we hear about Patti Smith as a bookworm. You probably know about her love for Rimbaud, but did you know she worships the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov and his great novel, The Master and Margarita? A voracious reader, Smith has written three unpublished novels and has created hundreds of visual pieces. She speaks of her unbounded appetite for creativity.
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Patti Smith, Part I
4 maart 2010 · 30 min
Just Kids (Ecco) Lees meer
Poverty and insanity are terrible things—but then there is bohemian poverty and insanity, and these are infused with the romance of becoming an artist. In the first of this two-part interview, Patti Smith speaks of her youth in New York, when she and Robert Mapplethorpe sought to manifest their artistic ambitions...
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Javier Marias, Part II
25 februari 2010 · 30 min
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)
Our conversation with Javier Marías continues. What if ten minutes of espionage took a hundred pages to fully describe? Here we explore time and consciousness in what will possibly be the greatest trilogy of our new century. Lees meer -
Javier Marias, Part I
18 februari 2010 · 30 min
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)
What if Henry James — the patron saint of convolution — could be resurrected? What if he wrote a novel of espionage so complex it became a trilogy? Spanish writer Javier Marías has stepped in and taken on the epic task... Lees meer -
Rita Dove
11 februari 2010 · 30 min
Sonata Mulattica (Norton) Lees meer
Beethoven once dedicated a sonata to a half-African musician—then revoked the dedication. Why? In her book-length poem, Rita Dove attempts an imaginative historical reconstruction of what happened.
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Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
4 februari 2010 · 30 min
The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams ComicArts) Lees meer
TOON Books and Raw Books co-editors Spiegelman and Mouly tunneled through archives and private collections to create this perfect anthology of classic children's comics, the spunky kids and sassy animals you may envision at the edges of your memory. Walk down memory's backs streets with us when we explore the golden age of someone else's childhood.
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Jonathan Lethem
28 januari 2010 · 30 min
Chronic City (Doubleday) Lees meer
Jonathan Lethem began his career with Philip K. Dick-inspired science fiction, then he turned to writing the more realistic books that brought him to prominence. Here, we discuss the fusion of the two...
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Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part II
21 januari 2010 · 30 min
Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio) Lees meer
When Flats and Quake were published, the sixties were ending, and these novels can be said to chronicle the death of a dream. (Part I airs January 14)
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Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part I
14 januari 2010 · 30 min
Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio) Lees meer
In this first of two interviews, Wurlitzer takes us time-traveling back to the late 1960's when Nog was published and his first screen plays (Two Lane Blacktop, Glen and Randa)
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Barbara Kingsolver
7 januari 2010 · 30 min
The Lacuna (Harper) Lees meer
What do Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have to do with an invented author of Mayan and Incan historical romances?
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Wallace Shawn: Essays & Grasses of a Thousand Colors
31 december 2009 · 30 min
Wallace Shawn’s newest play intermingles fact and fantasy in such a bizarre and original way that one would have to see (or even read) the play two or three times to get things (relatively) straight. Shawn discusses innovative theater in relation to his political beliefs as expressed in his new collection of essays. Lees meer
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Orhan Pamuk, Part II
24 december 2009 · 30 min
The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)
The Nobel Prize helped to set the fiction of Orhan Pamuk (and Turkish literature in general) in a contemporary global frame. Our conversation centers on the problem of national versus global literatures... -
Orhan Pamuk, Part I
17 december 2009 · 30 min
The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)
Infidelity and adultery are two of the great subjects of the novel tradition — think of Anna Karenina or Madam Bovary. In this conversation, Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk discusses his own stunning contribution to this tradition. Lees meer -
A.S. Byatt
10 december 2009 · 30 min
The Children's Book (Knopf)
As the vast array of subjects presented in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book parades past — puppetry, women's rights, Fabianism, Peter Pan, education, children's fiction, the history of pottery glazes — one can't help but wonder: how does it all hold together? Lees meer -
Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel
3 december 2009 · 30 min
Though he’s had five books published, Tao Lin is not yet thirty. Yet, for all his industriousness, he expresses the apathy and emptiness felt by many of his generation.
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Brenda Hillman
26 november 2009 · 30 min
Practical Water ( Wesleyan) Lees meer
Brenda Hillman's work has been described as difficult and experimental, but we beg to disagree. Here, we hear some of her most accessible poems; discuss her work with Code Pink, a feminist activist group; and try to describe the way to read a so-called "difficult" poem.
The live broadcast of this interview will be pre-empted by special holiday programming, but will be available in the KCRW archives.
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Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood
19 november 2009 · 30 min
Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel takes place simultaneously with Oryx and Crake — her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
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James Galvin
12 november 2009 · 30 min
As Is (Copper Canyon)
One of our most tender poets (tough but tender), James Galvin, investigates his growing tendency toward poems that express his bitterness— toward politics, environmental despoilment, big business. Still he affirms, in poems that breathe with sweet relief, the ongoing possibility of love. Lees meer -
Nicholson Baker
5 november 2009 · 29 min
The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster)
The polymath Nicholson Baker has been able to create a version of himself in the figure of accomplished poet Paul Chowder... -
Nick Laird
29 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Glover's Mistake (Viking) Lees meer
In this novel of love, manipulation and deception, Nick Laird attempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures a book so that readers come to understand things the characters remain blind to.
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Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs
22 oktober 2009 · 30 min
A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)
Lorrie Moore has written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work, she has published a longer novel and survived to tell the tale... -
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
15 oktober 2009 · 30 min
The Angel's Game (Doubleday)
Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers. -
Dennis Cooper
8 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Ugly Man (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Although we've followed the career of Dennis Copper from the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence—the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati.