Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza
1 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive)
This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what’s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor, Álvaro Uribe, and Cristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers. Lees meer -
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
24 september 2009 · 30 min
Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics) Lees meer
Stephen Sondheim is right — his new musical, Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwright John Weidman, discuss the many revisions of the musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an American classic...
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Clancy Martin
17 september 2009 · 30 min
How to Sell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turns
out — surprise! — to be a philosophical novel about the problems of
appearance and reality... -
Colum McCann
10 september 2009 · 30 min
Let the Great World Spin (Random House) Lees meer
Darkened by intimations of 9/11, Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novel
brings together the lives of strangers who witness a high-wire artist
dancing between the two World Trade Center towers... -
Reif Larsen
3 september 2009 · 30 min
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Penguin Press) Lees meer
Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...
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Glen David Gold
27 augustus 2009 · 30 min
Sunnyside (Knopf)
What a charming raconteur Glen David Gold is, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War I... -
Eduardo Galeano: Mirrors
20 augustus 2009 · 30 min
Eduardo Galeano has written a history of the world in brief chapters, each one devoted to an iconic incident...
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Jim Krusoe
6 augustus 2009 · 30 min
Erased (Tin House Books) Lees meer
In this wild and woolly conversation, Jim Krusoe reveals that
his zany, unpredictable, hilarity-inspiring novels are, well,
descriptions of the human condition (at least as how he sees it). -
Anne Waldman
30 juli 2009 · 30 min
Manatee /Humanity (Penguin Poets) Lees meer
Anne Waldman guides us through this book-length poetry-and-prose
meditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremony
designed to instill a deeper sense of compassion.... -
John Wray
23 juli 2009 · 30 min
Lowboy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
John Wray's novel about a schizophrenic boy's quest for sex
and/or love flirts violently with the thriller form... -
Wells Tower
16 juli 2009 · 30 min
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Wells Tower is the most talked-about new story writer to emerge on the
literary scene. This conversation focuses on the weird details he uses
to illuminate a mostly conventional narrative arc... -
Matthea Harvey
9 juli 2009 · 30 min
Modern Life (Graywolf Press) Lees meer
Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides, Matthea Harvey's
poems careen into the unknown... -
Brad Gooch: Flannery
2 juli 2009 · 30 min
While we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing, biographer Brad Gooch describes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's inner life.
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Matthew Dickman
25 juni 2009 · 30 min
All-American Poem (American Poetry Review)
Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poetry... -
Geoff Dyer: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
18 juni 2009 · 30 min
Geoff Dyer on the secrets that structure his new novel (which might, on the surface, seem like two novellas)....
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Mary Gaitskill
11 juni 2009 · 30 min
Don’t Cry (Pantheon)
The extraordinary levels of empathy and sadness in Mary Gaitskill’s new stories provide the basis for this intense discussion of the emotional subtexts of her fiction. -
An Oulipo Mini-Anthology
4 juni 2009 · 30 min
Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier
When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on. Lees meer -
Jacques Roubaud
28 mei 2009 · 30 min
The Loop (Dalkey Archive) Lees meer
Jacques Roubaud describes the mesh of image and memory that makes up his fascinating, newly translated, unclassifiable book.
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John Ashbery
21 mei 2009 · 30 min
...on his translation of Pierre Martory's The Landscapist (The Sheep Meadow Press) Lees meer
As John Ashbery remembers his early years in Paris, he reflects on French poetry and about the very special case of his long-time friend, Pierre Martory.
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Gary Indiana: The Shanghai Gesture
14 mei 2009 · 30 min
Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films, documents of "friendly" imperialism from the twenties to the forties), Gary Indiana concocts the nightmare present of The Shanghai Gesture..
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Elizabeth Alexander
7 mei 2009 · 30 min
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration (Graywolf); American Sublime (Graywolf) Lees meer
When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama's inaugural
poem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United States
there had been only three previous inaugural poets... -
Yusef Komunyakaa
30 april 2009 · 29 min
Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa's
voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and war
simultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in this
poet's vision of life. Lees meer -
Joanna Scott
23 april 2009 · 30 min
Follow Me (Little, Brown)
It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this novel
twists and turns, changes direction and may even be inhabited by river
fairies... -
Abdellah Taia
16 april 2009 · 30 min
Salvation Army (Semiotext(e)) Lees meer
In Abdellah Taïa's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded by
silence. All sorts of behaviors are tolerated if they are not spoken of, an intolerable circumstance for a writer... -
T.C. Boyle
9 april 2009 · 30 min
The Women (Viking)
This richly layered conversation with T.C. Boyle centers on the subjects of art and arrogance. The Women
is a biographical novel, a fiction derived from the life of Frank Lloyd
Wright, focused particularly on Wright's up-and-down experiences with
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A Whitman Tribute
2 april 2009 · 30 min
Eamon Grennan: Matter of Fact (Graywolf)
Major Jackson: Hoops (Norton)
Pattiann Rogers: Wayfare (Penguin) Lees meerThree poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read from Leaves of Grass,
describe Whitman's influence on their work, read their own poems, and,
in general, paint a raucous, friendly, informal portrait of the Good
Gray Poet — America's greatest. -
Robin Romm
26 maart 2009 · 30 min
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks (Scribner) Lees meer
Fact and fiction. Robin Romm has written a book of short stories and now a memoir arising from one central event: her mother’s gradual death by cancer...
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Frank Bidart, Part II
19 maart 2009 · 30 min
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part I of this interview aired March 12.)
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Frank Bidart, Part I
12 maart 2009 · 30 min
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” (Part II of this interview airs on March 19.)
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John Haskell
5 maart 2009 · 30 min
Out of My Skin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
An existential novel (think Camus’ The Stranger) LA-style. When
a celebrity impersonator trains the hero in the art of impersonation, identity confusion ensues... -
Rae Armantrout
26 februari 2009 · 30 min
Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered
poets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetry
derived from theory. Now, her work is found in the most widely read
magazines that publish poetry... Lees meer -
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
19 februari 2009 · 30 min
The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive) Lees meer
Micheline Marcom's works squeeze themselves between uncomfortable alternatives: Is her new novel, The Mirror in the Well, erotic or pornographic?
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Sparks: The Art of the Popular Song
12 februari 2009 · 30 min
Kimono My House (Island Def Jam); Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)
After years of yearning, Bookworm talks with his favorite rock band about the art of writing pop songs. Join us in this celebration of their 21st album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep. Lees meer -
Azar Nafisi
5 februari 2009 · 30 min
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House)
Azar Nafisi is one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writing Reading Lolita in Tehran,
her memoir about reading forbidden books in a repressive culture, she
has taken on a new source of repression—the family. Lees meer -
Toni Morrison, Part II
29 januari 2009 · 30 min
A Mercy (Knopf)
In this second half of our two-part interview with Toni Morrison, the conversation continues in an attempt to discover the way a novel is built. -
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
15 januari 2009 · 30 min
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Harcourt)
What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie we
remember fearing in childhood? Or is she, as she believes, a barely-out-of-college young woman on the threshold of life? -
Amitav Ghosh
8 januari 2009 · 30 min
Sea of Poppies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
With Sea of Poppies, a trilogy begins! Few know that the opium that fueled the Opium Wars was grown and processed in India...
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Marilynne Robinson, Part II
25 december 2008 · 30 min
Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers and
their families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, Jack
Boughton, a man who would have been called a ne'er-do-well when words
like ne'er-do-well were common... Lees meer -
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
18 december 2008 · 30 min
Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Marilynne Robinson had not published a novel in twenty years when she wrote Gilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. How peculiar, interesting and lovely that she should follow it so quickly with Home... -
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
11 december 2008 · 30 min
Jerk, a play, from a story by Dennis Cooper, directed by Gisèle Vienne
Our series closes with American writer Dennis Cooper, who lives
and writes in Paris. His work is believed to continue the French
lineage of poète maudits (outlaw poets) a tradition that includes
Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Sade. Lees meer -
Jonathan Carroll
4 december 2008 · 30 min
The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Although he would never want us to say so, Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for the supernaturally inclined. -
David Foster Wallace
26 november 2008 · 30 min
Web exclusive: The terrible and sad impact of David Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the KCRW studios, fresh from the publication of his breakthrough novel, Infinite Jest. He was brilliant and charming—and his death is an enormous loss to American literature. Lees meer
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Sarah Vowell
20 november 2008 · 30 min
The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead)
What brought the indomitable Sarah Vowell to write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes of The Brady Bunch and Happy Days, to be sure, but also... -
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
13 november 2008 · 30 min
Grégoire Bouillier The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin)
Olivier Cadiot Colonel Zoo ( Green Integer)
Marc Cholodenko Mordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive)
Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three French
novelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice,
intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new French
novel. Lees meerNote: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.
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Diane Johnson
6 november 2008 · 30 min
Lulu in Marrakech (Dutton)
Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in a
comic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the author
stands, but not with Diane Johnson... -
Francine Prose: Goldengrove
30 oktober 2008 · 30 min
Francine Prose is full of surprises in speaking of her newest
novel, Goldengrove It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister has
drowned.... -
James Wood
23 oktober 2008 · 30 min
How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This conversation is characterized by indirection. Critic James Wood seems to be responding to accusations made against him by other reviewers... -
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part III
16 oktober 2008 · 30 min
Pierre Alféri: Oxo (Burning Deck) and Natural Gaits ( Sun & Moon) Lees meer
Emmanuel Carrère
Class Trip & The Mustache (Picador) and The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception (Picador)
In this episode of our ongoing series, the American Bookworm leaves
philosophy and politics and makes his way to his true loves: poetry and
fiction...Note: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.
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Art Spiegelman
9 oktober 2008 · 30 min
Breakdowns (Pantheon)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! is the subtitle of this new book, and we talk about the kind of young %@&*! Art Spiegelman was... -
Horacio Castellanos Moya
2 oktober 2008 · 30 min
Senselessness, translated by Katherine Silver (New Directions)
Castellanos Moya's first novel to be translated into English is a jet black tragic-comedy...