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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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David Markson
25 september 2008 · 30 min
The Last Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard)
David Markson has invented his own "personal genre." His novels
present collaged panoramas of the travails of art and artists—the bad
reviews, the rivalries, the life-long neglect, the impoverished deaths. His juxtapositions can be comic or tragic. Lees meer -
Annie Proulx
18 september 2008 · 30 min
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner)
Annie Proulx's new collection is a stew of tall tales, romantic sagebrush sagas, and genuinely affecting stories of survival on the range. Lees meer* Language Advisory
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An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II
11 september 2008 · 30 min
Camille de Toledo: Coming of Age at the End of History (Soft Skull)
The young French critic, novelist and filmmaker Camille de Toledo tells the sad /exuberant story of young French intellectuals growing up at the end of everything. -
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
4 september 2008 · 29 min
Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris Lees meer
Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (University of Minnesota Press)
Our tour begins at Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore with a long
tradition of helping American writers in Paris. Then, it's on to François Cusset
and how French Theory found its bastion and stronghold in American
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A Celebration of the Work of Swiss Writer Robert Walser
28 augustus 2008 · 30 min
A tribute to the great (and virtually unknown) Swiss writer Robert Walser, who
influenced Kafka and inspired Hermann Hesse. Writers Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg and Wayne Koestenbaum read, discuss and worship Walser, a writer who is like a mouse
that roared—small and fragile but out-of-this-world outrageous Lees meer -
Francoise Mouly
21 augustus 2008 · 30 min
Editor of Toon Books Françoise Mouly describes the new children's books she's bringing into the world...
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Donald Ray Pollock (national)
14 augustus 2008 · 30 min
Knockemstiff (Doubleday)
Knockemstiff, Ohio, inspires Donald Ray Pollock to explore the miseries and ferocities of small-town life. -
Art Spiegelman (local)
14 augustus 2008 · 16 min
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon)
A sneak preview of the new Art Spiegelman book, which collects Art's early underground commix and includes his next autobiographical sequence... -
Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage
7 augustus 2008 · 30 min
A wonderful young novelist, Andrew Sean Greer, writes about enormous and basic truths that his characters choose to conceal...
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Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
31 juli 2008 · 30 min
In this new novel, Salman Rushdie explores Renaissance Florence and the reign of Akbar in India, in order to describe a world on the verge of discovering that all its beliefs are incorrect...
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Rudolph Wurlitzer
24 juli 2008 · 30 min
The Drop Edge of Yonder (Two Dollar Radio)
Where has Rudy Wurlitzer been for the last fifteen years? The mental traveler takes another vision quest, this time into the Old American
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Tobias Wolff
17 juli 2008 · 30 min
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf)
Tobias Wolff has re-written his famous stories many times—even
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Coral Bracho and translator Forrest Gander
10 juli 2008 · 30 min
Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions)
Coral Bracho, a major Mexican poet, writes ecstatic visionary
poetry that has been translated into English for the first time. Our
program marks another first—she has never before agreed to an
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Brian Hall
3 juli 2008 · 30 min
Fall of Frost (Viking)
Brian Hall takes on a fictional life of
our great Robert Frost, giving language to the poet's inner life. -
Keith Gessen
26 juni 2008 · 30 min
All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking)
Keith Gessen, one of the founding editors of the hip,
intellectual journal n+1, has written his first novel. It's about the
struggles of young people to break into the world of their aspirations,
in this case, the literary intelligentsia of New York City... Lees meer -
Zachary Lazar
19 juni 2008 · 30 min
Sway (Little, Brown)
Zachary Lazar's novel is about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson, Kenneth Anger and the dark side of the Sixties. In this conversation, we try to gauge how much "sympathy for the devil" the era generated—from sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll to satanic ritual murders. Lees meer -
Richard Price
12 juni 2008 · 30 min
Lush Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This high-voltage interview with Richard Price (he spiels, riffs, and shoots off sparks) gives a rare insight into the way he orchestrates the complex of simultaneous perception in his writing. He proceeds with a strong sense of dread—ready for an attack from any and every direction. Lees meer -
Isabel Allende: The Sum of Our Days
5 juni 2008 · 30 min
Isabel Allende's second memoir is written to her daughter Paula who died. We discuss storytelling as a form of memory, a way of preserving the present.
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Clayton Eshleman
29 mei 2008 · 30 min
An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (Black Widow Press)
When The Bookworm explains that reading Eshleman's intense and visceral work brings up initial feelings of disgust, Eschleman responds that his poetry is a matter of initiation and transformation. -
Bruce Weigl and Brian Turner
22 mei 2008 · 30 min
Declension in the Village of Chung Luong (Ausable Press) and Brian Turner Here, Bullet (Alice James Books)
Bruce Weigl is a poet who served in Vietnam. Brian Turner wrote poetry while serving in Iraq. Theirs is the poetry of war as written by on-site observers. Lees meer -
David Shields: The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
15 mei 2008 · 30 min
The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead (Knopf)
David Shields wrote this book to relieve his terrible fear of death. He compares this fear with his ninety-something-year-old father's vigor and confidence. Although the book is full of facts about aging and death, it has the odd effect of making you feel thrilled to be alive. Lees meer -
Jim Krusoe
8 mei 2008 · 30 min
Girl Factory (Tin House)
In Jim Krusoe's strange and funny new novel, six women are being preserved in acidophilus in the basement of a frozen yogurt shop. The innocent hero's attempts to save these kidnapped beauties are disastrous. -
Peter Carey
1 mei 2008 · 30 min
His Illegal Self (Knopf)
The excitement of Peter Carey's new novel is rendered through a
specific stylistic choice: He integrates two wildly different voices
into the sentences, creating a vibrant stereo-effect. The result is
amazing--the novel's action seems to be taking place about six inches
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Ariana Reines
24 april 2008 · 30 min
Coeur de Lion (Mal-o-mar); The Cow (Fence Books) Lees meer
This astonishing young poet—still in her twenties—is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her generation.
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Colm Tóibín: Mothers and Sons
17 april 2008 · 30 min
Colm Tóibín candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a story, sometimes an anecdote or a bit of family lore.
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Anne Enright
10 april 2008 · 30 min
The Gathering (Grove) Lees meer
In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor.
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Arnon Grunberg
3 april 2008 · 30 min
The Jewish Messiah (Penguin) Lees meer
Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg’s
novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture. -
William T. Vollmann
27 maart 2008 · 30 min
Riding toward Everywhere (Ecco)
William Vollmann decided to spend as much time as possible viewing the stars from the flatbed of a moving train. He’s a “fauxbo” not a hobo, and he movingly describes his need to find freedom by hopping a train–without any destination in mind. Lees meer -
David Rieff
20 maart 2008 · 30 min
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster)
David Rieff accompanied his mother, Susan Sontag, through the medical ordeals that led to her death. We explore the death of this great writer, a woman who resisted consolation and maintained—to her last days—an enormous appetite for life. Lees meer -
Geraldine Brooks
13 maart 2008 · 30 min
People of the Book (Viking)
The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. What does the miraculous survival of this medieval codex tell us about the survival of both culture and history? -
Lewis Hyde
6 maart 2008 · 30 min
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
How does the creative person function in a market culture? In the 25 years since The Gift was first published, this question has become increasingly more difficult to answer. -
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson
28 februari 2008 · 30 min
Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press) Lees meer
Critic David Lehman has called the New York School of Poetry "the Last Avant Garde." Poet and critic Maggie Nelson suggests it might better be considered "one of the first gay avant gardes," since its original members included Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and James Schuyler. We examine the role of women in the New York School: Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer and Eileen Myles. How did these women pave the way for today's women poets, who, like Maggie Nelson, are conscious of gender and its effects on poetry?
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Robert Hass
21 februari 2008 · 30 min
Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 (Ecco) Lees meer
If it can still be said that a poet can have a humanizing influence on his culture, Robert Hass is such a poet. Here, as we discuss the poems in his National Book Award-winning collection, the beautiful, moving humanity of Hass' voice emerges, making us wish we were better people.
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Cees Nooteboom
14 februari 2008 · 30 min
Lost Paradise (Grove) Lees meer
In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt that there are simpler, clearer, realer reasons for the angels in Lost Paradise than the over-interpreting Silverblatt wants to believe.
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Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
7 februari 2008 · 30 min
Oliver Sacks explores the brain's affinity for music by examining the extraordinary ways our brains adapt in response to musical aberrations.
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Russell Banks
31 januari 2008 · 16 min
The Reserve (Harper)
Russell Banks, one of the great living American novelists, uses the 1930's novel of passion and betrayal -- with its allied seductions, madness, and adultery -- to explore America's class system; the relationships between art, politics and wealth; and the despoiling of the American Landscape. (An abridged version of this interview will be heard live on KCRW due to our semi-annual subscription drive. It will be archived in its entirety online.) Lees meer -
Edmund White: Hotel de Dream
24 januari 2008 · 30 min
Did Stephen Crane attempt to write a gay companion piece to his Maggie: A Girl of the Streets? Literary rumor says he tried. At any rate, now Edmund White has written it for him.
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James McCourt: Now Voyagers
17 januari 2008 · 30 min
This big, hilarious and joyful book has been twenty-five years in the making. Fran Lebowitz called it "The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization set to music."
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David Plante
10 januari 2008 · 30 min
ABC (Pantheon) Lees meer
In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes leads unrelated victims to search for order. Mysteriously, the "order" they discover is alphabetical order. So many cultures begin their alphabets with ABC. Why? What revelation is concealed in the alphabet's code?
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Ann Patchett: Run
3 januari 2008 · 30 min
The family in Ann Patchett's Run unites rich with poor, black with white. The novel is a thriller—but the mystery at its heart is the mystery of spiritual grace...
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George Saunders: The Braindead Megaphone
27 december 2007 · 30 min
This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, George Saunders-style and explores the construction of short fiction from the ground up.
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Carol Muske-Dukes
20 december 2007 · 30 min
Channeling Mark Twain (Random House)
This novel revives the belief that poetry has a close connection to personal and political liberation. -
Steve Erickson: Zeroville
13 december 2007 · 30 min
Steve Erickson's breakthrough novel Zeroville is about the The Movies — not the movie business, not the wheels and deals— but The Movies themselves.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
6 december 2007 · 30 min
The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl, to air this previously unheard interview in which the great Peruvian novelist describes the effects of "El Boom" –- magic realism and its relatives -- on the literature of Latin America... Lees meer -
Millard Kaufman
29 november 2007 · 30 min
Bowl of Cherries (McSweeney's) Lees meer
Millard Kaufman has written a classic comic novel that belongs in the tradition that runs from Charles Dickens to Evelyn Waugh.
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Ron Padgett: Joe
22 november 2007 · 30 min
Joe is Ron Padgett's intimate and affectionate biography-memoir of his friend of four decades, artist-poet Joe Brainard.
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Robert Alter
15 november 2007 · 30 min
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (Norton) Lees meer
Biblical scholar Robert Alter faces a barrage of questions: What are psalms? Who wrote them? If they are prayers, why does he consider them poems?
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Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
8 november 2007 · 30 min
This wide-ranging yet intimate conversation with Junot Díaz explores many difficult subjects...
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Veronica Gonzalez
1 november 2007 · 30 min
twin time: or how death befell me (Semiotext(e)) Lees meer
The heroine of twin time is a woman whose life is surrounded by mystery. Who is her father? Where is her mother? Why did no one tell her she has a twin brother?
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Rupert Thomson
25 oktober 2007 · 30 min
Death of a Murderer (Knopf) Lees meer
A factual series of murders provides the background for this novel: the
Moor Murders that haunted the British imagination in the 1960's.