Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Alice Sebold
18 oktober 2007 · 30 min
The Almost Moon (Little, Brown) Lees meer
Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved and
lovable books in recent years. How did she prepare herself for the
onslaught she'll face with The Almost Moon, a book which, for all its
quality, is resolutely in the realm of unlovability. -
Ana Castillo
11 oktober 2007 · 30 min
The Guardians (Random House) Lees meer
This is a novel about borders in which borders disappear: the border
between old and young, between secular and sacred, between states—but
not the border between the U.S. and Mexico. -
William Gibson
4 oktober 2007 · 30 min
Spook Country (Putnam)
Along with the
most sophisticated future-predictions, speculations about the sociology
of cities, and adventures in virtual post-realities, William Gibson has finally
learned how to get his characters from one room to another. -
Viken Berberian
27 september 2007 · 30 min
Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster)
Viken Berberian writes in a post-modern apocalyptic vein about billionaire stock traders, terrorists and nationalists. -
Marianne Wiggins
20 september 2007 · 30 min
The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster) Lees meer
With its fascinating combination of history, biography, memoir and essay, is The Shadow Catcher a novel?
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Miranda July
13 september 2007 · 30 min
No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Prestel) Lees meer
Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know
captured the mood of a generation –- and its attention. In this first
book of stories, we find the same fear of paralysis, the same
narcotized, sleepwalker affect. Why does Miranda July, a tireless
whirlwind, identify with these listless characters? -
Nathan Englander
6 september 2007 · 30 min
The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf)
Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos
to stand for all kinds of disappearance. Here, we focus on yet another:
his own. -
Naeem Murr
30 augustus 2007 · 30 min
The Perfect Man (Random House) Lees meer
Naeem Murr's work has been described as perverse—but he insists that
this perversity seems ordinary to him. -
Michael Ondaatje: Divisadero
23 augustus 2007 · 30 min
Michael Ondaatje's novels come together through obsession and intuition. He works in the dark, not knowing where he is
heading, juxtaposing disparate materials, noticing echoes and
recurrences. -
Helena Maria Viramontes
16 augustus 2007 · 30 min
Their Dogs Came with Them (Atria) Lees meer
Helena Maria Viramontes has written about L.A.-based Latino culture before -- but who could have expected this epic work about a neighborhood that is divided by a
freeway, cut off and lost in Los Angeles. Viramontes explores the explosive insights that gave her the ability to grow as a novelist. -
Alice Sebold
9 augustus 2007 · 15 min
The Almost Moon (Little Brown)
Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) gives a sneak preview of her new novel, coming out this fall... -
Kurt Vonnegut
9 augustus 2007 · 30 min
A Man without a Country (7 Stories) Lees meer
The late Kurt Vonnegut has
been astonishing us sincethe 1960's. Here, in the rebroadcast of a 2006 interview, he speaks as a socialist
disappointed by human behavior, our country and our times. He "wants to
go home. (This interview will be not be heard on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by our semi-annual subscription drive.) -
Richard Flanagan
2 augustus 2007 · 30 min
The Unknown Terrorist (Grove) Lees meer
Richard Flanagan felt that his last novel, Gould's Book of Fish,
widely acclaimed a masterpiece, had burnt him out. Here, he discusses
the things he did to reenergize. -
Jim Crace
26 juli 2007 · 30 min
The Pesthouse (Doubleday) Lees meer
Jim Crace
makes lies masquerade as truth in this post-apocalyptic tale of
toxified America. -
Jonathan Lethem
19 juli 2007 · 30 min
You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday) Lees meer
The pleasures of the lightweight and the free-spirited.
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Kiran Desai
12 juli 2007 · 30 min
The Inheritance of Loss (Grove) Lees meer
Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai says she prefers "messiness" to perfection--it's more human, and it fits her subject better.
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Mark Slouka: The Visible World
5 juli 2007 · 30 min
Can a novelist uncover a secret?
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John Ashbery and Ron Padgett on the works of Pierre Reverdy
28 juni 2007 · 30 min
Haunted House (Ashbery); Prose Poems
(Padgett) (both from Black Square Editions) Lees meerThe haunted, lonely prose-poetry of Pierre Reverdy has attracted many translators. Two of America's most extraordinary poets read and discuss their translations...
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Lydia Davis
21 juni 2007 · 30 min
Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Lydia Davis writes elegant prose pieces in which
basic confusions are described with authority and clarity. -
Joanna Scott
14 juni 2007 · 30 min
Everybody Loves Somebody (Back Bay Books)
Joanna Scott claims her collection of stories is a history of love, from World War I to the present. -
Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
7 juni 2007 · 30 min
Oates's most autobiographical novel and the culmination of her career-long themes and obsessions.
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Christine Schutt
31 mei 2007 · 30 min
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer (Harcourt) Lees meer
Prose impressionist Christine Schutt describes the painstaking intensity that allows her to perfect her cadences and the precision of her imagery. Her stories are built up draft upon draft, variation upon variation, until Schutt achieves a density that is both poetic and conclusive.
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John Banville (as Benjamin Black): Christine Falls
24 mei 2007 · 30 min
Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville has written the first in a series of thrillers, and he's even taken on an alias or, at least, a nom de plume.
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John Ashbery
17 mei 2007 · 30 min
A Worldly Country (Ecco) Lees meer
In this landmark conversation, John Ashbery talks about his fascination with nonsense and fantasy, beginning with Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Those books involve incomprehension, parody and an extreme use of non sequitur--qualities that for Ashbery define the way we live now.
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Brian Selznick
10 mei 2007 · 30 min
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) Lees meer
The design and composition of this five hundred page picture book took Brian Selznick many years' work. Here, we talk about the influence of movies, especially French movies, especially the work of pioneer Georges Méliès. The talk about Méliès leads us to the spiritual mentors that haunt Selznick's vivid imagination.
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Howard Norman
3 mei 2007 · 30 min
Devotion (Houghton Mifflin) Lees meer
Betrayal and forgiveness are subjects here. Howard Norman's signature melancholy pervades this exploration of romance, and he shows us how even people who are perfect for one another have a need to betray and forgive--but not forget, never forget.
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C.K. Williams
26 april 2007 · 30 min
Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
C.K. Williams' Collected Poems covers a lifetime's
concern with ethics and personal morality. As his work proceeds, he
develops a quality of consciousness and empathy that some would
describe as a soul. In this conversation, this accessible and
plainspoken poet plumbs the depths, as we trace his concerns from poem
to poem. -
Vikram Chandra
19 april 2007 · 30 min
Sacred Games (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Gangsters, detectives, Bollywood movie stars--Chandra mobilizes the machinery of a thriller in order to reveal Bombay at its most various. Fascinating then, to hear him describe his novel as a mandala of perceptions in which characters reflect the worlds they move through, the plot enacting the clash between different beliefs about reality.
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Norman Mailer, Part II
12 april 2007 · 30 min
The Castle in the Forest (Random House) Lees meer
In the second of this two-part conversation about the bureaucratic, dim-witted culture that characterized the German provinces of Hitler's childhood, Mailer reveals that his narrator, an assistant to the devil, is himself a bureaucrat. Bureaucracy becomes the model for the world of this novel, down to the smallest detail—the beehives kept by Hitler's father. Mailer waxes hilarious about the sexual behavior of bees.
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Norman Mailer, Part I
5 april 2007 · 30 min
The Castle in the Forest (Random House) Lees meer
Now in his eighties, Norman Mailer has forsaken the violence and declarative sentences of his signature style for the gradual somber analytics of a style like that of Thomas Mann. In this first of a two-part interview, we discuss this unexpected change and his new novel's subject: the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
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Robert Stone
29 maart 2007 · 30 min
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Ecco) Lees meer
Robert Stone has written novels that are said to be the best descriptions of the American 1960's. In this memoir, he travels back to revisit those troubled times...
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Colum McCann
22 maart 2007 · 30 min
Zoli (Random House)
The Romani poet, Zoli, is the latest heroine in Colum McCann's ongoing quest to understand the function of art. -
Martin Amis: House of Meetings
15 maart 2007 · 30 min
House of Meetings (Knopf) Lees meer
Martin Amis has written a Russian novel--not just a Russian novel but a novel about the Gulags.
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Vendela Vida
8 maart 2007 · 30 min
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Ecco) Lees meer
The possibility that there are those who choose to escape or evade their identities enters our exploration of Vendela Vida's quest-for-identity novel.
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Gore Vidal
1 maart 2007 · 30 min
Point to Point Navigation (Doubleday) Lees meer
Using his recent memoir as springboard, Gore Vidal nimbly leaps from the history of prose narrative to the contemporary decline of culture in America.
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Isabel Allende: Ines of My Soul
22 februari 2007 · 30 min
Isabel Allende uncloaks Inés, a shrouded figure from the chronicles of Chilean history. She was a conquistadora, a conspirator--but also a healer.
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Alice McDermott: After This
15 februari 2007 · 30 min
Alice McDermott is a writer who believes in loading each facet of her work with resonance and significance, while composing an accessible, highly readable narrative.
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Brian Evenson
8 februari 2007 · 30 min
The Open Curtain (Coffee House) Lees meer
The mystery at the heart of The Open Curtain derives from a violent, concealed episode in Morman history.
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Dave Eggers
1 februari 2007 · 30 min
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (McSweeney's) Lees meer
Autobiography, epic, documentary, novel--Dave Eggers explores the many facets of his
protean new work. -
Mary Gordon
25 januari 2007 · 30 min
The Stories of Mary Gordon (Pantheon) Lees meer
Mary Gordon
makes distinctions. She writes only about characters who interest her,
people she would be willing to meet and spend time with. -
Richard Ford
18 januari 2007 · 30 min
The Lay of the Land (Knopf) is Richard Ford's third novel about Frank Bascomb, his sportswriter-turned-realtor.
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Anne Carson
11 januari 2007 · 30 min
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books) Lees meer
Anne Carson's translations of four plays by Euripides are dynamic, intense and were written to be performed.
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Philip Levine
4 januari 2007 · 30 min
Breath (Knopf) Lees meer
Philip Levine reminisces about his childhood--about how a working class boy came to poetry.
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Greil Marcus
28 december 2006 · 30 min
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
In this conversation about how America disappoints its prophets and betrays its promises, it's surprising to hear that Greil Marcus continues to maintain faith in the American dream and America's future. Whether the subject is "Twin Peak's" reflection of the Salem witch trials or the band Pere Ubu's rattle-trap prophecies, Marcus' vision is idealistic, even optimistic.
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Jennifer Egan: The Keep
21 december 2006 · 30 min
Jennifer Egan researched classic Gothic fiction to develop a style that would deepen the terrors at the core of her new novel...
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Chris Adrian: The Children's Hospital
7 december 2006 · 30 min
Author Chris Adrian, a pediatrician and theologian, imagines a future in which a
children's hospital becomes an ark that survives the flood at the end
of the world... -
Edward P. Jones
30 november 2006 · 30 min
All Aunt Hagar's Children (Amistad) Lees meer
Edward P. Jones' magnificent new book of stories takes up characters from his earlier collection, Lost in the City. Minor, background characters become central; children unlearn the lessons of their parents; time somersaults; and legends become truth...
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Geoff Dyer: The Ongoing Moment
23 november 2006 · 30 min
Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment presents a series of improvisations and responses to photography, particular photographs and ideas about photography...
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Clifford Chase
16 november 2006 · 30 min
Winkie (Grove) Lees meer
After all this fiddle about souls and truth, finally a nice straightforward novel about a teddy bear who comes to life and is accused of terrorism. Chase talks about memory and childhood, as we explore the role toys play as they pass from generation to generation, and the way America was transformed as it moved from the racism of the fifties to the terrorism of today.
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Zadie Smith
9 november 2006 · 30 min
On Beauty (Penguin) Lees meer
Obliquely about On Beauty, this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is and how it represents a particular culture, and about what a culture is and how it can create the illusion of identity. The search for identity, Smith maintains, is a delusion. The search for beauty and truth depends upon destroying the lie of identity