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Place and Identity (Part 3 of 10)
16 juni 2005 · 30 min
J. D. McClatchy has traveled the US visiting the homes of classic American writers. Joan Didion talks about her native California; Jonathan Lethem describes growing up in Brooklyn; and Toni Morrison describes the creation of an imaginary home, a hotel, in her most-recent novel. Lees meer
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The Creation of Identity (Part 2 of 10)
9 juni 2005 · 30 min
We hear from E. L. Doctorow and Norman Mailer, but the focus is on Russell Banks, a white, male, American writer, who started his career in a specific part of the world, the American Northeast. He has explored identity throughout his career, using it as a narrative tool. He believes that good writing transcends the mythology of identity.... Lees meer
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Escaping the Cage: Identity, Multiculturalism and Writing
2 juni 2005 · 30 min
Russell Banks, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Tom Wolfe and David Mitchell Lees meer
In the first of this 10-part series, Escaping the Cage: Identity, Multiculturalism and Writing, we sample the range of attitudes toward identity, identity politics and multiculturalism. Among the highlights: Angelou describes an emotional encounter with Tupac Shakur, Sontag rejects self-expression as a writing goal, and Paglia embraces multiculturalism while scolding academics for losing literature in a welter of special interests...
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Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman
26 mei 2005 · 29 min
American Linden (Tupelo) Lees meer
Your Time Has Come (Verse)
Poets Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss the formation of a new literary press, Wave, and then branch out into an exploration of the improbable economics of life as a poet....
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
19 mei 2005 · 29 min
The young Jonathan Safran Foer (28) offers an even younger narrator (9) whose father died in the bombing of the World Trade Center.
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Jonathan Williams
12 mei 2005 · 29 min
Jubilant Thicket: new and selected poems (Copper Canyon) Lees meer
Jonathan Williams alternates between playing the role of elder statesman and that of rambunctious old cuss. You can hear it in his poetry...
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Ian McEwan
5 mei 2005 · 29 min
Saturday (Doubleday) Lees meer
Ian McEwan's first book since his stunning Atonement, is one of the first novels written in response to 9/11 and worldwide threats of terrorism. It explores of the forces of order and chaos that shape contemporary society....
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Roberto Calasso
28 april 2005 · 29 min
K. (Knopf) Roberto Calasso--scholar, publisher, polymath--delves into the works of Franz Kafka more deeply than anyone ever has. In this conversation, we explore the demonic and metaphysical elements of Kafka's world. Calasso describes one of the happier interludes in Kafka's life, in the process adding new dimensions to the word -Kafka-esque.- Lees meer
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Gilbert Sorrentino
21 april 2005 · 30 min
In Lunar Follies (Coffee House), one of his genre-defying extravaganzas, Gilbert Sorrentino describes outlandish art shows, all of them taking place in galleries named for mountain ranges and craters of the moon...
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Steve Erickson: Our Ecstatic Days
14 april 2005 · 30 min
We explore the hallucinatory intensity of Steve Erickson's visionary novel born out of the anxiety provoked by the imagined loss of a child....
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Martha Kinney, Derek McCormack and Dennis Cooper
7 april 2005 · 29 min
The Fall of Heartless Horse by Martha Kinney (Akashic); Grab Bag by Derek McCormack (Akashic) Lees meer
Two young writers and their editor tell about their new books for a new publishing house: McKinney, in the style of a Scottish border ballad, chronicles the fall of a suburban family, while McCormack employs wicked understatement to celebrate a depraved childhood...
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Camille Paglia
31 maart 2005 · 30 min
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon) Lees meer
Firebrand Paglia devotes her energies to a vibrant demonstration of how to read poetry, attacking the theorists who've made understanding a poem preposterously complex, and passionately defending the poems she's chosen that represent poetry at its greatest....
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Marilynne Robinson, Part II
24 maart 2005 · 30 min
Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In the second part of our conversation, we explore the historical and social forces that shape Marilynne Robinson's narrator, John Ames, and, by extension, the Protestant Church... -
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
17 maart 2005 · 30 min
Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The loveliness of life, life itself as a blessing, is the subject of Marilynne Robinson's beautiful book. In this first of a two-part conversation, we discuss her narrator, a preacher, and his troubled relations with the world and the people around him. Lees meer -
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World
10 maart 2005 · 29 min
A wizard of a storyteller, Greenblatt combines prodigious historical research and encyclopedic knowledge to conjure a vision of life and love in Elizabethan England.
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Cynthia Ozick
3 maart 2005 · 30 min
Heir to the Glimmering World (Houghton Mifflin)
Eccentric and beautiful, Cynthia Ozick's novel is about an immigrant family's attempts to preserve a dying esoteric tradition.... -
Mark Helprin
24 februari 2005 · 29 min
The Pacific and Other Stories (Penguin) Lees meer
Mark Helprin's critics--who mainly regard him as a political conservative and, therefore, a traitor to imaginative literature--have made him into a martyr. Here, he fends off the slings and arrows to say what he believes a writer to be, and describes the values he wants his work to embrace.
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Joy Williams: Honored Guest
17 februari 2005 · 30 min
Joy Williams, specialist in what should be called sorrowful hilarity, reads from her work Honored Guest. Pretty soon we discover that what we would call a sacrificial victim, she calls an honored guest...
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Dave Eggers
10 februari 2005 · 30 min
How We Are Hungry: Stories (McSweeney-s) Dave Eggers begins by describing his book as an object (it-s designed to look like a Moleskine Journal). From there, we jump to the idea of stories as entries, improvs, breaking the rules as they go. Then, of course, we go on to influences Monty Python, Donald Barthelme, and, and, and... Lees meer
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Susan Sontag
3 februari 2005 · 30 min
The Volcano Lover
Novelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October 1992. On this first visit to Bookworm, she spoke with great enthusiasm about her novel, The Volcano Lover and how she came to write -- of all things -- a romance. Lees meer -
August Kleinzahler
27 januari 2005 · 30 min
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
A a single, perfectly placed phrase brings an essay about the death of August Kleinzahler's brother to a heart-breaking, unforgettable conclusion...
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Alan Hollinghurst
13 januari 2005 · 29 min
The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury) Allan Hollinghurst-s Booker Prize-winning novel pits the aesthetic sensibility against the deprivations of Margaret Thatcher-s London-here seen as the protagonist-s largely frustrated war against ingrained social gay-bashing. Lees meer
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Russell Banks
6 januari 2005 · 30 min
The more closely you investigate Russell Banks' powerful new novel, The Darling, the stranger it becomes. Set in Liberia, it explores its heroine's narcissistic wound....
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Orhan Pamuk
23 december 2004 · 30 min
Snow (Knopf) Lees meer
Turkey's preeminent novelist, Orhan Pamuk, has decided to write a political novel-without a political agenda. The result resembles -- but not quite -- the great metaphysical novels he's written previously...
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Courtney Angela Brkic
16 december 2004 · 29 min
The Stone Fields Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Courtney Angela Brkic recruited her forensic skills to help exhume and identity bodies from besieged villages in Bosnia. She is American born, of Serbo-Croatian lineage. This conversation, then, is about the pain of ancestral memory and the consequences of direct contact with the dead.
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Louis de Bernières
9 december 2004 · 30 min
Birds without Wings (Knopf) Lees meer
In a conversation about the birth of the conflicts that beset us, Louis de Bernières (Corelli's Mandolin) talks about a Turkish village where difference is so ordinary that a Muslim religious leader can ask a Catholic priest for advice...
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Kem Nunn
2 december 2004 · 29 min
Tijuana Straits (Scribner) Lees meer
The inventor of "surf-noir," Kem Nunn, describes how the evil of the world offers an opportunity for a writer of thrillers to structure a tale of redemption.
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Don Lee: Country of Origin
25 november 2004 · 30 min
Country of Origin (Norton) Lees meer
Multi-racial ethnicity underlies the mystery in this literary thriller by Korean-American writer Don Lee, who spent much of his childhood first in Japan and then in Korea....
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
18 november 2004 · 30 min
The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin)
Spaniard Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses the way he utilizes "modern narrative technologies" to re-tool the traditional novel and create a work filled with history, terror and love--but also with uncertainty, deconstruction and despair. Lees meer -
William H. Gass: Reading Rilke
11 november 2004 · 30 min
The greatest living writer of prose in English explores his deepest influence: Rainer Maria Rilke. In this conversation, we witness the interpretation of two modern masters.
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William T. Vollmann
4 november 2004 · 30 min
Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins) Lees meer
William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...
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Dan Chaon
28 oktober 2004 · 30 min
You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine) Lees meer
However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences subside into spiritless accidents...
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Steve Almond
21 oktober 2004 · 30 min
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Algonquin) The author traveled our country visiting the stalwart independent manufacturers of classic candies. His beautifully written, wacky essay provokes this melancholy conversation about America's sweet tooth. Lees meer
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Marianne Wiggins
14 oktober 2004 · 30 min
Evidence of Things Unseen (Simon & Schuster) Lees meer
Marianne Wiggins returned to live in America after many years in England. Having written two turbulent, disturbing books, her new one, set in American between the world wars, is a surprise...
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A Tribute to Czeslaw Milosz
7 oktober 2004 · 30 min
Czeslaw Milosz, the great Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet, died in August. He was a great humanist who believed in the power of poetry to affect the world and whose own work left an imprint on his century.
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Angus Fletcher
30 september 2004 · 29 min
A New Theory of American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Harvard University Press) Angus Fletcher, the literary critic as seer, carefully discerns the difference between American poetry and its more bombastic British forbears. Fletcher demonstrates how, true to the spirit of democracy, Whitman devised an anti-hierarchical style, altering poetry forever. Lees meer
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Alex Garland
23 september 2004 · 30 min
The Coma (Riverhead) Alex Garland explores the metaphysical underpinning of his pared-down skeletal novel. He feels he took a big risk and expects to be attacked. We offer him, instead, the possibility of being understood.
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Craig Nova
16 september 2004 · 30 min
Cruisers Lees meer
(Shaye Areheart Books)
The dark precisions of Craig Nova's Cruisers provoke anxiety. Tension mounts; the book feels like a thriller, but one of a very high order...
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Karen Joy Fowler
9 september 2004 · 29 min
The Jane Austen Book Club (Putnam) Karen Joy Fowler's comic romance is filled with sly references to Jane Austen's novels. Is Fowler paying homage or challenging Jane with this look at contemporary attitudes toward love and sex among a group of Janeites? Lees meer
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David Bezmozgis
2 september 2004 · 30 min
Natasha and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
David Bezmozgis captures the lives of Jewish immigrants in Canada. The difficulty of starting a new life in a new place is reflected by the prose style, which is tough, spiky and even belligerent...
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John Banville: Shroud
26 augustus 2004 · 30 min
Michael Silverblatt flew to Dublin for the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day and night immortalized in James Joyce's Ulysses. He took the opportunity to talk with John Banville and poet Seamus Heaney...
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Seamus Heaney
19 augustus 2004 · 29 min
Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision...
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Art Spiegelman
12 augustus 2004 · 29 min
In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon)
Because Art Spiegelman lives within walking distance of the site
of the Twin Towers, his graphic novel about 9/11 captures the panicky
race to make sure his children are safe, that the world hasn't ended,
and, most of all, to ensure that his dread and paranoia don't dissipate
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Walter Abish
5 augustus 2004 · 29 min
Double Vision: A Self Portrait (Knopf) Lees meer
Walter Abish's most-admired novel, How German Is It, was written before the writer had ever set foot in Germany. This new book, non-fiction, finds Abish on German soil, defending his imaginary Germany...
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom
29 juli 2004 · 30 min
The Daydreaming Boy (Riverhead)
Micheline Aharonian Marcom explores the moral, cultural and sexual consequences of genocide... -
Jim Shepard
22 juli 2004 · 30 min
Project X (Knopf); Love and Hydrogen Lees meer
(Vintage)
Jim Shepard's fondness for the little guy, the day-dreaming Walter Mitty type is the focus of this conversation, leading to the big question...
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E. L. Doctorow: Sweet Land Stories
15 juli 2004 · 30 min
This lovely new collection features con men, killers, cult leaders, baby stealers and the occasional prophet. E.L. Doctorow reveals his affection for these disparate, desperate Americans and offers a reason for the centrality of women in these stories. Lees meer
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Rebecca Solnit
8 juli 2004 · 30 min
River of Shadows (Penguin); Hope in the Dark (Nation) Lees meer
In her poetic biography, Rebecca Solnit uses the figure of photographer Edward Muybridge to discuss a whole range of metaphysical issues...
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Martin Amis: Yellow Dog
1 juli 2004 · 30 min
Yellow Dog (Miramax) Lees meer
While examining the mysteries of Martin Amis' enigma-turned-thriller, we speculate about the future of the literary novel...
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Suzan-Lori Parks
24 juni 2004 · 30 min
Getting Mother's Body (Random House) Lees meer
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks talks about her first novel, rejecting an art of concealment for one that celebrates rollicking immediacy and oddball truth...