Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Guy Maddin
17 juni 2004 · 30 min
From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings Lees meer
(Coach House)
When the emerging avant-garde filmmaker Guy Maddin published his journals, the connection between his life and his wacky operatic visionary movies was bound to come out....
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Harold Bloom: The Best Poems of the English Language
10 juni 2004 · 30 min
With solemnity, grace and a little defensiveness, this Grand Old Man of Letters reads, discusses and defends his choices...
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Alice Walker
3 juni 2004 · 30 min
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (Random House) Lees meer
She's at it again! This time, Alice Walker takes to the rain forest for the most-recent leg of her spiritual journey. We meet shamans, visit Hawaiian grief circles, and learn the secrets of ethno-botany...
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Lucie Brock-Broido
27 mei 2004 · 29 min
Trouble in Mind: Poems (Knopf) The ecstatic and ghoulish poetry of Lucie Brock-Broido is stitched together from fragments of poetic history. In this case, she writes a whole suite of poems from titles that Wallace Stevens listed in a notebook but never used. How does she arrive at her very original voice when quotation and appropriation are her constant strategies? Lees meer
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Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
20 mei 2004 · 29 min
The hero of The Confessions of Max Tivoli is born an old man who ages backwards -- not an unusual fantasy premise.
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Melissa Pritchard
13 mei 2004 · 30 min
Melissa Pritchard's Late Bloomer is funny. She's taken her ongoing interest in creativity and transformation, and placed it in counterpoint to a lively parody of New Age spirituality. New questions arise...
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Edwidge Danticat
6 mei 2004 · 30 min
The Dew Breaker (Knopf) Lees meer
What happens when a Haitian "dew breaker" (torturer) moves to America and conceals his identity? In this collection of interrelated stories, Edwidge Danticat explores the twin legacies of torture and secrecy...
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Chris Abani
29 april 2004 · 29 min
GraceLand Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In Chris Abani's GraceLand, a teenage Elvis-impersonator in Lagos, Nigeria lives in poverty as he pursues an American pop-culture dream of success....
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David St. John
22 april 2004 · 30 min
The Face (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Rapid tonal shifts, teetering rhetorical mixtures of irony and self-pity, and overwhelming instability characterize David St. John's The Face, a novella in verse...
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Octavia Butler
15 april 2004 · 30 min
Kindred (Beacon) Although Octavia Butler was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (-genius- grant-) in 1995 because of her science fiction, she does not consider her breakthrough novel, Kindred, to be sci-fi. Indeed, Butler celebrates the 25th anniversary of that book with a review of the many paradoxes that surround her work: contradictions and reversals that have placed her among the distinguished literary novelists of our time. Lees meer
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Benjamin Weissman, with editor Dennis Cooper
8 april 2004 · 30 min
Headless (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic Books) Lees meer
Dennis Cooper is editing a new-fiction series for Akashic Books. Benjamin Weissman's Headless is one of the first of the new releases. Together, writer and editor discuss the poles of Weissman's work...
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Doris Lessing: The Grandmothers
1 april 2004 · 29 min
Doris Lessing, one of our most sage and canny living writers discusses the real stories behind her fiction....
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Rita Dove
25 maart 2004 · 29 min
American Smooth (Norton) Lees meer
When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...
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Clayton Eshleman
18 maart 2004 · 30 min
Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan) An exploration of Upper Paleolithic cave painting leads poet Clayton Eshleman to this meditation about hell and rebirth. This book, in poetry, prose and picture, marks the culmination of a thirty-year investigation of Pre-history. Lees meer
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James McCourt: Queer Street
11 maart 2004 · 29 min
Although camouflaged as a social history, James McCourt's "Queer Street" is a memoir of sexual initiation and awareness...
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Maxine Hong Kingston
4 maart 2004 · 30 min
The Fifth Book of Peace (Knopf) A fire at home destroys her manuscript and reminds Maxine Hong Kingston of the firebombing of Vietnam. She extends the analogy of private loss and public tragedy to arrive at a novel whose purpose is to promote personal serenity and global peace. Lees meer
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Stuart Dybek
26 februari 2004 · 30 min
I Sailed with Magellan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Dream and reality are side by side in Stuart Dybek's short stories--but with a twist. As the sexual dreams of his adolescent characters are shaped by reality, those characters are transformed...
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Tobias Wolff
19 februari 2004 · 30 min
Old School (Knopf)
This conversation illustrates the care Tobias Wolff takes with narrative revelation: every step reveals character, each twist and turn provides a clue to the nature of the mysteriously disagreeable man who narrates this first novel by master storyteller Wolff. Lees meer -
Toni Morrison
12 februari 2004 · 30 min
Love (Knopf)
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison shows how the careful arrangement of specific detail in her newest fiction, Love, forces the reader to participate in its structure. -
Elmore Leonard: Mr. Paradise
5 februari 2004 · 30 min
Mr. Paradise (Morrow) Lees meer
Raffish characters, extreme events and lewd jokes are signatures of the widely praised Elmore Leonard style....
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Susan Choi
29 januari 2004 · 30 min
American Woman Lees meer
(Harper Collins)
The critics loved Susan Choi's novelization of the Patty Hearst saga, but they barely mention the book's center, told from the point of view of the Asian-American woman who helped hide Hearst and her kidnapper comrades...
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Jhumpa Lahiri
22 januari 2004 · 30 min
The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin) Lees meer
Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri defines her beliefs about writing: directness, simplicity, reality and emotional truth are her guideposts. How appropriate then that India-born Gogol, the hero of this new novel, should want to change his name....
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Edmund White: Fanny
15 januari 2004 · 30 min
Edmund White turns himself into Mrs. Trollope, the Victorian traveler who, in her last year, narrates a biography of her scandalous friend, the feminist Fanny Wright....
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DBC Pierre
8 januari 2004 · 30 min
Vernon God Little (Canongate) DBC Pierre (the dark horse underdog who surprised the literary world by winning the 2003 Booker Prize) divulges the hidden workings of his rebellious Columbine-inspired novel: His narrator, a disguised St. Peter, retells Christ's story, using a uniquely profane American vernacular. Lees meer
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Remembering George Plimpton
1 januari 2004 · 30 min
This interview, originally broadcast on March 5, 1998, will not be heard on KCRW so that we may present special holiday programming.
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Remembering Edward Said
25 december 2003 · 30 min
Over the course of his career, Edward Said produced compact and thrilling works that revolutionized the field of literary criticism. In his memory, Bookworm offers a conversation, first broadcast in 2002, in which Said talks about literature, critical theory, and exile. Lees meer
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Pete Dexter
18 december 2003 · 30 min
Train (Doubleday)
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Edward P. Jones
11 december 2003 · 30 min
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Jonathan Lethem
4 december 2003 · 29 min
The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday)
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Susan Sontag
27 november 2003 · 30 min
Where the Stress Falls (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Where does the stress fall in the life of a writer-intellectual? Susan Sontag examines the difference between exploring the interior of a subject and exploring the interior of the explorer... -
Joan Didion
20 november 2003 · 30 min
Where I Was From (Knopf) Lees meer
Joan Didion takes deadly aim at the dream of California embodied, for example, in her own first novel, Run River. As she takes a more discerning look, she discovers even less innocence, less altruism than the early settlers could have imagined.
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Vendela Vida and Julie Orringer
13 november 2003 · 30 min
And Now You Can Go (Knopf) and How to Breathe Underwater (Vintage)
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Chuck Palahniuk: Diary
6 november 2003 · 30 min
Chuck Palahniuk takes on some rather aggressive questions about American culture and the artist...
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Kevin Young
30 oktober 2003 · 30 min
Jelly Roll (a blues) (Knopf); Blues Poems (Everyman's Library) Lees meer
Kevin Young, who has edited a terrific anthology of blues poetry, uses blues traditions as the basis for his own recent work...
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Rikki Ducornet
23 oktober 2003 · 30 min
Gazelle (Knopf) Where will the magical Rikki Ducornet take us next? In Gazelle, the Arabian Nights recur, as a thirteen -year-old girl wanders in 1950's Cairo, reveling in the scents and exotic perfumes that lead to her unusual career as an anatomist of mummies. Ducornet leads us deeper into the realm of the senses than ever before. (Note: This interview will be pre-empted on KCRW by special programming.) Lees meer
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John Kaye
16 oktober 2003 · 30 min
The Dead Circus (Atlantic Monthly Press) John Kaye grew up in Los Angeles. His novel, The Dead Circus, is set in that city and delves beneath the surface of the classic L.A. noir thriller. What effect does all this dread and anomie have on the real people who actually live in the City of Angels? Lees meer
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Janette Turner Hospital
9 oktober 2003 · 30 min
Due Preparations for the Plague (Norton) Janette Turner Hospital's extraordinary fiction is beginning to gain recognition in America. Due Preparations for the Plague, a thrilling study of an airplane hijacking and its effects on the children of its victims, is overpowering in its intensity--generating terrifying imagery that will not easily be forgotten. In this conversation, Hospital explores how her strict religious upbringing in Australia has affected her worldview: she lusts for danger and the destruction of hierarchy. Lees meer
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Heidi Julavits: The Effect of Living Backwards
2 oktober 2003 · 29 min
Heidi Julavits' first book was a bleak novel. Her second book's vision is lighter, but the subject remains dark: a terrorist training cell…
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Ahdaf Soueif
25 september 2003 · 30 min
The Map of Love (Vintage) Lees meer
London-based author Ahdaf Soueif, praised as an "Egyptian George Eliot," describes the impact of middle-eastern and global history on her narratives....
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Barbara Gowdy
18 september 2003 · 29 min
The Romantic (Metropolitan) This very intimate interview focuses on the adolescent desire for magic in romance and the adult discovery that it may not exist. The author describes her own romantic arc and discloses that, both as a writer and as a lover, she depends entirely on intuition. Lees meer
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Yann Martel: Life of Pi
11 september 2003 · 30 min
Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel makes a distinction between the playful, surprise-filled surface of his novel and its spiritual purpose...
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Joseph McElroy (Part 2 of 2)
4 september 2003 · 30 min
Relationships and marriage, violence and loss, houses and homes are the deeply conventional subjects that occupy this unconventional novel. In the second part of a two-part interview, Joseph McElroy shows how his oblique techniques evoke and mirror the emotional intricacies of our daily lives. Lees meer
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Joseph McElroy (Part 1 of 2)
28 augustus 2003 · 30 min
Joseph McElroy, one of the innovative masters of narrative, gives a rare two-part interview. This week, we talk about the way the novelist strives to represent the workings of consciousness, and the new techniques necessary to create a facsimile of the way memory is structured. Lees meer
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Carol Muske Dukes
21 augustus 2003 · 30 min
Sparrow (Random House)
This collection of elegies for actor David Dukes, the poet's late husband, inspires a conversation about death, role-playing and ghosts. Most surprising, we discover an unexpected spectral visitation in one of the poems. -
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
14 augustus 2003 · 30 min
Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (Harper Collins)
A new Little Lit is always an event, and this one has work by the dreaded Lemony Snicket and a fabulous four-page Breughel-like phantasmagoria by the Where's Waldo? guy. This volume of comix for kids -- the third -- definitely does justice to its name! Lees meer -
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
7 augustus 2003 · 29 min
Margaret Atwood on her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
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Siri Hustvedt
31 juli 2003 · 30 min
What I Loved Lees meer
(Holt)
A harrowing subject: the child of an artist giving way to crime, drugs and dishonesty. A harrowing conversation with author Siri Hustved: is the child's amorality genetic or did post-modern art corrupt him?
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Alice McDermott: Child of My Heart
24 juli 2003 · 30 min
An unusually tender conversation with Alice McDermott about grace, imagined here as the act of putting others before oneself...
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Monique Truong
17 juli 2003 · 29 min
The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin) Lees meer
The Vietnamese cook in the famous Paris house of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas narrates Monique Truong's first novel...
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Robert Stone
10 juli 2003 · 30 min
Bay of Souls Lees meer
(Houghton Mifflin)
Robert Stone's novel that features intrigue, romance, violence and voodoo...