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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Amy Gerstler: “Index of Women”
1 juli 2021 · 30 min
Amy Gerstler's new book of poetry, “Index of Women,” is the product of a heart the world broke.
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Joshua Cohen: 'The Netanyahus'
24 juni 2021 · 30 min
Joshua Cohen speaks about “The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor And Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family,” his new book that’s funny and tragic at the same time.
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Joan Silber: 'Secrets of Happiness'
17 juni 2021 · 30 min
Joan Silber writes about life's strange surprises in her new book, “Secrets of Happiness."
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Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman: “Street Cop”
10 juni 2021 · 30 min
Not a comicbook, but literally illustrated text, “Street Cop,” written by Robert Coover and inhabited by Art Spiegelman.
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Edward St. Aubyn: 'Double Blind'
3 juni 2021 · 30 min
Edward St. Aubyn discusses his new book, “Double Blind,” and writing about the problems with consciousness that have long fascinated his consciousness.
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Domenico Ingenito: 'Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry'
27 mei 2021 · 30 min
Domenico Ingenito speaks about his book, “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry.”
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Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret
20 mei 2021 · 30 min
Biographer Brad Gooch reveals that he traveled 2500 miles to trace Rumi's footsteps, learned Persian and spent eight years to write “Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love.”
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Sandi Tan: 'Lurkers'
13 mei 2021 · 30 min
Sandi Tan speaks about writing “Lurkers” with a gut feeling, and following an emotional momentum.
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Rachel Cusk: “Second Place”
6 mei 2021 · 30 min
Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place” wants to render the sensations and apprehensions of living that are pretty much beyond language.
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George Toles: 'Status Update'
29 april 2021 · 30 min
“Status Update,” the mini-narratives of George Toles, accompanied by magnificent art responses from Cliff Eyland.
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Rachel Kushner: “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020”
22 april 2021 · 30 min
Rachel Kushner’s “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020” is a career-spanning collection of nineteen essays.
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Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse”
21 april 2021 · 30 min
Rita Dove’s new book of poetry, “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” goes in many different historical and personal directions.
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Wayne Koestenbaum: “The Cheerful Scapegoat”
15 april 2021 · 30 min
Wayne Koestenbaum’s first book of short fiction, “The Cheerful Scapegoat,” is a spectacularly odd and original collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables.
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Kazuo Ishiguro: “Klara and the Sun”
8 april 2021 · 30 min
Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” is a novel focused on a small group of people in a robot future.
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A Kazuo Ishiguro Retrospective
1 april 2021 · 30 min
A retrospective of Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel laureate in literature.
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Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets”
25 maart 2021 · 30 min
The debut novel of Robert Jones, Jr., “The Prophets,” is lyrical prose about the dimensionality and interiority of people.
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Carol Edgarian: “Vera”
18 maart 2021 · 30 min
Carol Edgarian’s “Vera” is the story of a strong, capable, and independent girl whose voice is the voice of the book.
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A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Time of Useful Consciousness”
11 maart 2021 · 30 min
A tribute to the co-founder of the highly influential independent bookstore and publisher City Lights, renowned poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: “The Committed”
4 maart 2021 · 30 min
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new novel, “The Committed,” the follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer,” and the second entry in a planned trilogy. It brings Nguyen’s storytelling further into the philosophy of refugees, feminism, communism, anti-communism and more—the terror of both the American war in Vietnam and the French presence in Vietnam, along with the Vietnamese presence in America andFrance. This is duality enacted as a writing method; this is a union between theory and fiction. A novel of ideas and politics and history and theory, but also a crime novel. A novel you’re not born knowing how to read, and you might have to reread it, this is exciting contemporary literature. Lees meer
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Ann Beattie: A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
25 februari 2021 · 30 min
Ben’s life falls down around him, and he’s the protagonist, in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, by master writer Ann Beattie.
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David Duchovny: “Truly Like Lightning”
18 februari 2021 · 30 min
David Duchovny speaks about his new novel, “Truly Like Lightning,” and its plot that matters.
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George Saunders “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” (Part 2)
11 februari 2021 · 30 min
Part two of two: George Saunders speaks about his new book, “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life."
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George Saunders: “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” (Part 1)
4 februari 2021 · 30 min
The first in a two-parter with George Saunders discussing his new book, "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life."
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Rebecca Sacks: “City of a Thousand Gates”
28 januari 2021 · 30 min
Rebecca Sacks discusses her novel, “City of a Thousand Gates,” which explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by testing its boundaries.
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Eileen Myles: “For Now (Why I Write)”
21 januari 2021 · 30 min
Those who read to write will want to hear Eileen Myles talk about “For Now,” which is part of the "Why I Write" series from Yale University Press.
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Alan Felsenthal and Peter Cole discuss Harold Bloom’s “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death”
14 januari 2021 · 30 min
Venerated critic Harold Bloom’s final book “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death” is discussed by the poets Alan Felsenthal and Peter Cole.
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Susan Taubes, introduction by David Rieff: “Divorcing”
7 januari 2021 · 30 min
David Rieff discusses “Divorcing” by Susan Taubes: the reimagined end of an autobiographical marriage.
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Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
31 december 2020 · 30 min
Garth Greenwell discusses seeking human truths by writing into an abyss, and his new novel Cleanness.
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
24 december 2020 · 30 min
Brit Bennett pushes questions of race and color to their extremes in her new novel, The Vanishing Half.
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: “The Freezer Door”
17 december 2020 · 30 min
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new book “The Freezer Door” explores the idea of radical visions not predicated on dominant forms.
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Jen Craig: “Panthers and the Museum of Fire”
10 december 2020 · 30 min
Jen Craig discusses writing “Panthers and the Museum of Fire,” a short and expansive book that feels immense, rich and complex.
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Mary Ruefle: Dunce
3 december 2020 · 30 min
Dunce, by Mary Ruefle, finds meaning everywhere.
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Douglas Stuart: “Shuggie Bain”
26 november 2020 · 30 min
Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” is not a book to miss.
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Charles Baxter: 'The Sun Collective'
19 november 2020 · 30 min
The eerie realism of Charles Baxter reaches an apotheosis in his new novel, “The Sun Collective.”
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Nicole Krauss: 'To Be a Man'
12 november 2020 · 30 min
Nicole Krauss speaks about subconscious magic and realism combining through the art of writing, and her new book of short stories, “To Be a Man.”
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Mauro Javier Cárdenas: “Aphasia”
5 november 2020 · 30 min
Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses reimagining narrative possibilities with his new book, “Aphasia."
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Douglas Stuart: “Shuggie Bain”
29 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” is not a book to miss.
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Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
22 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Charles Yu’s "Interior Chinatown" is a contemporary novel about dealing with the difficulty of being whoever you are.
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Marilynne Robinson: 'Jack'
15 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Marilynne Robinson’s “Jack” is a book that Bookworms have been eager to read: the fourth volume of her multi-award-winning Gilead novels.
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Walter Mosley: “The Awkward Black Man”
8 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Walter Mosley’s “The Awkward Black Man” is a new book of short stories that brings readers into the middle of the experience of people today.
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Barbara Kingsolver: “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)”
1 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Barbara Kingsolver discusses crossing genres of writing and her second book of poetry, “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons).”
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Jay Parini: “Borges and Me: An Encounter”
24 september 2020 · 30 min
Seventy-one-year-old Jorge Luis Borges as seen through the eyes of twenty-one-year-old Jay Parini in “Borges and Me: An Encounter.”
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Aracelis Girmay: “How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”
17 september 2020 · 30 min
“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton,” edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary special treat.
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Mitch Sisskind: “Collected Poems 2005-2020”
10 september 2020 · 30 min
Mitch Sisskind discusses writing humorous poetry and his new book, “Collected Poems 2005-2020."
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Henri Cole: Blizzard
3 september 2020 · 30 min
Henri Cole is a really sensational poet even for people who may not think poetry can be sensational. He works for the universe and he discusses his new book of poems “Blizzard” on Bookworm.
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “Likes”
27 augustus 2020 · 30 min
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s “Likes” is a layered book of nine short stories.
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Edmund White “A Saint from Texas”
20 augustus 2020 · 30 min
Several kinds of novels in one, Edmund White’s “A Saint from Texas” is so good you might forget a novel can be this good.
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Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part 2)
13 augustus 2020 · 30 min
Elizabeth Wetmore’s “Valentine” is an impressive demonstration of the power of the voices of women.
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Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part 1)
6 augustus 2020 · 30 min
Elizabeth Wetmore discusses her debut novel, “Valentine,” and Southern conservatism that wants to steer clear of the uglier parts of life.
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Margot Livesey: “The Boy in the Field”
30 juli 2020 · 30 min
Life and story go hand in hand in Margot Livesey’s “The Boy in the Field.”