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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Jane Smiley
3 juli 2003 · 30 min
Good Faith (Knopf) Lees meer
An ebullient book about fraud and deception-the eighties, Jane Smiley-style.
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Don DeLillo: The Body Artist
26 juni 2003 · 30 min
Cosmopolis (Scribner's) and The Body Artist (Scribner's) Lees meer
In this, the second of a two-part interview, Don DeLillo explores his most enigmatic creation: the weird gnome at the heart of his last novel, The Body Artist.
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Don DeLillo: Cosmopolis
19 juni 2003 · 30 min
The deadpan master of post-modern dysfunction-comedy takes an ordinary New York traffic jam and transforms it into a funeral procession that guides his protagonist to defeat and death.
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John Murray
12 juni 2003 · 29 min
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies Lees meer
(Harper Collins)
A young doctor who has worked in developing countries, John Murray has written a collection of stories in which chaos and order wrestle for domination...
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Kate Moses
29 mei 2003 · 29 min
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin-s) Kate Moses attempts and achieves the impossible: she weaves Sylvia Plath-s imagery and intensity into an interior landscape illuminating the last week of the great poet-s life. In the process, Moses creates a convincing portrait of a hypothetical Plath-one who has earned a mastery of her demons and a place in the Pantheon. Lees meer
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ZZ Packer
22 mei 2003 · 30 min
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead) Lees meer
With her extraordinarily confident language, newcomer ZZ Packer confronts issues of race, class and education that have flummoxed more-experienced writers...
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Jessica Shattuck
15 mei 2003 · 29 min
The Hazards of Good Breeding (Norton) Jessica Shattuck skewers the narrow-minded prejudices of the Boston aristocracy. How did Shattuck, the daughter of a liberal lawyer and niece of a prominent literary critic, find the tenderness and insight necessary to give her characters human depth? Lees meer
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John D'Agata: The Next American Essay
8 mei 2003 · 29 min
This remarkable anthology presents a picture of what the American essay is, and what, with any luck, it may become.
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William Gibson
1 mei 2003 · 29 min
Pattern Recognition (Putnam) Lees meer
William Gibson, the inventor of cyber-punk, says that his new novel, though set in the future, is realistic...
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Norman Mailer
24 april 2003 · 30 min
The Spooky Art Lees meer
(Random House)
Norman Mailer, the lion at eighty, stayed lair-bound long enough to assemble this collection of his thoughts about writing..
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Louise Erdrich: The Master Butchers Singing Club
17 april 2003 · 29 min
For the first time, Louise Erdrich writes about the European side of her heritage. Her new novel is about the confrontation of German and Native American cultures in North Dakota between World Wars...
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Brian Hall
10 april 2003 · 29 min
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company (Viking) Brian Hall-s novel of Lewis and Clark turns the extraordinary expedition upside down to find its dark underside-the ignorance, racism and despair at the heart of the American wilderness adventure.
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A. S. Byatt (Part II)
3 april 2003 · 29 min
A Whistling Woman (Knopf)
In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed quartet. -
A. S. Byatt (Part I)
27 maart 2003 · 30 min
A Whistling Woman (Knopf)
Dame Antonia Byatt began a quartet of novels twenty years ago with The Virgin in the Garden. She completes this huge project with A Whistling Woman. -
Geoff Dyer: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
20 maart 2003 · 30 min
A wild and beautiful writer, Geoff Dyer goes to Rome where he "basically did nothing all day"....
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Colum McCann
13 maart 2003 · 30 min
Dancer (Metropolitan) Lees meer
Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating, glittering, suspended in bright air. We discover how the subject, Nureyev, taught McCann a new way to write.
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Hubert Selby, Jr (Part II)
3 maart 2003 · 30 min
The nightmare continues. After the success of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby pursues his bleak vision in Waiting Period...
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Hubert Selby, Jr. (Part 1)
27 februari 2003 · 29 min
In the first of a two-part interview, Hubert Selby, Jr, now in his seventies, reviews and relives the tumult created by his debut novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn.
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Ron Padgett: You Never Know
20 februari 2003 · 30 min
Ron Padgett tells the story of three writers who traveled from Tulsa to Manhattan and became the leaders of the second generation of the New York School of Poetry.
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Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
13 februari 2003 · 30 min
Jeffrey Eugenides' multi-generational novel in which a Greek-American family, replete with elements of Greek tragedy (incest, hermaphroditism), witnesses American history.
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Kim Deitch
6 februari 2003 · 30 min
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Pantheon) In a special edition of Bookworm, Art (Maus) Spiegelman joins us to introduce Kim Deitch, -one of the best kept secrets in comics for over 35 years.- Deitch-s graphic novel is a double extravaganza-a comic about the making of animated cartoons. Lees meer
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Jonathan Franzen: How to Be Alone
30 januari 2003 · 30 min
In this edgy conversation, author Jonathan Franzen and his interviewer take positions, argue, reverse positions and start again...
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Mary Robison
23 januari 2003 · 30 min
Tell Me (Counterpoint); Why Did I Ever (Counterpoint) Lees meer
Mary Robison returns to her student days of writing stories for John Barth's workshop, and the days of being edited by Roger Angell, for The New Yorker, and by Gordon Lish, for book publication at Knopf. These teachers and editors both shaped and thwarted her enigmatic, instinctually accurate style...
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Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo
16 januari 2003 · 30 min
In this moving interview, Sandra Cisneros reveals the connection between history and family history: the processes of memory....
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Joyce Carol Oates: I'll Take You There
9 januari 2003 · 30 min
Joyce Carol Oates' I'll Take You There (Ecco) appears to be a novel about college in the 1960s and interracial dating. At its heart, though, it pits skeptical against mystical philosophy...
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Tristan Egolf
2 januari 2003 · 30 min
The Skirt and the Fiddle (Grove) When young Egolf-s first novel, The Lord of the Barnyard, was published, he was compared to writers he-d never read or heard of. Now, his second novel, a breezier, easier book, is being compared to his first. In this conversation, we talk about the vibrant smells of both his books-a tour through the sewers and gutters of bohemia. Lees meer
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Michael Chabon
26 december 2002 · 30 min
Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax Books) Lees meer
A magical conversation with Michael Chabon about children's literature...
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Frances Sherwood
19 december 2002 · 30 min
The Book of Splendor (Norton) History, hilarity, romance and spirituality find a meeting place in the Prague of 1601. A simple Jewish orphan falls in love with a golem, and an emperor searches for the secret of eternal life: Frances Sherwood explores the path from history to fantasy, from societal regulation to sexual liberation. Lees meer
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Paul Auster
12 december 2002 · 30 min
The Book of Illusions Lees meer
(Holt)
Paul Auster expresses his preference for mysterious clarity over "clever" literary effects in The Book of Illusions, a metaphysical thriller about a mysterious filmmaker...
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Nick Tosches
5 december 2002 · 30 min
In the Hand of Dante (Little, Brown) Lees meer
Nick Tosches, a veteran tough guy, tells us what happens when the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy falls into the hands of the Mafia...
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Adam Haslett
28 november 2002 · 30 min
You Are Not a Stranger Here (Doubleday) Lees meer
Viewed together, the short stories in Adam Haslett's bravura first collection present a fugue of obsessions and concerns: mental illness, surrogate parents, suppressed or uncontrollable desires, and the search for a way to order experience....
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Anthony Lane
21 november 2002 · 30 min
Nobody's Perfect (Knopf) Lees meer
We pursue the New Yorker's critic through the dark woods of his literary and cinematic interests, finally emerging into a clearing as Anthony Lane reveals his longstanding love for the world of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner and Blandings Castle...
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Mary Woronov
14 november 2002 · 30 min
Niagara (Serpent?s Tail) The Amazon dominatrix of Warhol-superstardom has become an impressive novelist, specializing in primal Noir fiction. Her feminist archetypes, her dangerous sexualized landscapes, her fantasies of revenge and retribution all reveal the strategies of an artist who transforms rage into visions of liberation. Lees meer
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Part I
31 oktober 2002 · 30 min
Having returned to his native Brooklyn after a more than 20 years in California, Gilbert Sorrentino's new books span the continent with an unrelenting experimental style...
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Ben Marcus: Notable American Women
24 oktober 2002 · 30 min
Ben Marcus, a younger member of the avant-garde, talks about some of the devices that have structured his books...
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James McCourt: Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
17 oktober 2002 · 30 min
Novelist James McCaourt constructs the complicated personality of a movie goddess in retreat.
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Dennis Cooper
10 oktober 2002 · 29 min
My Loose Thread (Canongate Books)In his most vulnerable and emotionally accessible novel, Dennis Cooper explores the mind of a boy who is like one of the Columbine killers. He talks about the world the boy imagines-and our compassion enlarges as the boy-s consciousness shuts down. Lees meer
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Rick Moody: The Black Veil
3 oktober 2002 · 30 min
Rick Moody explores his dark ancestry, which includes the Puritan minister who inspired a famous Hawthorne story...
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Francine Prose: The Lives of Muses
26 september 2002 · 30 min
Francine Prose's The Lives of the Muses is a series of "brief lives" of women who inspired famous men: Alice of Alice in Wonderland, Yoko Ono, Mrs. Salvador Dali, the pre-Raphaelites...
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Dave Eggers
19 september 2002 · 29 min
McSweeney-s Books Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) has invested in his beliefs and started up a press. He publishes the popular -lit-mag- McSweeney-s and a whole line of books by authors he admires. We explore and evaluate this unusual inventory. Lees meer
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Oliver Sacks: Oaxaca Journal
12 september 2002 · 30 min
Wherever Oliver Sacks goes, the nature of consciousness is his subject...
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Charles Simic
5 september 2002 · 30 min
Night Picnic: Poems (Harcourt) Lees meer
Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic examines his work under
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Alice Sebold
29 augustus 2002 · 30 min
The Lovely Bones (Little Brown) Lees meer
In Alice Sebold's eerie and fascinating first novel, a murdered girl reveals a double mystery: the nature of heaven (from where she narrates her story) and the nature of earth (where her family remembers her and her murderer remains uncaught).
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Michael Frayn
22 augustus 2002 · 30 min
Spies (Metropolitan Books) An elderly man reviews his childhood, discovering more than he could have possibly known as a child. Michael Frayn shows us that while children may play at being spies, adults are actual spies who explore the past and unearth secrets that alter their own identities. Lees meer
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Oscar Hijuelos: A Simple Habana Melody
15 augustus 2002 · 30 min
Oscar Hijuelos gives us a sentimental rumba-and a return to his first inspiration: Cuban music.
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated
8 augustus 2002 · 30 min
Jonathan Safran Foer's literary debut commanded lavish praise and immediate popularity.
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Maya Angelou
1 augustus 2002 · 30 min
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (Random House) Lees meer
Maya Angelou has completed her extraordinary autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Here, she speaks about the people she knew when she started out as a writer, how she learned to write (she was a dancer), and who she is now.
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Viken Berberian: The Cyclist
25 juli 2002 · 30 min
Viken Berberian's first novel attempts to take us inside the head of a failed suicide bomber, exploring his connection to the subject and the models in music and poetry that brought him closer to this dissociated and shattered personality...
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Lydia Davis
18 juli 2002 · 30 min
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (McSweeney's) Lees meer
Lydia Davis' stories are miniatures. Acutely observed specificities are tautly rendered. Such intimate detail provides a keyhole view of how sanity gives way to obsession, and obsession gives way to wild comedy.
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Ian McEwan
11 juli 2002 · 30 min
Atonement (Doubleday) Lees meer
Ian McEwan explores both the technique and passion of his novel-his extraordinary assumption of a woman's voice and her malicious acts that violate the social fabric.