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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Edward Hirsch
4 juli 2002 · 30 min
The Demon and The Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (Harcourt) Duende is like -soul,- an inner essence that aligns the artist with demonic or angelic inspiration. Edward Hirsch traces the manifestations of duende from Spanish poetry to Action Painting, from Rilke to Jackson Pollack. Lees meer
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Howard Norman
27 juni 2002 · 30 min
The Haunting of L. Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
At a certain point in this conversation, the author is referred to as "my ghost, Howard Norman..."
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Jim Krusoe
20 juni 2002 · 30 min
Iceland (Dalky Archive) Jim Krusoe pits his dear-but-doltish narrator against a surreal, disaster-prone universe, creating a unique comedy of the little man versus authorial imagination.
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Jonathan Dee
13 juni 2002 · 30 min
While writing Palladio (Doubleday) another of his complex novels of ideas, Jonathan Dee discovered his gift for creating complex human characters-and altered the course of his writing career.
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Edna O'Brien
6 juni 2002 · 30 min
In the Forest (Houghton Mifflin) Lees meer
Edna O'Brien's predilection for darkness, Greek tragedy and the terrifying fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm achieves its riskiest manifestation in her new novel, In the Forest...
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Cees Nooteboom
30 mei 2002 · 30 min
All Souls Day (Harcourt) Lees meer
Although afternoon television talk shows have made us all too familiar with the stages of grief, Cees Nooteboom's philosophical novel offers a different perspective...
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Peter Carey
23 mei 2002 · 30 min
True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage)
Peter Carey captures the fated life of the Australian outlaw-hero Ned Kelly in thrilling run-on sentences: the world looms up, sudden and alive in phrase after breathless phrase. Here, he talks about the evolution of this springing, spirited voice. Lees meer -
John Burnham Schwartz
16 mei 2002 · 30 min
Claire Marvel Lees meer
(Doubleday)
John Burnham Schwartz has written a contemporary romance, complete with obsession, nightmare and a
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David Mitchell
9 mei 2002 · 30 min
Number 9 Dream Lees meer
(Random House)
David Mitchell, a radiant and gifted young writer, places his work at the center of a barrage of influences...
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Richard Ford
2 mei 2002 · 30 min
A Multitude of Sins (Knopf) Lees meer
Richard Ford, finds in adultery, his most recent subject, traces of old Emersonian independence. But he still considers his newest heroes to be "hurtling to their doom."
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Marc Estrin
25 april 2002 · 30 min
Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa Lees meer
(BlueHen Books)
This first novel by enterprising novelist Marc Estrin
introduces Gregor Samsa, Kafka's famous roach, to the monstrosities of the twentieth century....
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Library of America
18 april 2002 · 30 min
Library of America (Geoffrey O'Brien, editor in chief and Max Rudin, publisher) Library of America is a publisher whose mandate is to keep American classics in print. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, we'll explore the Library's surprising new definitions of what is American and what is classic. Are crime novels, screenplays, song lyrics and the work of Russian -migr-s included? For more information about the publisher, go to LibraryOfAmerica.org. Lees meer
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William Kennedy
11 april 2002 · 30 min
Roscoe (Viking) Lees meer
Truth, when it disappears from one's public life, also tends to be unavailable in one's personal life. Pulitzer prize-winner William Kennedy talks about his greatest rascal yet, a politician to whom the word truth is anathema...
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Curtis White
4 april 2002 · 30 min
Requiem Lees meer
(Dalky Archive Press)
Curtis White has created comedy from degeneration by counterpointing Biblical stories, biographies of Classical composers, and the e-mailed sexploits of pornographic web-site users..
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Robert Creeley
28 maart 2002 · 30 min
Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (New Directions) Lees meer
On the occasion of a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Robert Creeley discusses the many influences on his singular poetry: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky and Robert Duncan. In addition, he talks about the love of family and friends that has united his influences and his past into a "company."
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Sigrid Nunez
21 maart 2002 · 30 min
For Rouenna (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Sigrid Nunez's books reveal the secrets of lives that have fallen through the cracks....
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Ron Koertge
14 maart 2002 · 30 min
Geography of the Forehead (University of Arkansas Press) In the sweet mayhem of Ron Koertge's hilarious poems, a surreal vision collides with the sadness of daily life. Koertge talks about his transformation from a "smarty; pants" poet into a gentler wise-cracker. Lees meer
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An Isaac Babel Celebration
7 maart 2002 · 30 min
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Norton) Lees meer
We inaugurate Bookworm's Book Club with a celebration of the Russian master, Isaac Babel. We'll focus on the paradox of his disturbing laconic style: the lyric joy of a Jew describing Cossack violence...
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Jane DeLynn
28 februari 2002 · 30 min
Leash (Semiotexte) As always, Jane DeLynn leaves a trail of magnificent broken taboos behind her. Here, she confesses that she can go no further in her unbroken chain of transgressions. Hear this dark comic novelist at her turning point. Where do you go after the abyss? Lees meer
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Steve Martin
21 februari 2002 · 30 min
Shopgirl (Hyperion) Lees meer
When Steve Martin brought out his first novella, Shopgirl praise from the writing community (Salman Rushdie, for example) indicated that he can be taken seriously...
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Susan Sontag
14 februari 2002 · 30 min
On Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypkin (New Directions)
Susan Sontag talks about the discovery of lost and forgotten masterpieces, in particular, this novel, never published in America, about an odd vacation in the life of Fyodor Dostoevski... -
Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly, editors
7 februari 2002 · 29 min
Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Harper Collins) Spiegelman and Mouly discuss their exciting treat for kids of all ages-the newest Little Lit, with weird illustrated tales by the likes of Paul Auster, Maurice Sendak and Jules Feiffer.
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Allen Kurzweil
31 januari 2002 · 30 min
The Grand Complication (Hyperion) A genuinely odd discussion about the consequences of scholarly book-loving. That is, a conversation about manipulation, games-playing, sexual repression and sadism in the lives of Kurzweil's characters who continue their unwholesome adventures beyond the intrigues and enigmas of his first novel, A Case of Curiosities. Lees meer
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Mario Vargas Llosa
24 januari 2002 · 30 min
The Feast of the Goat Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant novel about the Trujillo regime, the Dominican Republic stands for all tyrannized nations and the 1960's stand for any period of political domination and unrest...
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Allan Gurganus: The Practical Heart
17 januari 2002 · 30 min
Allan Gurganus talks intimately about the people who introduced him to art and literature during his childhood.
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Isabel Allende: Portrait in Sepia
10 januari 2002 · 30 min
Isabel Allende on war, love, autobiography, patriarchy, feminism and sex.
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Edward Said
3 januari 2002 · 30 min
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (Pantheon); The Said Reader (Vintage) Lees meer
A passionate conversation about exile, literature and critical theory. Palestinian-born Edward Said discusses his work: from his early philosophical criticism, through critique of imperialism, to his recent memoir.
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John D'Agata: Halls of Fame
27 december 2001 · 29 min
The inventor of a new style of lyrical essay writing, John D'Agata talks about the classical traditions he draws upon and the special American loneliness that resonates in his unusual sentences...
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Coleman Barks
20 december 2001 · 30 min
The Soul of Rumi (Harper San Francisco) Lees meer
Rumi's ancient mystical poetry swings between ideals of transcendence and destruction. Coleman Barks explores the extreme polarities that underlie the work...
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Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
13 december 2001 · 30 min
When The Corrections appeared, it was immediately nominated as a candidate for The Great American Novel. Jonathan Franzen discusses his manner of writing, his method of construction, and the possibility that his book advocates a family values-based neo-conservatism. Lees meer
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W. G. Sebald
6 december 2001 · 30 min
Austerlitz (Random House)
What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in relation to our new century. In this conversation, Sebald describes the source of his rare prose tone and explores the invisible presence of the concentration camps in his work. Lees meer -
Joan Didion
29 november 2001 · 30 min
Political Fictions (Knopf) Lees meer
We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for stories with clear resolutions and, instead, searches out the messy realities that stories conceal.
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Richard Flanagan
22 november 2001 · 30 min
Death of a River Guide (Grove) Lees meer
In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. Author Richard Flanagan insists that reality in his island homeland is stranger still...
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David Means: Assorted Fire Events
15 november 2001 · 30 min
David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms his tightly calibrated realistic fiction into a moral tightrope-walk.
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Henry Bromell
8 november 2001 · 29 min
Little America (Knopf) Lees meer
Author Henry Bromell, the son of a CIA agent, discusses the traps, secrets and patricidal rivalries that can turn father-son relationships into metaphors for espionage...
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John Barth, Part II
1 november 2001 · 30 min
Coming Soon!!! Lees meer
(Houghton Mifflin)
More on the spectacular fictional inventions of John Barth-including dual narrators, Muse-author collaborations, and stories so complexly interconnected that they mirror the spiraling structure of the universe. (Part II of a two-part interview)
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John Barth, Part
25 oktober 2001 · 30 min
Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin) Lees meer
A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions and contractions of language and, in particular, his creation of double-gendered narration are explored, explained, exhibited and exclaimed over.(Part I of a two-part interview)
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T. A. Shippey
18 oktober 2001 · 30 min
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin) With the film of Lord of the Rings hard upon us, Professor Shippey recalls Tolkien and his interest in language and epic poetry. As a special treat, Shippey sings Tolkien's school song, which, disguised, makes its way into the Sagas of Middle Earth. Lees meer
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Salman Rushdie: Fury, Part II
11 oktober 2001 · 30 min
In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and film. Special attention is paid to the blurring distinction between humans and machines and the painful irony implicit in the difficulty of making such a distinction. (Part one aired October 4.) Lees meer
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Salman Rushdie: Fury, Part I
4 oktober 2001 · 30 min
In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury.
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Li-Young Lee
27 september 2001 · 30 min
Book of My Nights (BOA Editions) Lees meer
Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls "primal silence..."
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New American Short Stories
20 september 2001 · 30 min
Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton) Lees meer
Three young writers, each publishing a first book with a major press, explore the terrain of contemporary short-story writing, from personal backgrounds to their desires to break with tradition...
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Walter Mosley
13 september 2001 · 30 min
Fearless Jones (Little Brown) Lees meer
Walter Mosley is best known for his noir mysteries. With books set in the black communities of Los Angeles, he writes the hidden histories of race, sensuality, crime and cultural aspiration....
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Arnon Grunberg
6 september 2001 · 29 min
Silent Extras (St. Martin's) The young Dutch writer who created a sensation in Europe with his first novel, a sort of Amsterdam-set Catcher in the Rye, talks about the perils of recognition and his continuing need to evade seriousness. Read an excerpt from this book. Lees meer
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Ann Patchett
30 augustus 2001 · 30 min
Bel Canto (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Ann Patchett knows that a novel is an author's private kingdom-problems the world can't solve can be solved within the pages of a book...
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Ethan Canin
23 augustus 2001 · 29 min
Carry Me Across the Water (Random House) Lees meer
Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of their parents...
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Nick Hornby
16 augustus 2001 · 30 min
How to Be Good (Riverhead) Lees meer
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, has made a shift: the gifted comic novelist has adopted a woman's voice to examine marriage, fidelity, happiness and, finally, moral goodness.
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Carol Muske-Dukes
9 augustus 2001 · 29 min
Life after Death (Random House)
Carol Muske-Dukes began to write a dark comedy about death. Slowly, she discovered that compassion was reshaping her book, giving it depth and complexity... -
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
2 augustus 2001 · 30 min
Three Apples Fell from Heaven Lees meer
(Riverhead)
Micheline Aharonian Marcom's stunning first novel imagines the Armenian genocide...
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Ann Lauterbach
26 juli 2001 · 30 min
If in Time, Collected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin) Lees meer
Ann Lauterbach believes that one of the primary functions of poetry is the demystification of the world's cliches and the creation of new wonders...