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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Ariel Dorfman
19 juli 2001 · 30 min
Blake's Therapy (7 Stories Press) Lees meer
Ariel Dorfman describes his goal: to subvert the techniques of melodrama and thriller-writing in order to penetrate illusion and arrive at reality with a capital R.
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Carl Phillips
12 juli 2001 · 29 min
The Tether (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Pastoral (Gray Wolf) Lees meer
Strongly influenced by the Metaphysical poets, Carl Phillips writes a mixture of erotic and devotional poetry...
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Louise Erdrich: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
5 juli 2001 · 30 min
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Louise Erdrich mixes elements of her German and Native American ancestry to create a collage of history, mythology and good old-fashioned storytelling....
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John Felstiner, translator
28 juni 2001 · 30 min
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan Lees meer
(Norton)
John Felstiner
has produced a superb translation of works by the great Holocaust poet Paul Celan...
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Nicholson Baker
21 juni 2001 · 30 min
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Random House)
Nicholson Baker has been on a crusade to preserve intact our books and newspapers. In Double Fold, he exposes the efforts of some of the greatest enemies of paper. -
John Balaban, translator
14 juni 2001 · 29 min
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong (Copper Canyon Press) Lees meer
Ho Xuan Huong was an 18th century Vietnamese poet and concubine. Poet John Balaban served as a conscientious objector in Vietnam during the war. We explore the complex destinies that led him to learn Vietnamese and to translate Ho's complex, erotic poems.
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Jack Fuller
7 juni 2001 · 29 min
The Best of Jackson Payne (Knopf) Lees meer
A conversation with author Jack Fuller, who happens to be the president of the Tribune Publishing Company, and Steve Wasserman, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, about concern journalistic ethics, conflicts of interest, and art.
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Amitav Ghosh
31 mei 2001 · 30 min
The Glass Palace (Random House)
Amitav Ghosh's ambitions are Tolstoyan. He chronicles the tragedies of the British Empire in India and Burma. His mission: to reconcile large historical themes with his novelistic interest in the intimate details of personal destiny. Lees meer -
Dagoberto Gilb
24 mei 2001 · 30 min
Woodcuts of Women (Grove) Lees meer
Dagoberto Gilb's stories have enormous poetic vitality, yet he feels that he suffers from a lack of recognition. Has his status as a Latino inhibited his acceptance by the literary establishment?
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Lois-Ann Yamanaka
17 mei 2001 · 30 min
Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
In this novel, the distance between autobiography and fiction is minimal. Lois-Ann Yamanaka is living with the problems of raising an autistic child; she has written about the struggle. Does writing help?
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Amy Tan
10 mei 2001 · 30 min
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Putnam) Lees meer
During the writing of The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan endured both the death of her mother and the death of her editor...
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Melanie Rae Thon
3 mei 2001 · 30 min
Sweet Hearts (Houghton Mifflin)Melanie Rae Thon's new novel is very strange: it's narrated by a woman who cannot hear and has not witnessed the events she describes. Her condition inspires our conversation about suffering, grace and the presence of God. Lees meer
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Manil Suri
26 april 2001 · 30 min
The Death of Vishnu Lees meer
(Norton)
In his first novel, Manil Suri reenacts the Bhagavad-Gita in modern Bombay....
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Bernard Cooper
12 april 2001 · 30 min
Guess Again (Simon & Schuster) Lees meer
Bernard Cooper explores the temptations he faces in his writing: a yearning for permanence and security rivaled by a sneaking affection for odd, transient and unique experiences...
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Ann Beattie: Perfect Recall
5 april 2001 · 29 min
Expressing outright admiration for this new collection of stories, Bookworm attempts to pin down Ann Beattie's elusive techniques...
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Matthew Klam: Sam the Cat and Other Stories
29 maart 2001 · 30 min
Matthew Klam discusses the sexcapades of the stud muffins and alleycats of his post-moral stories, truly the most audacious chronicle of sexual discomfort since the stories of John O'Hara...
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Jerome Rothenberg
22 maart 2001 · 29 min
Jerome Rothenberg, editor A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections About the Book and Writing (Granary) Who knows what books will look like ten years from now! While e-books and new technologies loom, poet, anthologist and ethnopoeticist Jerome Rothenberg offers alternative ways to think about books: as sacred objects, storage machines, objects d'art. Lees meer
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Richard Powers: Plowing the Dark
15 maart 2001 · 30 min
Richard Powers' intensity and sincerity blaze through as he discusses science, personal sacrifice and the common mis-assumption that cerebral writers are without passion.
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Ursula LeGuin
8 maart 2001 · 30 min
Ursula LeGuin The Telling (Harcourt Brace) Ursula Le Guin believes that science fiction writers create new worlds in order to understand this one. We discuss the death of literacy and the use of religious fanaticism to limit civil rights in her world of the future. Read about this Book Lees meer
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Mona Simpson
1 maart 2001 · 30 min
Off Keck Road (Knopf) Lees meer
Mona Simpson's delicately textured and beautifully detailed novella about small-town life in Wisconsin provides the occasion for this conversation about women, romance and the decision not to marry.
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Thomas Lynch
22 februari 2001 · 16 min
Bodies in Motion and at Rest (Norton) Lees meer
As a result of his two professions (poet and funeral director), Thomas Lynch has an unusual attitude toward tradition, decorum and memory...
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Eduardo Galeano: Upside Down
15 februari 2001 · 29 min
Eduardo Galeano's denunciation of our multinational globalized future is characteristically brilliant, whimsical-devastating.
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Chris Ware: Jimmy Corrigan
8 februari 2001 · 30 min
The comic book, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon), is Bookworm's nominee for the past year's most interesting novel!
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Gore Vidal
1 februari 2001 · 30 min
The Golden Age (Doubleday) Lees meer
With the completion of his American Empire series, author Gore Vidal reflects upon our national destiny...
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William T. Vollmann
25 januari 2001 · 30 min
The Royal Family (Viking) Lees meer
William Vollmann's growing sense of mystical Christianity is bringing him closer to Dostoevsky...
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Joy Williams: The Quick and the Dead
18 januari 2001 · 29 min
In Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead, bleak and wicked comedy hides the book's religious mission, demonstrating how God and Devil can be mistaken for one another...
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Myla Goldberg
11 januari 2001 · 9 min
Bee Season (Doubleday) Lees meer
This is Myla Goldberg's haunting first novel, about a Jewish family torn apart by manias born of spiritual mysticism on the one hand, and fear and silence on the other....
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Ha Jin
4 januari 2001 · 30 min
The Bridegroom (Pantheon) Lees meer
Ha Jin, a Chinese writer who came to America in 1985, has published seven books of fiction and poetry in English. What are the consequences of giving up a native language? Can writing transform the anger generated by the Cultural Revolution into art?
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Heidi Julavitz: The Mineral Palace
28 december 2000 · 30 min
This remarkable first novel offers an occasion to pay tribute to its late editor, and to salute its young author, whose imagery and vision promise an unusual career.
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Tony Earley
21 december 2000 · 29 min
Jim the Boy Lees meer
(Little Brown)
Tony Earley has been hailed as a new American master, and, indeed, he has written a classic rite-of-passage novel...
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Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
14 december 2000 · 30 min
Kazuo Ishiguro pits a child's naïve dream of becoming a master detective against the larger mysteries of adultery, death and war....
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Michael Chabon
7 december 2000 · 30 min
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Random House) Lees meer
Michael Chabon's novel about escape artists, super heroes and the Golden Age of Comics is a complete entertainment...
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Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes
30 november 2000 · 30 min
The work of novelists Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes is characterized by complexity, beauty and sophistication. Guess what? They write comics!
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Amy Gerstler: Medicine
16 november 2000 · 30 min
Amy Gerstler regards her poetry as a sort of spell to ward off danger. Her new book deals with the tragedies that cannot be evaded by magic.
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Russell Banks: The Angel on the Roof
9 november 2000 · 29 min
The house of fiction has many rooms. Russell Banks talks about the life- choices that led him to occupy his particularly gritty sublet.
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Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
2 november 2000 · 30 min
While revealing her passion for storytelling, cunning Margaret Atwood Lees meer
carefully avoids the secret mechanisms of her engrossing new novel, "The Blind Assassin."
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Mark Strand: Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More
26 oktober 2000 · 29 min
Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More Lees meer
(Turtle Point)
We defy you not to laugh when you hear these poems from the previously sepulchral laureate Mark Strand...
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Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
19 oktober 2000 · 30 min
Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)
In this second interview about Little Lit, its creators, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, remind us that comic books are not just for adults. They talk about the new maturity that leads underground artists to take the safety pins out of their noses and use them in their babies' diapers. Lees meer -
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost
12 oktober 2000 · 30 min
The reticent Michael Ondaatje becomes more revealing. Here he goes so far as to formulate his artistic credo and even makes comments that truly define his unusual vision.
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Diane Johnson
5 oktober 2000 · 30 min
Le Marriage (Dutton) Lees meer
The bird-like flutings of Diane Johnson's amused voice animate this merry duet about France, comedy, depravity and marriage.
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Sherman Alexie
28 september 2000 · 29 min
Sherman Alexie The Toughest Indian in the World (Grove Atlantic) Sherman Alexie is the cynical, irreverent Indian writer (he does not use the term Native American) whose rough, funny stories have led to more than one brush with the tribal elders. Hear him laugh at the kind of people who romanticize "the; rez." Lees meer
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Zadie Smith
21 september 2000 · 30 min
Zadie Smith White Teeth (Random House) Young Zadie Smith's dizzying comic take on multi-racial London. Her background, she says, was so mixed that P.G. Wodehouse's pure-bloods seemed to her to be foreign and "exotic.;"
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Mark Strand: A Blizzard of One
14 september 2000 · 29 min
NOTE: Poet Mark Strand has died at the age of 80. He was a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States. He appeared on Bookworm in 2000. Lees meer
A brow-furrowing conversation with a former poet laureate Mark Strand...
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Jane Smiley
7 september 2000 · 30 min
Horse Heaven (Knopf) Lees meer
At a gallop, Jane Smiley tells us everything she knows about horse breeding, horse racing, horse trading...
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Francine Prose: Blue Angel
31 augustus 2000 · 30 min
Blue Angel pivots on a question of academic sexual harassment...
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J.R. Salamanca
24 augustus 2000 · 30 min
J.R. Salamanca That Summer's Trance (Welcome Rain Press) Salamanca's first book in fourteen years, That Summer's Trance, a shimmering book about love, desire and betrayal, bears the erotic imprint and the tragic sense of life that readers first encountered in his classic novel Lilith Lees meer
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Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly
10 augustus 2000 · 29 min
Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)
Author Art Spiegelman and editor Francoise Mouly introduce Little Lit, their new collection of comics by world-renowned children's book artists and underground cartoonists-all based on fairy tales, all for kids, all in color and beautiful beyond belief. Lees meer -
David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
3 augustus 2000 · 30 min
Our Heartbreaking Group of Staggering Geniuses comes to its conclusion with "Grandmaster" Wallace: a conversation about difficulty , gender, transgression and the use of received ideas-all earmarks of staggering genius.
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George Saunders: Pastoralia
27 juli 2000 · 30 min
In George Saunder's dystopian theme parks, the American Dream festers and thrives fertilized by self-help movements and Big Brother type cults.
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Bret Easton Ellis
20 juli 2000 · 30 min
Bret Easton Ellis Glamorama (Knopf) Ellis, a godfather to the new fiction scene, describes what it-s like to have one foot in each of two generations. He comes from the minimalists (the Raymond Carver gang), but his recent book, Glamorama, is a step in the new direction--complex, ironic, deconstructive, maximalist. Lees meer