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Donald Antrim
13 juli 2000 · 30 min
Donald Antrim The Verificationist (Knopf) Donald Antrim-s weird sensibility instinctually concocts hierarchical societies that ritually reject and expel their zanies and oddballs: in other words, him. The supremely evasive Antrim describes the new group of writers he is not so sure he is a part of. Lees meer
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Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves
6 juli 2000 · 30 min
Mark Danielewski builds a haunted house out of the pages of his first novel. It has dark passages, ghostly echoes (of the great books of the past) and a monster at its center.
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Dennis Cooper
29 juni 2000 · 29 min
Period (Grove)
Dennis Cooper is one of the originators of the new fiction. We look at the violently sexual five-book series he recently completed with Period. We focus on its interior design, its aesthetics and, in particular, the sense of integration Cooper feels at the conclusion of his ten-year project. Lees meer -
Dave Eggers
22 juni 2000 · 30 min
Bookworm is excited to celebrate the emergence of a vibrant new generation of fiction writers by talking to the new -staggering geniuses- and some of their forebears. This series, which begins June 22nd, is named in tribute to Dave Eggers- groundbreaking best-seller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Simon & Schuster) The publication of AHWOSG caused readers to sit up and take notice of a new generation of American writers, many of whom are published in Dave Eggers- magazine McSweeney-s. Their common concerns include sincerity (and the lack thereof), difficulty (and its challenge to readers), and extravagance (a 700-page novel in this crowd is par for the course). In this new interview, Dave Eggers on the new crew. Lees meer
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Jon Davis
15 juni 2000 · 29 min
Jon Davis Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press) Jon Davis is a recent discovery. His poems are beginning to win recognition and awards... unusual for a wildly comic poet in a poetry culture that usually rewards somber meditative works. We discuss the dangers that come with unbridled imagination. Lees meer
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Evan S. Connell
8 juni 2000 · 30 min
Evan S. Connell Deus Lo Volt! Chronicle of the Crusades (Counterpoint) Evan S. Connell, who rarely grants an interview, discusses both the savagery of Holy Wars and his elegant fictionalizing of bloody history.
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Kate Wheeler
1 juni 2000 · 30 min
Kate Wheeler When Mountains Walked (Houghton Mifflin) Prize-winning short-story writer Kate Wheeler describes the ordeal of tackling her first novel. Ordeal it was, bringing her into South American jungles and shattering her Buddhist calm.
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Margot Livesey
25 mei 2000 · 30 min
Margot Livesey The Missing World (Knopf) With an alarming, but quiet malice and wit, Livesey dissects the dark motives underlying her sinister world view.
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Eliza Minot
18 mei 2000 · 29 min
Eliza Minot The Tiny One (Knopf) Literary sibling rivalry: Eliza, the younger sister of Susan, offers her slant on a family we've met before in her sister's novels.
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Jorie Graham
11 mei 2000 · 30 min
Swarm (Ecco, Harper Collins) Lees meer
In an unprecedented impulse to clarify, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham offers an elaborate interpretation of her stunning new book-length poem.
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E.L. Doctorow
4 mei 2000 · 30 min
City of God (Random House) Lees meer
Doctorow unravels the signs and omens of a new order of faith in his visionary millennial novel.
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Kenward Elmslie
27 april 2000 · 29 min
Kenward Elmslie Cyberspace (Granary Books) Kenward Elmslie, our wildest poetic genius, takes no hostages when he explodes into cyberspace in this book-length poem-extravaganza.
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Richard Slotkin
20 april 2000 · 30 min
Richard Slotkin Abe (Holt) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starring young Abe Lincoln? What does this exploration into our 16th president's childhood reveal about American literature and heroism?
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Timothy Findley
13 april 2000 · 29 min
Timothy Findley Pilgrim (Harper Collins) Timothy Findley insists on Jung's dispassionate anti-humanist attitudes in Pilgrim, his confrontation with the frontiers of madness and history. Why? There is more in heaven and earth than there is dreamt of in your philosophy, Dr. Jung. Lees meer
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David Eggers
6 april 2000 · 30 min
David Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Simon & Schuster)We approach this anti-memoir about the death of both of the author's parents with an eye on this question of distinction: when does heartbroken facetiousness become heartlessness? Lees meer
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James Quandt
30 maart 2000 · 29 min
James Quandt, editor of Robert Bresson (University of Indiana Press) The recent death of Robert Bresson, the legendary French film director, provides the occasion for this tribute to Bresson's purity of style and the power of his literary adaptations. James Quandt, film curator and editor of an anthology of essays on Bresson, is our guest. Lees meer
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Susan Sontag
23 maart 2000 · 30 min
In America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
With In America, Susan Sontag embarks on an exploration of America through the eyes of a great Polish actress. What is an American? What is the role of a woman in the American imagination? A conversation about the invention and re-invention of a woman's identity. This is the last in our nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination." Lees meer -
Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde
16 maart 2000 · 30 min
The life of Marilyn Monroe inspires Joyce Carol Oates, vast accomplishment in Blond and provides an opening for our conversation about a feminine icon. Part 8 of the nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."
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Ana Castillo
9 maart 2000 · 29 min
Ana Castillo Peel My Love Like and Onion (Doubleday) Castillo's new novel is about an aging and crippled flamenco dancer. We talk about the powerful sensuality that keeps the dancer vital despite age, infirmity and the demands of an exacting art. Coming from a family of curanderas, Castillo focuses, as well on her experiences with "the; healing arts." Part 7 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".; Lees meer
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Jamaica Kincaid
2 maart 2000 · 30 min
Jamaica Kincaid on "the feminine arts," from reproduction to literary creation. Part 6 of the nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."
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Gioia Timpanelli
24 februari 2000 · 29 min
Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul (Vintage) Storytelling iswhat later becomes literature, says professional storyteller GioiaTimpanelli. Here, she looks at her novellas and their roots in fairy tales,myths and the oral tradition. Part 5 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".; Lees meer
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Rikki Ducornet
17 februari 2000 · 30 min
Rikki Ducornet The Fan-Maker?s Inquisition (Holt) Rikki Ducornetclaims that the imagination has no gender and no limitations. In aninvestigation of its dangers, we focus on the Marquis de Sade, theextermination of the Maya and erotic art. Part 4 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".; Lees meer
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Pamela Houston
10 februari 2000 · 30 min
Pamela Houston A Little More About Me (Norton) Houston identifiesherself as a ?human animal? and her writing as an exploration of thedistance she feels from conventional ideas about gender. Part 3 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".; Lees meer
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Annie Leibovitz
3 februari 2000 · 30 min
Annie Leibovitz Women (Random House) The photographer talks abouther identification with her subjects: women and what their faces say aboutwomen?s lives. Part 2 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;
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Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune
27 januari 2000 · 30 min
In the first of a series on women's writing and imagination, Isabel Allende uses feminist terms to describe her history of the California Gold Rush. (Part 1 of 9)
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Roddy Doyle
20 januari 2000 · 30 min
Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry (Viking) Roddy Doyle, novelist of the Irish working class, takes a picaresque gallop through "the; Troubles" in an historical novel about an inconveniently heroic sod.
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Frank McCourt
13 januari 2000 · 29 min
Frank McCourt 'Tis: A Memoir (Scribner) America's favorite Irishman talks about the dubious luxury of writing his second memoir while on airplanes and in waiting rooms--the hurtle from the tragic to the anecdotal.
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Michael Frayn
6 januari 2000 · 29 min
Michael Frayn Headlong (Metropolitan) This British comic novel links an art-theft caper to both a philosophical inquiry into authenticity and an historical analysis of Breughel's painting. Frayn on the art of historo-philosophic comedy.
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James Galvin
23 december 1999 · 30 min
Fencing the Sky Lees meer
(Holt)
Western American novelist James Galvin contrasts the eternal values of the natural world of his youth with the rapacity of the "land pimps" who infest the New West.
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Scott Turow
16 december 1999 · 30 min
Scott Turow "Personal; Injuries" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This master of the legal thriller talks about the complexity of his characters-a complexity achieved by an understanding of law morality and story-telling.
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Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden
9 december 1999 · 29 min
Jamaica Kincaid's beautiful notes on gardening uncover the same imperialistic and racist assumptions she exposes in her fiction.
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Chuck Palahnuik: Fight Club
2 december 1999 · 29 min
The author of Fight Club gives an intense and raw description of his world view.
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Jonathan Lethem
18 november 1999 · 30 min
Motherless Brooklyn Lees meer
(Doubleday)
The western, the hard-boiled mystery, the sci-fi epic; these are the screens behind which Jonathan Lethem's oedipal dramas loom.
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Kurt Vonnegut
11 november 1999 · 30 min
Kurt Vonnegut "Bagombo; Snuff Box" (Putnam) Kurt Vonnegut began by writing conventional short stories. Here, he talks about the development of his wild style, his comic voice and his moral code.
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Chang-rae Lee: A Gesture LIfe
4 november 1999 · 30 min
Chang-rae Lee says the Asian-American experience is written about "in a yellow light." Here, he turns off that light to penetrate a harsh reality.
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Michael Ondaatje: Handwriting
28 oktober 1999 · 30 min
Michael Ondaatje, discussing his poetry, explores the mystery of language itself--the language of his birth, its ancient poetry and mythologies.
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Paul Auster
21 oktober 1999 · 30 min
Timbuktu (Holt) Lees meer
In life, as in his metaphysical mystery novels, the elegant Paul Auster implies and evades, implies and evades -- as he does in his newest novel, featuring a talking dog.
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Wayne Johnston
14 oktober 1999 · 29 min
Wayne Johnston "The; Colony of Unrequited Dreams" (Doubleday); "The; Divine Ryans" (Anchor) In each of these novels a secret is revealed-a secret history in one, a family secret in the other. But why has this Canadian novelist, of the quality of Robertson Davies or Margaret Artwood, remained a secret to Americans? Lees meer
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Sylvia Brownrigg
7 oktober 1999 · 30 min
Sylvia Brownrigg "The; Metaphysical Touch" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In this novel, a romance, of sorts, is struck up via the internet. This, then, is a conversation about the creation of characters, how they reveal themselves, how they invent themselves, and what they tell us about that invisible presence, their author. Lees meer
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Edward Hirsch
30 september 1999 · 30 min
Edward Hirsch "How; to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry" (Harcourt Brace). Some poems are so strong that they leave permanent impressionson the reader; the poems Edward Hirsch introduces are meant to alter the soul.
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Charles Simic
23 september 1999 · 29 min
Jackstraws (Harcourt Brace) Lees meer
Award-winning poet Charles Simic on the objects (stones, forks, dolls) that form the internal puppet theater of his imagination.
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Ron Hansen
16 september 1999 · 30 min
Ron Hansen "Hitler;?s Niece" (Harper Collins). Ron Hansen?sreconstruction of Hitler?s affair with Geli Raubal gives us a glimpse of acreepy, hypothetical menage ---rois: the novelist in bed with innocence andmonstrosity.
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Susan Minot
9 september 1999 · 30 min
Susan Minot "Evening;" (Knopf). The past recaptured! Susan Minot haswritten a swoony, lyrical novel about loss. We talk about that rare thing: aromantic novel that is literary (and close to perfection).
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Peter Matthiessen
2 september 1999 · 30 min
Bone by Bone (Random House). On the culmination of his momentous trilogy, Peter Matthiessen speaks about history, fiction and the destiny of an American anti-hero.
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David St. John
26 augustus 1999 · 30 min
The Red Leaves of Night (Harper Collins). Lees meer
As David St.John's poems grow more elegant, they become more sexual and obsessive...
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Annie Proulx
19 augustus 1999 · 17 min
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Scribner)
Annie Proulx has written an ominous of Western tales -- tall tales, rodeo bragging, cowboy love stories -- profusely illustrated and emotionally dark... -
David Foster Wallace
12 augustus 1999 · 30 min
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown)
Witness the uproarious frenzy of definition when David Foster Wallace cuts loose and tries to make a straightforward statement about the hideous men (and women) in his new book. -
Arthur Sze
5 augustus 1999 · 30 min
Arthur Sze "The; Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998" (Copper Canyon) ArthurSze on the fascinating intersection of astrophysics and Asian metaphysics. Hiswork embodies a sense of time that is both ancient and post-modern.
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Andre Dubus III
29 juli 1999 · 30 min
Andre Dubus III "House; of Sand and Fog" (Norton) Andre Dubus III is the son of a prize-winning Catholic author. How does the son write about the extreme conflicts of life without the resource of his father's faith?
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Carolyn See
22 juli 1999 · 30 min
Carolyn See "The; Handyman" (Random House) Carolyn See solves the problems of love, life and art by wittily applying practicality, compassion and humor. In her new book, she offer what every woman needs: a handyman.