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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Lorrie Moore
15 juli 1999 · 29 min
Lorrie Moore "Birds; of America" (Knopf) Lorrie Moore shows how her short stories compare with the ballads of Tin Pan Alley. That is: how do you give misery and lovesickness the bounce of a popular tune?
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Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Part II
8 juli 1999 · 30 min
Part II of a two-part interview. An epic love story? From Salman Rushdie?! How and why Rushdie, the great cynic, surmounts the worn conventions of boy-meets-girl.
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Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Part I
1 juli 1999 · 30 min
Gods and goddesses-from those of Greece and India, to the media pantheon of Rock and Roll-underlie The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Salman Rushdie on the uses of myth. (Part I of a two-part interview. )
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Nathan Englander
24 juni 1999 · 30 min
Nathan Englander "For; the Relief of Unbearable Urges" (Knopf)Jewish-American fiction takes a riveting new direction in the work ofNathan Englander, who was brought up Hasidic on Long Island. Thetwenty-nine year old writer breaks your heart when he reads from his story"The; Tumblers." Lees meer
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Steven Watson
17 juni 1999 · 30 min
Steven Watson "Prepare; for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism" (Random House) "Four; Saints inThree Acts" by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a modernistsneak-attack, the result of cunning and deliberation. Here's how they did it. Lees meer
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Sue Miller
10 juni 1999 · 30 min
Sue Miller "While; I Was Gone" (Knopf) Sue Miller's new novel has an odd morality ? could it be that generations of preachers have influencedher thought?
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Alex Garland
3 juni 1999 · 30 min
Alex Garland "The; Tesseract" (Riverhead) In this unusual interview, the popular young English novelist (The Beach) presents the secret purpose of his work: a closely reasoned defense of atheism.
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Lois Ann Yamanaka
27 mei 1999 · 30 min
Heads by Harry Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Asian-American Lois-Ann Yamanaka evokes the melding of native traditions with tourist pop culture that characterized her Hawaiian childhood.
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Ian McEwan
20 mei 1999 · 30 min
Amsterdam Lees meer
(Doubleday)
Articulate and sinister Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan discusses the role of pathology (and that poet of pathology, Sigmund Freud) in his work.
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Thom Jones
13 mei 1999 · 29 min
Thom Jones "Sonny; Liston Was a Friend of Mine" (Little Brown) Thom Jones, famous for his short stories, brings his trademark dementia and wooziness to a discussion of his own writing.
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David Remnick and Mary F. Corey: Through a Monocle
6 mei 1999 · 30 min
Social historian Mary F. Corey joins David Remnic, the new editor of the New Yorker, for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's. Lees meer
Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Mid-Century (Harvard). A social historian joins the new editor of the New Yorker for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.
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Curtis White
29 april 1999 · 29 min
Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive) Lees meer
This novel describes a man who remembers his father mostly through the TV shows they watched together...
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Marina Warner
22 april 1999 · 29 min
Marina Warner "No; Go the Bogeyman" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The dark side of fairy tales. A conversation about the cultural persistence of the threateners of children, ogres, cannibals, vampires and kidnapers-with a special guest appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lees meer
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Harry Mathews
15 april 1999 · 29 min
Harry Mathews "Oulipo; Compendium" (Atlas) Poet-novelist Harry Mathews discusses a unique literary movement and shows how strong emotion can penetrate even the most whimsical and arbitrary forms.
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Bret Easton Ellis
8 april 1999 · 30 min
Bret Easton Ellis "Glamorama;" (Knopf) He has been rejected by critics and reviled by Gen X, yet Bret Easton Ellis reaches to the core of an eerie American phenomenon: the postmodern fusion of terror and irony.
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Mitch Sisskind
1 april 1999 · 30 min
Mitch Sisskind "Divine; Deception: The Inner Gender of Gender" (Earl University Press) A maverick scholar unravels the secret hoaxes that have masked the sexuality of many authors of Western Literature-from the Bible to the internet.
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Nuruddin Farah
25 maart 1999 · 30 min
Nuruddin Farah "Secrets;" (Arcade) An extraordinary conversation about the Somali author's language and family. The sounds of a mother's speech patterns initiate a web of recollection-magic realism from a deep, personal wellspring.
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Kevin Killian
18 maart 1999 · 29 min
Kevin Killian "Poet; Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance" (Wesleyan/New England) Jack Spicer was the maddest, loneliest and most inspired poet on the Berkeley arts scene. His biographer makes sense of Spicer's techniques for rearranging the senses. Lees meer
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Irvine Welsh
11 maart 1999 · 29 min
Irvine Welsh "Filth;" (Norton) From anarchism (Trainspotting) to fascism (Filth): Irvine Welsh on his gallery of outsiders.
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T. C. Boyle
4 maart 1999 · 18 min
T.C. Boyle Stories Lees meer
(Viking)
T.C. Boyle describes the styles and attitudes that have earned him a trademark in the writing of short stories.
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A. L. Kennedy
25 februari 1999 · 29 min
A. L. Kennedy "Original; Sin" (Knopf) The first American publication ofthis lively and quirky member of the new Scottish renaissance. Talk aboutthe war between the sexes! Better yet, talk about a powerful new voice.
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Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman: Shakespeare in Love
18 februari 1999 · 29 min
Re-imagining Shakespeare's life as a high-flying farce in Shakespeare in Love. We talk about gender, comedic structure and challenge of putting Shakespeare on the screen.
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David Remnick: King of the World
11 februari 1999 · 30 min
The new editor of the New Yorker on the techniques of the profile. How does one journalist master sports writing for his book on Ali, having won a Pulitzer for his anatomy of the new Russia?
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Tom Wolfe
4 februari 1999 · 30 min
A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
As a New Journalist, Tom Wolfe infiltrated sub-cultures: the Merry Pranksters,U.S. Astronauts, New York painters. In his novels, he aims for the bigpicture -- the whole cultural machine...
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Cathleen Schine
14 januari 1999 · 30 min
Cathleen Schine "The; Evolution of Jane" (Holt) A comedy of manners turns into a nightmare of subjectivity. Cathleen Schine on moving from third-to-first person narration-that is, from manners to madness.
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Mark Richard: Charity
7 januari 1999 · 30 min
Charity (Doubleday) Lees meer
An extended metaphor describes Mark Richard's fiction: the world as a charity ward where the deformed, the anguished and the damned seek rescue--or is it redemption?
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Howard Norman
24 december 1998 · 30 min
The Museum Guard Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Howard Norman has won awards for his extraordinary, quiet fiction, but he has rarely discussed its meanings...
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Dodie Bellamy
17 december 1998 · 30 min
The Letters of Mina Hacher (Hard Press) Lees meer
Post-modern feminism! Deconstructed Gothic horror! A character from Bram Stoker's Dracula meets the San Francisco literary scene...
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Andrea Barrett
10 december 1998 · 7 min
Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton). An Arctic expedition provides the setting for a confrontation between a reticent man of science and a raging egoist.
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Michael Byers
3 december 1998 · 30 min
Michael Byers, author of The Coast of Good Intentions (Houghton Mifflin). This young short-story writer makes a really impressive debut. A look at his landscape (Washington state's coastline) and his influences ("steal; from the best").
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A Month of Milosz: Old Age and Influence
24 november 1998 · 30 min
This month, at 87, Czeslaw Milosz sees the publication of his newest book, A Roadside Dog. (Part four of four)
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A Month of Milosz: Post-War
19 november 1998 · 29 min
The Captive Mind and the move to California. (Part three of four)
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A Month of Milosz: Young Adulthood
12 november 1998 · 30 min
Genocide, war and the destruction of his homeland bring a dark vision into Czeslaw Milosz's poetry. (Part two of four)
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A Month of Milosz: Introduction and Childhood
5 november 1998 · 30 min
Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz's memories of childhood make for a poetry of ecstasy and initiation. (Part one of four)
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
29 oktober 1998 · 30 min
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, author of Torn Wings and Faux Pas (Pantheon) . The uniquely crazy lexicographer discusses her fairy-tale dictionary-explosion novels.
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Toni Morrison
22 oktober 1998 · 30 min
In this exclusive interview on the subject of her classic novel Beloved (Knopf), Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison discusses areas of the writer's imagination that can't be captured by the film.
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Kenward Elmslie
15 oktober 1998 · 29 min
Kenward Elmslie, author of Routine Disruptions (Coffee House Press). Finally--a collection of poems that ranges across wizard-poet Elmslie's career. Be sure to hear "Girl; Machine" -- an entire Busby Berkeley musical in a single poem. Hands down, Bookworm's favorite living American poet. Lees meer
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Peter Hedges
8 oktober 1998 · 30 min
Peter Hedges, author of An Ocean in Iowa (Hyperion). The author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape has written a new novel of childhood angst. Hedges explores his access to childhood memories and the difficulties of being a minister's son.
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Ann Beattie: Park City
1 oktober 1998 · 29 min
A selection of stories--classic and new--by Ann Beattie, a woman who changed the emotional color of American fiction...
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Lydia Davis
24 september 1998 · 30 min
Almost No Memory (Ecco) Lees meer
Lydia Davis, the author of peculiar miniature prose pieces reads and discusses her explorations of the space between the intellect and the physical world.
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Daniel Menaker
17 september 1998 · 30 min
Daniel Menaker, author of The Treatment (Knopf). Daniel Menaker on his comedy of morals. It's a New York novel with all the trimmings: psychoanalysis, prep schools and the death of the New York intellectual way of life.
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Jane Smiley
10 september 1998 · 29 min
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Knopf). Lees meer
Just one of the implications in this historical novel is that women disciplined their slaves more harshly than did male slave-owners. How has the author come to this conclusion? Jane Smiley on writer's intuition.
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Nicholson Baker
3 september 1998 · 30 min
The Everlasting Story of Nory (Random House) Lees meer
The secret of Nicholson Baker's newest novel (a collaboration with his pre-adolescent daughter) is revealed in this interview taped before a live audience.
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Rose Tremaine
27 augustus 1998 · 30 min
Rose Tremaine, author of The Way I Found Her (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). An English schoolboy's infatuation with a mysterious older Russian novelist is charted in a novel whose tone shifts from coming-of-age enchantment to uneasy sexual guilt.
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John Irving: A Widow for One Year
20 augustus 1998 · 30 min
John Irving speaks about loss--of marriage, children, parents, love, and explores his work's greatest paradox.
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Richard Price
13 augustus 1998 · 30 min
Richard Price, author of Freedomland (Broadway). A high-wire thriller for the peak of the summer. Richard Price brings wild style and dare-devil, Lenny Bruce-like riffs to his urban nightmares. It's a best-seller even an aesthete can love.
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Norman Mailer
6 augustus 1998 · 30 min
The Time of Our Time Lees meer
(Random House)
Some of the greatest prose highs of this American century are found in this vast anthology by Norman Mailer.
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C. S. Godshalk
30 juli 1998 · 29 min
C. S. Godshalk, author of Kalimantaan (Holt). A startling first novel, set in Borneo, about the wars between order and nature. While the author claims the book is about love, this interview shows it to be equally about disappointment and loss.
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Mark Doty
23 juli 1998 · 30 min
Mark Doty, author of Sweet Machine (Harper Flamingo). Mark Doty reveals why his mandarin poetry is becoming, well, sleazier.
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Jane DeLynn
16 juli 1998 · 30 min
Jane DeLynn, author of Bad Sex Is Good (Painted Leaf Press). The urbane Jane DeLynn discourses on the difficulty of everything--from sex to simply breathing.