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Robert Stone
9 juli 1998 · 30 min
Damascus Gate Lees meer
(Houghton Mifflin).
Robert Stone explores the underlying holiness of all faith--from the fanatic's to the mystic's, from the con-man's to the addict's...
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Dorothy Allison
2 juli 1998 · 30 min
Dorothy Allison, author of Cavedweller (Dutton). Dorothy Allison's arrival as a significant voice in mainstream American fiction provokes questions of identity and the limits of truthfulness. How far can she go?
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Timothy O'Grady
25 juni 1998 · 30 min
Timothy O'Grady author of I Could Read the Sky (Harvill). A collaborative novel consisting of prose by Tim O'Grady and photographs by Steve Pike, I Could Read the Sky is a devastating account of the lives of Irish workers in England. O'Grady explores his own uprooted nature and how he discovered his "voice.;" Lees meer
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Stephen Kessler
18 juni 1998 · 30 min
A Tribute to Julio Cort---r. Stephen Kessler, the translator of Save Twilight (City Lights), the first volume of Cort---r's poetry to appear in English, discusses the great South American fabulist--his life, his lunacy, his politics, his surrealism, and his cat. Lees meer
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Russell Banks: Cloudsplitter
11 juni 1998 · 30 min
The fictionalized life of abolitionist Frederick Douglass is
the jumping-off point for a conversation about the white writer's contribution
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Gore Vidal
28 mei 1998 · 29 min
The Smithsonian Institution Lees meer
(Random House)
The urbane Gore Vidal on the emotional center of his newest "invention"...
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Aharon Appelfeld
21 mei 1998 · 30 min
Aharon Appelfeld, author of The Iron Tracks (Schocken). The Israeli writer reveals the story behind the writing of his newest novel, a fable about the life of a concentration camp survivor who obsessively revisits the scenes of his imprisonment.
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Alice McDermott: Charming Billy
14 mei 1998 · 29 min
Alice McDermott's prose captures the suburban Irish-American family. How does her dense, constricted, complex writing-style reflect the lives of these everyday folk?
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Jim Crase
7 mei 1998 · 30 min
Jim Crase, author of Quarantine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This novel of faith by an atheist follows Jesus through his forty-day fast in the desert. It is a rare accomplishment--a realistic novel about a miracle worker, a farce about devotion.
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Martin Amis: Night Train
30 april 1998 · 30 min
Night Train Lees meer
(Crown)
Suicide is the solution to the mystery in Martin Amis' noir thriller with existentialist undercurrents.
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Helen Vendler
23 april 1998 · 30 min
The Given and the Made, The Breaking of Style, Soul Says (Harvard) How does a poet change styles? What turns an autobiographical incident into a poem? Helen Vendler on some of the basic issues of modern poetry.
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Maureen Howard
16 april 1998 · 29 min
Maureen Howard, author of A Lover's Almanac (Viking). The latest from Maureen Howard's over-loaded "data; base" is a new novel about love--and biology, art, destiny, astrology, process, history.
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David Malouf
9 april 1998 · 30 min
David Malouf, author of Conversations at Curlow Creek (Vintage). The award-winning Australian writer searches for a lost child--a search that has mysteriously occupied Malouf for his entire writing life.
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Amos Oz
2 april 1998 · 30 min
Amos Oz, author of Panther in the Basement (Harcourt Brace), reminisces about Israel on the eve of its independence: a portrait of the author as book-loving adolescent.
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Robert Olen Butler
26 maart 1998 · 29 min
Robert Olen Butler The Deep Green Sea (Holt) In this obsessional erotic fantasy about cross-cultural incest, Butler displays the full range of his fictional themes--but does his mythomania bear any relation to truth?
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Jonathan Coe: The House of Sleep
19 maart 1998 · 29 min
Jonathan Coe, a young English writer, has the temperament of a dark, experimental, comic novelist, but he chooses to stay within certain acceptable conventions. A conversation about safety and risk.
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Arthur Golden
12 maart 1998 · 30 min
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha (Knopf) A Harvard-educated man writes the fictional life of a famous courtesan. A Westerner reveals the secrets of Asia. How does a writer assume the authority to transcend gender and culture?
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George Plimpton
5 maart 1998 · 30 min
George Plimpton Truman Capote (Doubleday) Plimpton, the founding father of the modern literary interview and for years the editor of The Paris Review, talks about the nature of the literary interview and the art of biography.
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Miroslav Holub
26 februari 1998 · 29 min
Miroslav Holub Shedding Life (Milkweed) The renowned Czech poet and immunologist explores the border between art and science, questions the beloved tenets of humanists--and reveals his own latent tenderness.
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Tess Gallagher
19 februari 1998 · 29 min
Tess Gallagher At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner) Tess Gallagher reveals her "witching;" techniques that transform talk into literary language. She also speaks candidly about her relationship with Raymond Carver and explains how each influenced the other's work. Lees meer
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David Grossman
12 februari 1998 · 29 min
David Grossman The Zig Zag Kid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The Israeli writer tells the story of how a book written for his son's coming-of-age became a cross-over hit--an adult best-seller in Israel.
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A. S. Byatt
5 februari 1998 · 18 min
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (Random House)
Why do adults need fairy tales? What is, at its essence, the heart of a story? The answers appear as international wise-woman A. S. Byatt unravels the "fairy stories for adults" in her most-recent book. Lees meer -
Joyce Carol Oates: Man Crazy
29 januari 1998 · 30 min
An unusually revealing conversation about female masochism and creativity: Oates on the harrowing of the flesh, penitence and salvation.
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Art Spiegelman
22 januari 1998 · 30 min
Open Me...I'm a Dog (Harper Collins)
In this discussion of a "mind trip" for children, Art Spiegelman reads from his new children's book--with running commentary from the Bookworm. -
Don DeLillo: Underworld
15 januari 1998 · 30 min
The infrequently interviewed Don DeLillo discusses his epic novel, Underworld, particularly the movement toward sincerity and simplicity that characterizes the book's climactic chapters.
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Jamaica Kincaid: My Brother
8 januari 1998 · 30 min
A close look at the waves of passion and neutrality that comprise the style of this elegy on the death of Jamaica Kincaid's brother.
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Deborah Eisenberg
29 december 1997 · 30 min
All Around Atlantis Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This unusual writer, who takes a full year to complete each story, has completed seven -- enough to fill her third book.
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Harold Brodkey Part 2
27 december 1997 · 30 min
The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.
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Edmund White: The Farewell Symphony
11 december 1997 · 29 min
This final book of Edmund White's trilogy about gay life in New York provides gossip, tragedy and, of course, brilliant writing.
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Cal Bedient
4 december 1997 · 30 min
Cal Bedient, Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) This book, the poet's first, comes as the culmination of years of criticism and teaching. Here, an in-depth discussion of one poem leads to a conversation about modernism, metaphor and madness.
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Jim Krusoe
20 november 1997 · 29 min
Blood Lake (Boaz)
Jim Krusoe's stories locate us between an episodic and choppy daily life and an interior world of unimaginably constant anxiety. How does this acrobat of comedy and anguish maintain his balance? -
Susan Straight
13 november 1997 · 30 min
The Gettin'Place (Anchor)
Susan Straight, chronicler of the underclass, can be counted on for rich character delineation and lots of atmosphere. In The Gettin Place, She faces the demands of a complex plot. Can she tell a story? -
Helen Vendler
6 november 1997 · 29 min
Helen Vendler The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard) Surprising and accessible, Vendler, one of America's most respected critics, separates the lovelorn Shakespeare who appears in the sonnets from the masterful poet who wrote them.
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Mona Simpson
30 oktober 1997 · 30 min
A Regular Guy (Vintage) Lees meer
The search for family in Mona Simpson's novels is nearly a sacred quest...
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Arundhati Roy
23 oktober 1997 · 30 min
The God of Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy talks about the price of success in India's literary circles - and about the "small; things" that compensate for disaster.
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Michelle Huneven
16 oktober 1997 · 30 min
Round Rock (Knopf) Michelle Huneven brings the worldly realism of John Steinbeck up to date in a new novel: a story of growth, compassion and knowledge.
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Brian Hall
9 oktober 1997 · 30 min
The Saskiad (Houghton Mifflin) Brian Hall, the author of one of the great novels of adolescence, speaks about the sexual awakening of his narrator.
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Alain de Botton
2 oktober 1997 · 30 min
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not A Novel (Pantheon) The "Stendhal; of the dating scene" Alain de Botton talks about French literature, the virtues of moderation - and happiness.
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Ron Padgett: New & Selected Poems
25 september 1997 · 29 min
Poet Ron Padgett discusses his selected poems.
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Steve Erickson: Amnesiascope and American Nomad
18 september 1997 · 30 min
Steve Erickson's novels dramatize the disintegration of the American dream, using a prose style that is itself dreamlike.
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Caryl Phillips
11 september 1997 · 29 min
The Nature of Blood (Knopf) In her latest novel, Caryl Phillips contrasts slavery and genocide in the lives of Jews and Africans over several centuries. A discussion about the parallel history of prejudice.
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Dennis Cooper
4 september 1997 · 30 min
Guide (Grove). With an aesthetic reflective of hallucinogenic disorientation and the sensory overload of rock and roll, Dennis Cooper talks about the transformation of chaos into art.
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Robert Antoni
28 augustus 1997 · 29 min
Blessed Is the Fruit (Holt) Robert Antoni, the Caribbean novelist on place, aesthetics and gender, plus a spellbinding reading from his novel.
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Alice Walker
21 augustus 1997 · 17 min
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (Random House) Lees meer
The ever-provocative Alice Walker discusses the nature of a writer's social responsibilities.
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Frederic Tuten
14 augustus 1997 · 30 min
Van Gogh's Bad Cafe (Morrow) Frederic Tuten, the author of Adventures of Chairman Mao on the Long March talks about his Pop Art novel of the sixties and the history of the Art novel through the nineties.
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Anne Carson
7 augustus 1997 · 30 min
Plain Water (Knopf); Glass, Irony and God (New Directions) Lees meer
A truly intimate interview about the value of intelligence in the face of passion. Canadian poet Anne Carson has found a new boundary for poetry to explore.
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Rick Moody: Purple America
31 juli 1997 · 29 min
Nuclear energy, nuclear family: does the metaphor of fission apply equally to both? Rick Moody on the disintegration of values and the reintegration of fiction.
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Whitney Otto
24 juli 1997 · 30 min
The Passion Dream Book (Harper Collins) Whitney Otto, author of How to Make an American Quilt, discusses her new novel and the competing demands of family life and art.
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Cees Nooteboom
17 juli 1997 · 29 min
Roads to Santiago Lees meer
(Harcourt, Brace)
The European award-winning novelist Cees Nooteboom explores the metaphysics of travel...
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Norman Mailer
10 juli 1997 · 29 min
The Gospel According to the Son (Random House) Lees meer
Norman Mailer reads "Lazarus Raised from the Dead" and discusses his version of The New Testament as told by Jesus himself.