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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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E. L. Doctorow
3 juli 1997 · 29 min
Ragtime (Plume)
We look back on E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, its publication, its structure, its long-lasting surprises and its most recent transformation--as a work of musical theater. -
Amy Bloom
26 juni 1997 · 30 min
Amy Bloom Love Invents Us (Random House)Amy Bloom, a therapist by profession, candidly discusses her popular short stories and the challenges of writing her first novel.
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Kenward Elmslie
19 juni 1997 · 30 min
Kenward Elmslie Postcards on Parade (Bamberger Books) Elmslie is our singing poet. Here, the New York School icon rummages through his song book and comes up with everything from country western anthems to surreal dramatic playlets with musical backgrounds. Lees meer
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Robert Stone
12 juni 1997 · 30 min
Bear and His Daughter Lees meer
(Houghton Mifflin)
These collected stories by Robert Stone anticipated developments in American fiction by at least a decade...
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Orhan Pamuk
5 juni 1997 · 30 min
The New Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lees meer
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's imagination evokes the powerful lure of fairy tales. His books bring the magic of childhood reading into the sphere of adult disenchantment.
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Vikram Chandra
29 mei 1997 · 30 min
Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (Little, Brown) The Gods, virtues and storytelling of traditional Hindu culture are at the heart of the stories in Vikram Chandra's new book--and are the focus of this conversation about Indian writing and its audience. Lees meer
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Mark Twain
22 mei 1997 · 30 min
Mark Twain The Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford University Press) In honor of the publication of a twenty-nine volume set of Twain, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Johnson and the set's editor, Shelley Fisher Fishkin join in a roundtable celebration of the American Shakespeare. Lees meer
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David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
15 mei 1997 · 30 min
On a luxury cruise or at a state fair, David Foster Wallace is an ideal reporter on the disintegration of the Actual.
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Literary Presses
8 mei 1997 · 30 min
Literary Presses Serious literature faces a double crisis: the disappearance of funding and the indifference of mainstream publishing. A coalition of literary presses springs to the rescue!
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Alan Warner
1 mei 1997 · 29 min
Alan Warner Morvern Caller (Anchor) A member of the New Scottish Renaissance talks about the literary nature of the movement, as opposed to the drugs, the raves and the trainspotting reported in the media.
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Francine Prose: Guided Tours of Hell
24 april 1997 · 30 min
Francine Prose began her career in the magical-realist mode. Now her books are
cynical and dark. In Guided Tours of Hell she tells why. -
Diane Johnson
17 april 1997 · 30 min
Le Divorce Lees meer
(Dutton)
In this satire of American behavior abroad, Diane Johnson exhibits a lethal distaste for innocence.
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Mitch Sisskind
3 april 1997 · 29 min
Closing the Circle A show about an implausible miracle -- a link between art and commerce. Closing the Circle is an Oulipean tale of air travel. With funds earned by the book, Mitch Sisskind is developing a radio station devoted entirely to literature. Lees meer
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Melanie Rae Thon
27 maart 1997 · 30 min
Melanie Rae Thon First, Body (Houghton Mifflin) Thon has been chosen as one of the top American writers under forty. A discussion of her stories as a confluence of realistic prose and expressionistic poetry.
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Jamaica Kincaid: The Autobiography of My Mother
20 maart 1997 · 30 min
Jamaica Kincaid, who grew up in poverty on Antigua, discusses the cultural contradictions of late capitalism and her ambivalent acceptance of American wealth.
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Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
13 maart 1997 · 30 min
The servant-girl novel, that staple of Victorian fiction, is reinvented by Atwood in her most compelling novel to date, "Alias Grace."
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John Edgar Wideman
6 maart 1997 · 30 min
The Cattle Killings (Houghton Mifflin) As a writer, John Edgar Wideman finds himself at the intersection of African-American experience and High Modernist experimentation. A talk about ethnicity and the avant-garde.
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Lee Smith
20 februari 1997 · 30 min
The Christmas Letters (Algonquin) Lee Smith actively loves her characters; her warmth towards them drives their stories. A conversation about fiction writing as a natural activity-- with roots in childhood, family gossip and country music.
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Tobias Wolf
13 februari 1997 · 30 min
The Night in Question (Knopf) Lees meer
Tobias Wolff on the ethical questions that animate the dramatic heart of his stories. An intense analysis of fiction's relation to truth.
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Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
6 februari 1997 · 16 min
Man Booker-Prize winner Michael Ondaatje seems to be one of the very few writers who appreciates the screen adaptation of his work...
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Michael Lally
30 januari 1997 · 29 min
Michael Lally Can't Be Wrong (Coffee House Press) Michael Lally--part Frank Sinatra, part William Saroyan--is an auditory seducer. This poet will leave you panting.
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Robert Olen Butler
23 januari 1997 · 29 min
Robert Olen Butler Tabloid Dreams (Holt) The characters from supermarket tabloids reveal their inner truths in Pulitzer Prize-winner Butler's poetic stories..
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Elena Poniatowska
16 januari 1997 · 30 min
Elena Poniatowska Tinisima (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Mexico's "premiere; woman of letters" on Tina Modotti--photographer, model, revolutionary--the subject of this biographical novel.
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Paul Theroux
9 januari 1997 · 30 min
Paul Theroux My Other Life (Houghton Mifflin) This autobiography is a supernatural story in disguise--hear Paul Theroux's Dr. Jekyll explain the demonic nature of Paul Theroux's Mr. Hyde.
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Brad Gooch: The Golden Age of Promiscuity
26 december 1996 · 29 min
Brad Gooch reveals the structure of the heroic quest that underlies this misunderstood and frequently reviled novel.
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Junot Diaz: Drown
19 december 1996 · 30 min
Junot Diaz's stories render the young-immigrant experience in harsh, unforgettable rhythms. Here he discusses the art of telling the truth.
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Sigrid Nunez
12 december 1996 · 29 min
Naked Sleeper (Harper Collins) Lees meer
Sigrid Nunez on gender and narrative strategy, the sub-genre known as the "woman's weepie."
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Frank McCourt
5 december 1996 · 30 min
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (Scribner) Memories have becomes trendy, but Frank McCourt's emotional masterpiece bucks the trend. A conversation about how this powerful work -- comprised of comedy and pain, told in the beautifully sustained tones of an Irish tenor -- finally came to be. Lees meer
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Joan Didion
21 november 1996 · 30 min
The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf) Lees meer
Part II of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los Angeles, Miami, New York)
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Joan Didion
14 november 1996 · 30 min
The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf)
Part I of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los Angeles, Miami, New York) and times (the sixties, the seventies, the eighties). Topics include the influences of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and her contemporary, Joyce Carol Oates, the nature of resonance and the role of accident and intuition in the writing of novels. Lees meer -
Ellen Brodkey
7 november 1996 · 30 min
Ellen Brodkey This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey (Metropolitan Books) Ellen Brodkey, widow and editor, joins Bookworm in a memorial to the life and death of American writer Harold Brodkey on the occasion of the publication of his AIDS journal. Lees meer
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E. Annie Proulx
31 oktober 1996 · 30 min
Accordion Crimes (Scribner)
In her newest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx presents an historical cavalcade: her vision of the violence that has been perpetuated against emergingminority cultures. -
Thom Jones
24 oktober 1996 · 29 min
Thom Jones Cold Snap (Little Brown) More than a decade passed between the author's stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the publication of his first book. How does a writer endure the hard times?.
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Lucille Clifton
17 oktober 1996 · 30 min
Lucille Clifton The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions) Her influences, inclinaiton toward short poems and decision to tell "the; terrible stories" are discussed by the poet.
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Terry Tempest Williams
10 oktober 1996 · 31 min
From Idea to Publication: Nature Writing Today A panel discussion with author Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (Ecco); Orion Magazine editor George Russell; and literary agent Elizabeth Grossman.
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Richard Shelton
3 oktober 1996 · 29 min
Going Back to Bisbee Richard Shelton (University of Arizona Press) The winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction discusses his memoir of the desert of the American Southwest.
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Robert Michael Pyle
19 september 1996 · 30 min
Nature and Childhood Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree (Houghton Mifflin) and Scott Russell Sanders Writing from the Center (Indiana University Press) The writers discuss how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination. Lees meer
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Robert Hass
12 september 1996 · 29 min
What is Nature Literacty? Robert Hass Sun Under Wood (Ecco)David Abram The Spell of the Senuous (Pantheon)Alison Hawthorne Deming Science and Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press) Has literacy alienated us from nature? If written language is the cause of separation, can nature-writing provide a way to re-connect? The panelists strive to answer those questions, exploring early oral cultures and the development of the written alphabet. Lees meer
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Barry Lopez
5 september 1996 · 30 min
Barry Lopez Field Notes (Avon) Can nature-writing heal the rift between civilzation and nature? Does activism disturb the making of art? National Book Award winner Lopez discusses the cultural tradition of nature writing.
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Reynolds Price
29 augustus 1996 · 30 min
Reynolds Price Three Gospels (Scribners)On the harshness of faith and the rigors of translation: To most people, the Gospels have the mellifluous sound of the King James version. Novelist Reynolds Price translates two of the Gospels from the original Greek, and the results are startling. Lees meer
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Richard Ford
8 augustus 1996 · 30 min
A summit conference on Richard Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, said to be full of arrogance and irony, is actually about compromise and sincerity.
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Robert Bly
1 augustus 1996 · 30 min
Robert Bly The Sibling Society (Addison Wesley)The relationship between interpretation and story-telling stands, in this conversation,for the relationships between meaning and action, old and young, responsibility and shallowness.
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Grace Paley
18 juli 1996 · 30 min
Grace Paley The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The invaluable, funny, mischief-makerGrace Paley speaks of Jews, men, politics, children and the voices that have entered her permanent, memorable stories.
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Barbara Guest
11 juli 1996 · 29 min
Barbara Guest Selected Poems; Fair Realism (Sun & Moon) "What; is Truth?" is the central questionof Modern Poetry. Barbara Guest approaches that question delicately, wittily and unpretentiously.
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David Shields: Remote
27 juni 1996 · 30 min
Remote (Knopf)
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Nicholson Baker
20 juni 1996 · 30 min
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Random House)
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Duff Brenna and Jennifer Egan
13 juni 1996 · 29 min
Duff Brenna: The Holy Book of the Beard and Jennifer Egan: Emerald City and Other Stories
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Jane Smiley
6 juni 1996 · 30 min
Moo (Ballantine)
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Hans Magnus Enzenberger
30 mei 1996 · 30 min
Hans Magnus Enzenberger Civil Wars (The New Press) The eminent German poet and culture critic explores the future of literacy and literary culture. A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.
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Zamora Zinmark
23 mei 1996 · 30 min
Zamora Zinmark Rolling the R's (Kaya Production) A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.