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1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Yellow Bay Workshop
16 mei 1996 · 29 min
Yellow Bay Writer's Workshop Bill Kitteredge and Annick Smicth, the founding directors of the Yellow Bay Writer's Workshop in Montana, tell about what goes on at one of the most spirited summer writing workshops in America.
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Mark Doty
2 mei 1996 · 29 min
Mark Doty Heaven's Coast, Atlantis (Harper Collins) Poet Mark Doty's memoir is an expression of grief over his lover's death. How do prose and poetry compare as vehicles for emotion?
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William Kittredge
25 april 1996 · 30 min
Who Owns the West? William Kittredge, the big-hearted, grouchy guru of the literary non-fiction movement, talks about the American West and good writing.
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Ron Hansen
18 april 1996 · 29 min
Atticus Ron Hansen has written a noir novel with theological underpinnings. Is the moral novelist a moral man?
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David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
11 april 1996 · 30 min
David Foster Wallace has written the ultimate mega-meta novel, a 1078-page whopper. The surprise is that this mind-stunner may capture the imagination of a new generation of readers.
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Jeff Noon
4 april 1996 · 30 min
Pollen Adventures in cyberspace. A first--Bookworm goes sci.fi. with the author of Vurt! Is there a boundary between science fiction and literature?
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Robert Hass
30 maart 1996 · 29 min
Human Wishes After an analysis of the role that pleasure and pain play in his poetry, our poet laureate discusses contemporary literary criticism.
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Alan Lightman
23 maart 1996 · 27 min
Good Benito; Einstein's Dreams Lightman discusses loneliness: the curse of the scientist and the rest of us, as well.
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Dale Peck
16 maart 1996 · 29 min
The Law of Enclosures A discussion about the strategies of structure--how Peck disassembles chronology to tell the story of an unhappy marriage.
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Oscar Hijuelos
9 maart 1996 · 29 min
Mr. Ives' Christmas Lees meer
Oscar Hijuelos on the difficulty of writing a contemporary tale of faith.
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Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh
2 maart 1996 · 30 min
The Moor's Last Sigh Lees meer
Part I: The focus is on Salman Rushdie's writing: its themes, structures, techniques and styles. The subjects include mothers, love, cartoons, James Joyce and, only occasionally, the fatwa.
Part II: Rushdie on the art of layering: the organization of the swarms of characters, stories and styles that crawl, teem and fly through The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Ron Padgett and Garrett White on Blaise Cendrars
24 februari 1996 · 30 min
Translators Ron Padgett and Garrett White on the work of the rip-roaring, fire-snorting French poet, Blaise Cendrars.
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Barry Unsworth
17 februari 1996 · 30 min
Morality Play History and fiction-writing. The Booker Prize winner talks about how he uses the past as a commentary on the present.
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Philip Graham
10 februari 1996 · 30 min
How to Read an Unwritten Language Graham began by writing prose poems, graduated to short stories and has no produced a novel. It's a special sort of a novel--mystical, philosophical and respectful of the language of inanimate objects.
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Jack Gilbert
27 januari 1996 · 30 min
The Great Fires:Poems 1982-1992The poet and adult passion: An improvisation on the nature of love, poetry's moral function and the finality of death.
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Norman Mailer
20 januari 1996 · 30 min
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man Lees meer
Norman Mailer's examination of Picasso provokes a discussion of three Mailer obsessions: women, art and crime.
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Joyce Carol Oates: Zombie and What I Lived For
13 januari 1996 · 30 min
In two new novels, Joyce Carol Oates has created disturbing male narrators. How do such dark creations affect the author's life?
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Amy Tan
9 januari 1996 · 30 min
The Hundred Secret Senses Lees meer
Amy Tan, an instinctual writer, discusses the gradual steps she has taken toward mastering the craft of novel-writing.
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Theodore Roszak: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
28 december 1995 · 29 min
The politics of gender. When Theodore Roszak re-writes Mary Shelly, is he committing an act of gender aggression?
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Rick Moody: The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven
25 december 1995 · 29 min
A conversation with Rick Moody about the literary values of Generation X.
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Kaye Gibbons
18 december 1995 · 29 min
Kaye Gibbons Sights Unseen (Putnam) A child searches for its mother in three of Kaye Gibbon's novels. What is the significance of these quests?
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Jay Gummerman
20 november 1995 · 30 min
Jay Gummerman Chez Chance (Pantheon) Gummerman speaks about the lives of the disenfranchised dreamers in this, his first novel.
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Mary Karr
13 november 1995 · 30 min
The Liar's Club The award-winning poet discusses the structure of her autobiography. Does her poet---s ear affect the telling of a life?
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Ann Beattie: Another You
6 november 1995 · 30 min
Another You is Ann Beattie's richest, most-complex novel to date...
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Rikki Ducornet
30 oktober 1995 · 29 min
Phosphor in Dreamland An exploration of the underside of fantasy: its politics, psycho-sexual elements and its internal geography.
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Helena Maria Viramontes
23 oktober 1995 · 30 min
Under the Feet of Jesus Viramontes talks about the Latina writer's obligation to choose art and truth over political correctness.
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Sherman Alexie
16 oktober 1995 · 30 min
Reservation Blues The hip young novelist on his desire for fame, accessibility and rock stardom.
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Stephen Dixon
9 oktober 1995 · 29 min
Interstate An interview about emotion in fiction. Dixon discusses his Dostoyevskyan ambition to render his complex extremity of feeling about the death of a fictional child.
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Michael Ryan
2 oktober 1995 · 30 min
Secret Life The poet discusses the difficulties of writing accurately and artistically about his ongoing recovery from sexually obsessive behavior.
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Mark Helprin
25 september 1995 · 29 min
Memoir from Antproof Case Lees meer
Mark Helprin on the legacy of fathers...
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Peter Ackroyd
18 september 1995 · 30 min
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree Penny-dreadfuls, transvestitism, the English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey and Grand Guignol are touched on in this conversation about the underside of the Victorian Age.
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Richard Ford
11 september 1995 · 30 min
Independence Day Lees meer
In this conversation about one novelist's development, Richard Ford describes the emotional confidence he needed to complete his break-through novel.
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Ana Castillo
4 september 1995 · 30 min
My Father Was a Toltec The barriers of language, ethnicity, class and gender: the challenges faced by a Latina writer.
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Betty Comden
28 augustus 1995 · 29 min
Off Stage Betty Comden who, with Adolph Green, his written for some of the theater's great clowns--Phil Silvers, Bert Lahr, Judy Holliday, Rosalind Russell, Nancy Walker--discusses the art of the musical comedy lyric.
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Russell Banks: Rule of the Bone
21 augustus 1995 · 30 min
This novel of punk-adolescence recalls the great American coming-of-age novels. In the examination of the voice of Bank's hero, homage is paid to his literary ancestor--Huck Finn...
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Norman Mailer
10 augustus 1995 · 29 min
Oswald's Tale Lees meer
Norman Mailer on the skills a novelist brings to the assembly of a historical record...
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Eduardo Galeano
7 augustus 1995 · 30 min
(Getty Series) Galeano discusses journalism, testimony, folklore and history-writing. He shows how each reveals a facet of the life of the writer-revolutionary.
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Anchee Min
31 juli 1995 · 30 min
(Getty Series) The author talks about the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and her quest to discover a way to write truthfully about Mao's China.
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Greg Sarris & Dorothy Allison
24 juli 1995 · 30 min
(Getty Series) A conversation about "Them;" and "Us.;" Allison and Sarris talk about illegitimacy and the status of the "outsider;" in both American culture and autobiographical writing.
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Isabel Allende
17 juli 1995 · 29 min
History, imagination and memory: Allende states that she does not make a distinction between reality and imagination and then discusses their fusion in her work. (Getty Series)
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Quincy Troupe
10 juli 1995 · 29 min
(Getty Series)Troupe, who co-authored the controversial, award-winning autobiography of Miles Davis, speaks about the process of inhabiting another person's memories. He explores music as a structuring principle of memory and reveals the musical origins of his own poetry. Lees meer
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Sandra Cisneros
3 juli 1995 · 29 min
(Getty Series) Cisneros describes an autobiographical childhood incident and demonstrates how she transformed it into her most popular short story, "Eleven.;"
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A. S. Byatt
26 juni 1995 · 30 min
The Matisse Stories Lees meer
Author A.S. Byatt defends art-for-art's-sake against the incursions of multi-cultural politics.
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Carolyn See
19 juni 1995 · 30 min
Dreaming A nuts-and-bolts conversation about truth-telling and family history.
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Bradford Morrow
12 juni 1995 · 29 min
Trinity Fields A conversation about secrets--political, personal and spiritual--and how they drive a story.
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Michael Chabon
29 mei 1995 · 30 min
Wonder Boys Lees meer
Young Michael Chabon discusses his feelings about the blocked, frustrated writers and editors who people his new novel...
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Mary Woronov & Ronald Tavel
22 mei 1995 · 30 min
After Warhol: Two survivors of the original Warhol Underground Films (Chelsea Girls, Vinyl, Kitchenette, etc.) discuss artistic life after Andy.
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Steve Dickison
15 mei 1995 · 30 min
(marketing manager of Small Press Distribution) How to find out about the vibrant writers emerging today? How to find their books? A conversation with someone who knows the answers--about small presses and how they fit into the current book-selling scene. Lees meer
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David Bowman
8 mei 1995 · 30 min
Let the Dog Drive The author's indefatigable adventures drove his wild book from the obscurity of an unknown press to cult status and major-league paperback publication.
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Sandra Cisneros: Loose Woman
1 mei 1995 · 30 min
Poetry, memory and the Chicana writer. Author Sandra Cisneros talks about identity, the sexual revolution and self-motivation.