Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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James Kelman
24 april 1995 · 30 min
How Late It Was, How LateThe Scottish novelist whose recent book won the Booker Prize discusses current Scottish literature, the influence of the supernatural story and the fiction of the lower class.
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James Kelman
23 april 1995 · 30 min
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John McPhee
17 april 1995 · 30 min
Assembling California; The Ransom of Russian Art Lees meer
Essayist John McPhee talks about the essay as literature.
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Paul West
10 april 1995 · 29 min
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Cees Nooteboom
3 april 1995 · 30 min
The Following Story Lees meer
Death and metamorphosis play important roles in Cees Nooteboom's award-winning new novel...
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Wilfredo Nolledo
27 maart 1995 · 30 min
But for the Lovers Nolledo---s long-out-of-print cult novel has been republished, provoking a conversation about literary destiny, and the complex position of a Philippine-born novelist writing in America.
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Gioconda Belli
20 maart 1995 · 30 min
The Inhabited Woman Activism, magic realism, Pablo Neruda, incantation, politics and history in the work of Gioconda Belli.
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William H. Gass: The Tunnel
13 maart 1995 · 30 min
Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.
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Ian Frazier
6 maart 1995 · 29 min
Family In this conversation about autobiography, history and the texture of memory, the author discusses the dangers he faced in using a passionate, sincere style.
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Thom Gunn
27 februari 1995 · 30 min
Collected Poems The award-winning poet reads from his work and discusses the formal structures behind his informal subject matter.
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John Gregory Dunne
20 februari 1995 · 30 min
Playland Lees meer
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What has happened to innocence? A discussion of power and victimization in the thrillers of John Gregory Dunne.
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Art Spiegelman
13 februari 1995 · 29 min
The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March (Pantheon Books)
A talk -- about illustration and jazz-age poetry; political correctness and eroticism -- with the Pulitzer prize winning author of Maus. -
John Edgar Wideman
6 februari 1995 · 30 min
Fatheralong The author on memory, paternity and ethnicity.
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Tim O---Brien
30 januari 1995 · 30 min
In the Lake of the Woods An argument: Who tells the story--the politician, the novelist or the killer?
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Bret Easton Ellis
23 januari 1995 · 30 min
The Informers Host Michael Silverblatt and author Ellis agree to avoid controversy and content, and instead discuss style, character, intention and technique.
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Anne Lamott
16 januari 1995 · 30 min
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life The lovable Anne Lamott reveals the techniques she uses to teach fiction to writers who are beginning to face creative and emotional blocks.
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Fran Lebowitz
9 januari 1995 · 30 min
The Fran Lebowitz Reader On American humor: James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Dawn Powell--plus a digression on humorists who write children---s books.
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Doris Lessing: Under My Skin
2 januari 1995 · 30 min
A discussion of autobiography: Doris Lessing on self, memory and history.
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Ned Rorem
26 december 1994 · 29 min
Knowing When to Stop A demanding conversation with a modern composer about setting poetry to music, featuring a love duet with text by Frank O---Hara.
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Joseph Heller
19 december 1994 · 30 min
Closing Time Has Yossarian sold out? Can a sequel to Catch-22 be written? How does Heller feel about the fate of his later novels?
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Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls
12 december 1994 · 29 min
A conversation about personal voice, sexuality and the New York school of poetry.
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Louis de Bernières
5 december 1994 · 29 min
Corelli's Mandolin Lees meer
A discussion about having it both ways: How Louis de Bernières maintains the passion of the traditional novel while exploring the complexities of post-modernism...
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Benjamin Weissman
28 november 1994 · 29 min
Dear Dead Person Lees meer
Violence, comedy, style, the influence of modern German literature and the importance of extremity are today's subjects in our conversation with Benjamin Weissman.
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Pauline Kael
21 november 1994 · 30 min
For Keeps America---s greatest pop-culture critic talks about her new collection of movie reviews--a retrospective of a lifetime of passionate response.
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Susan Straight
24 oktober 1994 · 29 min
Blacker than a Thousand Midnights
Straight talks about mothering by day, writing deep into the night, and knowing enough to see into the life of a young, black father. -
Howard Norman
17 oktober 1994 · 29 min
The Bird Artist Lees meer
Howard Norman's new novel about fatal romance and aesthetic distance has surprised critics and attracted a wide audience.
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Erica Jong: Fear of Fifty
10 oktober 1994 · 30 min
The writer discusses the evolution of her style and explores the gulf between political correctness and personal behavior.
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E. L. Doctorow
3 oktober 1994 · 30 min
The Waterworks Lees meer
A discussion of the morality of mad scientists, New York history, and the evolution of the plot of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel.
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Ron Sukenick
26 september 1994 · 30 min
Doggie Bag The fictional avante garde, its present and future, discussed by one of its longest standing practitioners.
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Rick Moody: The Ice Storm
19 september 1994 · 30 min
Rick Moody's novel of the seventies provokes a discussion of the relationship between literary fiction and the marketplace.
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Craig Nova
12 september 1994 · 30 min
The Book of Dreams Lees meer
Craig Nova discusses the tough guy and ---noir--- novel as points of origin for his dark investigation of the California dream.
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Dennis McFarland
29 augustus 1994 · 29 min
School for the Blind Grief, suicide and death are central to Dennis McFarland---s fiction; in this interview he examines some of the reasons why.
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Aram Saroyan
15 augustus 1994 · 30 min
Editor, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan The late Ted Berrigan---s influence on the New York School of Poets is discussed by his friend and editor.
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Carol Edgarian
8 augustus 1994 · 30 min
Rise the Euphrates The Armenian genocide provides the background for this multi-generational first-novel.
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Whitney Otto
1 augustus 1994 · 30 min
Now You See Her Aging and its metaphors are discussed by the author of How to Make an American Quilt.
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Dennis Cooper
25 juli 1994 · 29 min
Try Lees meer
Novelist Dennis Cooper discusses the aesthetics of violence and pornography and the special syntax of Generation X.
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Jane Hirshfield
18 juli 1994 · 30 min
The October Palace; Women in Praise of the Sacred Devotional literature, Buddhism, and the relationship between poetry and personal theology are discussed by the poet-anthologist.
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Caleb Carr
11 juli 1994 · 30 min
The Alienist The development of American psychology at the turn of the century is the intellectual linchpin of this popular thriller.
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Carlos Fuentes
27 juni 1994 · 30 min
The Orange Tree Lees meer
Noted intellectual and diplomat Carlos Fuentes explores eroticism in fiction.
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Jim Harrison
20 juni 1994 · 30 min
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Daniel Halpern
13 juni 1994 · 29 min
Editor, Antaeus magazine Halpern talks about the life history of a literary magazine--and his own collected poetry.
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Valerie Martin
6 juni 1994 · 28 min
The Great Divorce The writer discusses her complete works, from her early interest in depression and neurosis to her current interest in metamorphosis and transformation.
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Caryl Phillips
30 mei 1994 · 30 min
Crossing the River Slavery is the controlling theme in this discussion of history, family and the African-American experience.
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Robert Olen Butler
23 mei 1994 · 30 min
They Whisper The politics of gender in fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Butler discusses the difficulties surrounding a male writer---s creation of female desires and fantasies.
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June Jordan
16 mei 1994 · 30 min
Haruko/Love Poems; Technical Difficulties The author talks about the relationship between her essays and her poetry--that is, the contradictions between political progressivism and personal truth-telling.
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Louis Jones
9 mei 1994 · 30 min
Particles and Luck Modern science and its implications for the fiction-writer: how metaphors from physics and chemistry have shaped Louis Jones--- new novel.
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Ethan Canin
2 mei 1994 · 30 min
The Palace Thief Lees meer
Author Ethan Canin discusses his inclination to avoid writer's tricks as he matures in his craft...
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Nicholson Baker
25 april 1994 · 31 min
The Fermata
Writer Nicholson Baker expresses his surprise at the shock with which critics have greeted this novel, in which a young man discovers that he can stop time. Sexuality, regression, ---mobius-strip--- personality structures and infantile fantasy all play a part in the discussion. Lees meer -
Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, Part II
18 april 1994 · 30 min
In the second of this two-part conversation, novelist Margaret Atwood takes relates women found in poetry, fable and religion to contemporary feminist narrative.
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Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, Part I
11 april 1994 · 30 min
Author Margaret Atwood discusses her literary origins--fairy tales and romantic literature -- and The Robber Bride in the first of this two-part conversation.