Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Carolyn Chute
4 april 1994 · 30 min
Merry Men The author of The Beans of Egypt Maine examines her development, tracing her attitudes toward poverty, politics and the writing of fiction.
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Bob Ward
28 maart 1994 · 30 min
King of Cards Identity-formation and adolescent rites of passage are the themes of Ward---s fast-paced novel.
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Stephen Wright
21 maart 1994 · 30 min
Going Native, Part II Lees meer
Author Stephen Wright talks about the influence of the Black Humorists of the 1960's on his explosive 90's breakthrough novel.
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Stephen Wright
14 maart 1994 · 30 min
Going Native, Part I Lees meer
Drugs, violence and cartoons--in the novel by Stephen Wright that Bookworm nominates as the best of this season.
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Bharati Mukherjee
7 maart 1994 · 30 min
The Holder of the World A discussion of multiculturalism, patriarchal literature and formal experimentation.
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Paul Kafka and David Matlin
28 februari 1994 · 29 min
Love Enter; How the Night is Divided Two first-novelists discuss their first publications.
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Rudolph Wurlitzer
21 februari 1994 · 30 min
Little Buddha Lees meer
The experimental novelist of the sixties and seventies (Nog, Flats and Quake) discusses his screenwriting, from Two Lane Blacktop to Little Buddha, and the degeneration of experimental art goals in the nineties.
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Edmund White: Jean Genet (Part II)
14 februari 1994 · 30 min
The author traces his fiction-writing career from the artistic aspirations of Forgetting Elena to the sexual politics of The Beautiful Room is Empty.
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Edmund White: Jean Genet (Part I)
7 februari 1994 · 30 min
Edmund White's biography reopens the questions of aesthetics and criminality in the life of French writer Jean Genet.
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Matthew Stadler
31 januari 1994 · 30 min
The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee Matthew Stadler explores the role that obsession can play in developing the structure of a post-modern novel.
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Amos Oz
24 januari 1994 · 30 min
Fima This sad-sack, Israeli Hamlet, is examined under the opposing lights of comedy and tragedy.
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Frank Conroy
10 januari 1994 · 30 min
Body and Soul Conroy, who suffered a major writer---s block, discusses his novel about a vastly successful pianist-composer. Did writing about a successful artist break the block?
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A. M. Homes
3 januari 1994 · 30 min
In A Country of Mothers The author talks about perversity and normality in her work.
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T. C. Boyle
27 december 1993 · 31 min
The Road to Wellville Lees meer
(Viking)
Hypocrisy, health food, ordure and the morality of fiction are the subjects of today's discussion.
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Gordon Lish
20 december 1993 · 30 min
Part II: The madman of contemporary fiction examines his influences: Beckett, Harold Bloom, Thomas Bernhart, J.D. Salinger, et al.
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Gordon Lish
12 december 1993 · 30 min
Zim Zum Part I: "Captain Fiction" talks abut the fiction he writes, the fiction he edits (at Alfred Knopf) and his career as a magazine editor (Esquire).
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Bobbie Ann Mason
6 december 1993 · 30 min
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Peter Levitt
29 november 1993 · 30 min
Bright Root, Dark Root The Los Angeles-based poet talks about Buddhism, spirituality and a poet's vocation.
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Charlie Smith
22 november 1993 · 30 min
Chimney Rock The author defends the dream-like projections of Los Angeles in his most recent novel.
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Bernard Cooper
8 november 1993 · 30 min
A Year of Rhymes A first novel by a prize-winning poetic essayist: The writer discusses his turn to fiction, weather and death, and his interest in simplicity and sincerity.
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Harriet Doerr
1 november 1993 · 30 min
Consider This, Senora The best-selling novelist talks about writing school, writers who have influenced her, and the particular nature of her characters.
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Brad Gooch
25 oktober 1993 · 31 min
City Poet The life and hoopla of the New York poet Frank O'Hara is described by his biographer.
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Joyce Carol Oates: Foxfire
18 oktober 1993 · 31 min
Joyce Carol Oates discusses issues of feminism and narrative strategy in her novel about a girl gang, set in the late 50's.
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Jules Feiffer
11 oktober 1993 · 29 min
The Man in the Ceiling Feiffer talks about The Man in the Ceiling--the first novel for children that he has written as well as illustrated.
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Barbara Kingsolver
4 oktober 1993 · 30 min
Pigs in Heaven Lees meer
Author Barbara Kingsolver discusses political fiction: the novelist's obligation to dramatize insoluble issues without falsely resolving them.
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John Sanford
27 september 1993 · 28 min
Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.
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John Sanford
20 september 1993 · 31 min
Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.
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Sue Miller
13 september 1993 · 30 min
For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.
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James McCourt: Time Remaining
30 augustus 1993 · 30 min
The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.
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Anne Lamott
23 augustus 1993 · 30 min
Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.
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Victor Ereveyev
16 augustus 1993 · 30 min
Part II. Ereveyev, whose work provoked a scandal, discusses Post-Glasnost Soviet Fiction.
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Victor Ereveyev
9 augustus 1993 · 29 min
A Russian Beauty Part I: The Russian Dissident novelist discusses Russian Gothic writing from Gogol on.
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Bob Shacochis
2 augustus 1993 · 30 min
Swimming in the Volcano Michael Silverblatt moderates a conversation on the art of fiction writing between Bob Shacochis and his former student, journalist Jamie Diamond.
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Thomas Kenneally
26 juli 1993 · 30 min
Woman of the Inner Sea The inner journey and transformation of a woman who has endured catastrophe is the subject of the Australian novelist's new book.
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Carolyn Forche
19 juli 1993 · 31 min
Against Forgetting The award-winning poet talks about poetry's role in addressing the political atrocities of our century.
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Oscar Hijuelos: The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
12 juli 1993 · 30 min
Oscar Hijuelos discusses the contrast between the light, happy tone of his new novel and the darkness of his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings.
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Carol Brightman and Kevin McCarthy
28 juni 1993 · 30 min
Writing Dangerously The National Book Critic's Circle Award went to this biography of Mary McCarthy. Biographer Carol Brightman and Mary McCarthy's brother, Kevin McCarthy, reminisce about Mary's literary career.
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Steve Erickson: Arc d'X
21 juni 1993 · 30 min
Novelist /film critic Steve Erickson discusses the unusual narrative strategies that help him to explore the contemporary abyss.
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Rikki Ducornet
14 juni 1993 · 30 min
The Jade Cabinet Fairy tales, dreams and ecological feminism are where this writer's mythic novels originate.
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Mitch Sisskind
7 juni 1993 · 30 min
Dog Man Stories One of the funniest writers in America writes about pit bulls and the men who raise them and talks about the language he uses to write about American cultures.
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Mona Simpson
31 mei 1993 · 30 min
The Lost Father (Vintage) Lees meer
For writer Mona Simpson, the search for family is a spiritual quest...
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Kate Braverman
24 mei 1993 · 30 min
Wonders Of The West Kate Braverman, a sort of high-priestess of fiction, discusses prose as incantation--an instrument for the transformation of reality.
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Dorothy Allison
17 mei 1993 · 29 min
Bastard Out Of Carolina The writer talks about story telling, reality, violence, incest and working-class fiction.
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C.E. Poverman
10 mei 1993 · 30 min
Skin The author describes what a short story is, from inspiration to inner meaning.
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Wayne Koestenbaum
3 mei 1993 · 30 min
The Queen's Throat The author offers a frilly and brilliant analysis of the relationship between opera and homosexuality.
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Michael Annis
26 april 1993 · 30 min
(Editor of Stiletto magazine) Expensive paper, complex typographies and multicolored graphics make Stiletto the most lavish independent literary review published in the United States. Its editor delineates the editorial process.
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John Mortimer
19 april 1993 · 29 min
Dunster The beloved author of the Rumpole books tells how he builds his complex plot structures and examines the basic tools of storytelling.
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Carol Muske
12 april 1993 · 30 min
Red Trousseau The poet explores new functions for metaphor in modern poetry: Can a poet debunk old, harmful mythologies and invent new, positive ones?
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Carol Muske Dukes
5 april 1993 · 29 min
Saving St. Germ Lees meer
Author Carol Muske-Dukes discusses her humorous novel about a scientist who explores the nature of creation, inspiration, nuclear chemistry and feminism.
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Nicholas Meyer
29 maart 1993 · 30 min
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