Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Larry Rivers
22 maart 1993 · 30 min
What Did I Do? The writer talks about art, gossip, sex and immorality in the career of an artist.
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Maureen Howard
15 maart 1993 · 30 min
Natural History Art, history and real life are the subjects of the author's investigation of America.
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Ricardo Cortez Cruz
8 maart 1993 · 30 min
Straight Outta Compton The experimental novelist describes how he constructed his Rap novel.
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Jim Paul
1 maart 1993 · 30 min
Catapult: Harry And I Build A Siege Weapon The essayist discusses his whimsical project: to construct a medieval weapon while on an arts grant and to write a book about the process.
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Curtis White
22 februari 1993 · 30 min
The Idea of Home Lees meer
Invention, surrealism and hilarity are at the center of Curtis White's novel about his home town in California.
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Camille Paglia
15 februari 1993 · 28 min
Sexual Personae; Sex, Art and American Culture Lees meer
Camille Paglia fires at contemporary criticism and literary theory.
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Josephine Hart
8 februari 1993 · 30 min
Sin; Damage The writer examines the nature of guilt, tragedy and obsession.
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Leonard Michaels
1 februari 1993 · 28 min
Sylvia The writer discusses the morality of writing autobiographical fiction, with reference to Sylvia, his memoir about marriage and mental imbalance.
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Mark Leyner
25 januari 1993 · 29 min
Et Tu, Babe The wild and crazy narcissist reads from and explains his exotic fantasy.
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James Ellroy
18 januari 1993 · 29 min
White Jazz The ins and outs of crime fiction are explored by this post- modernist tough guy.
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Paul Auster
11 januari 1993 · 30 min
Leviathan Lees meer
Writer Paul Auster discusses the influence of Kafka and Beckett on his work.
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Maurice Sendak & Iona Opie
4 januari 1993 · 30 min
Brooklyn-born illustrator Maurice Sendak joins British folklorist Iona Opie to discuss the rhymes and taunts of the playground.
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Thomas McGuane: Nothing but Blue Skies
28 december 1992 · 30 min
The writer discusses life in Montana as a literary style.
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Austryn Wainhouse
7 december 1992 · 29 min
(Editor and Publisher of Marlboro Press) Wainhouse, who translated all of the Marquis de Sade, discusses the influence of Sade on literature and morality.
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Tama Janowitz
30 november 1992 · 30 min
Male Crossdressers' Support Group Janowitz continues to gender-bend and cross all boundaries in the lives of her Slaves of New York.
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Bruce McPherson
23 november 1992 · 30 min
(Publisher of McPherson & Co.) McPherson's press has rediscovered the work of Mary Butts, an experimental writer of great value.
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Robert Plunkett
16 november 1992 · 30 min
Sex Junkie Plunkett discusses his farce about the incomprehension between gays and straights
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William Vollmann
9 november 1992 · 29 min
Fathers and Crows Lees meer
Explosive writer William Vollmann talks about savagery and civilization, leveling both.
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Cristina García: Dreaming in Cuban
2 november 1992 · 30 min
Christina García's book Dreaming in Cuban explores three generations of Latina women and their emotional and political involvements.
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Reynolds Price
26 oktober 1992 · 30 min
Blue Calhoun Price talks about the characters in his novel and the function of immorality in fiction.
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Susan Sontag
19 oktober 1992 · 30 min
The Volcano Lover Lees meer
The famed literary intellectual tells about how she came to write a romance.
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William Kennedy
5 oktober 1992 · 30 min
Very Old Bones; Ironweed Lees meer
Writer William Kennedy discusses the hidden structure of the novels in his Albany Cycle.
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Gilbert Sorrentino and Kelvin Christopher James
28 september 1992 · 29 min
Under the Shadow; Jumping Ship Lees meer
The inimitable Gilbert Sorrentino on the secret structures of his new novel. Kelvin James on his travels from Jamaica to New York and their expression in his writing.
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Alexander Theroux
21 september 1992 · 30 min
Darconville's Cat Polymath Theroux discusses his masterpiece in the light of the decline of Western culture.
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Richard Bausch
14 september 1992 · 30 min
Violence The minimalist discusses his novel of gathering domestic violence.
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Kathy Acker
31 augustus 1992 · 29 min
Portrait Of An Eye The terrifying post-punk novelist defines the aesthetics behind her radical stance.
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Alice Walker
24 augustus 1992 · 30 min
Possessing The Secret Of Joy
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Richard Elman
10 augustus 1992 · 30 min
Tar Beach Tribal Africa is superimposed on the Jewish Brooklyn of the late forties in this coming-of-age novel.
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Susan Straight
3 augustus 1992 · 29 min
I Been in Sorrows Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
Author Susan Straight discusses her new novel and the impact of violence on her, her writing and the multi-racial Riverside community in which she lives -
Robert Stone
27 juli 1992 · 30 min
Outerbridge Reach Lees meer
Robert Stone examines the possibilities of modern heroism.
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Alice McDermott: At Weddings and Wakes
20 juli 1992 · 30 min
Author Alice McDermott discusses her darkly-tender, Irish-Catholic family novel--its structure and its meaning.
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Diana Darling and Bradford Morrow
6 juli 1992 · 30 min
Diana Darling's charming first novel is about the intrigues of Gods and humans on the island of Bali. Bradford Morrow celebrates the anniversary of his magazine, with a special issue on folktales, fairy tales and myths.
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Alan Kurzweil
29 juni 1992 · 29 min
A Case of Curiosities A young writer from Harvard reveals how to research an historical novel.
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Debra Eisenberg
22 juni 1992 · 30 min
Under the 82nd Airborne Lees meer
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Short story writer Debra Eisenberg discusses the mystery of how she writes.
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Carlos Fuentes
15 juni 1992 · 30 min
The Buried Mirror Lees meer
Carlos Fuentes on international literature and the Latin American writer.
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Martin Amis: Time's Arrow
8 juni 1992 · 30 min
Time's Arrow Lees meer
The rude Londoner, Martin Amis, talks about morality and fiction.
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Matthew Stadler
1 juni 1992 · 30 min
Landscape Memory A young, gay novelist speaks about aesthetics.
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Jane Smiley
26 mei 1992 · 29 min
A Thousand Acres Lees meer
Jane Smiley's award-winning author discusses feminism, the problems of the American farmer and the aesthetics of fiction.
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Maurice Sendak
18 mei 1992 · 30 min
The beloved author of Where The Wild Things Are talks about The Nutcracker, and the process of writing a book that became a classic.
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William Styron
11 mei 1992 · 30 min
Darkness Visible; Sophie's Choice Styron on depression and the vileness of the world. He tells what it's like to kill off his favorite characters and survive.
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Nicholson Baker
4 mei 1992 · 30 min
Vox Lees meer
Nicholson Baker, the author of this best-seller, talks about intimacy, sentimentality, morality and sexuality. Sparks fly!
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M. Mark
27 april 1992 · 30 min
(editor of The Voice Literary Supplement and the anthology, Disorderly Conduct) The literary editor discusses her years as editor of the very modern and unconventional Voice Literary Supplement-- probably the most-exciting book review in America.
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Patrick McGrath
20 april 1992 · 30 min
Spider; The New Gothic Patrick McGrath is attempting to revive the Gothic Novel. Is he riding the coattails of Stephen King and Clive Barker, or is he inventing a new kind of terror?
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Leslie Marmon Silko: The Almanac of the Dead
13 april 1992 · 30 min
The Almanac of the Dead Lees meer
The visionary nightmare novel took of Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko years to write. Today, she talks about the difficulty of living while writing a bleak American novel.
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David Rieff
6 april 1992 · 27 min
LA., Capital Of The World The writer discusses L.A.'s future and, autobiographically, what it's like to grow up as the son of one of the world's most-prominent literary intellectuals
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Julian Barnes
30 maart 1992 · 30 min
The British novelist talks about love and the creation of character in fiction.
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Denis Johnson
16 maart 1992 · 30 min
Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man The poet and novelist speaks about evil, darkness and depression.
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A. S. Byatt
9 maart 1992 · 30 min
Possession Lees meer
Renowned author A.S. Byatt reveals the aesthetic theory behind her fiction.
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Sam Halpert
2 maart 1992 · 29 min
(editor of When We Talk About Raymond Carver) Halpert discusses the late Raymond Carver and his legacy.
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Art Spiegelman
10 februari 1992 · 30 min
Maus II
Writer Art Spiegelman discusses his comic-book memoir of his father and the holocaust.