Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Kirkpatrick Sale and Robert Shapazian
3 februari 1992 · 29 min
The Conquest Of Paradise:(Director of Lapis Press)Sale, the radical, historian and ecologist, examines the myths of Christopher Columbus and the New World. Robert Shapazian talks about creating books as art objects.
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Erica Taylor and Helen Schulman
20 januari 1992 · 28 min
The Sun Maiden:Out of Time Two talented young novelists discuss their first novels. The Sun Maiden is a futuristic novel about Los Angeles; Out Of Time, a moving, psychological story, is about the death of a young man.
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Norman Rush
13 januari 1992 · 29 min
MatingThe winner of the 1991 National Book Award discusses his zany novel about feminism, Africa and anthropology.
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Ken Siman and Bruce Wagner
6 januari 1992 · 30 min
Pizza Face:Force Majeure Ken Siman writes about the trauma of being adolescent, gay and acneed. Bruce Wagner experiences the dementia of the half-life of the Hollywood screenwriter.
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Harold Brodkey Part 1
23 december 1991 · 30 min
The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.
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Judith Freeman
16 december 1991 · 30 min
Set For LifeThe writer discusses her novel about passion and American right-wing conspiracies.
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Norman Mailer, Part 2
9 december 1991 · 30 min
Harlot's Ghost Lees meer
Norman Mailer in the second of a two-part interview on Harlot's Ghost and other matters.
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Norman Mailer, Part 1
2 december 1991 · 30 min
Harlot's Ghost Lees meer
Norman Mailer in a two-part interview on Harlot's Ghost and other matters.
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Russell Banks: The Sweet Hereafter
26 november 1991 · 30 min
The author talks about grief in the art of fiction...
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David Michael Kaplan
19 november 1991 · 31 min
Skating In The Dark A moving novel, in stories, about a man learning to handle his fears--of relationships, of intimacy and of experience.
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Pauline Kael
12 november 1991 · 29 min
Michael Silverblatt and a young Los Angeles writer, Chuck Wilson, talk with Pauline Kael about her book, Movie Love.
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Stephen Dobyns
5 november 1991 · 29 min
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Blanche Boyd
29 oktober 1991 · 30 min
The Revolution of Little GirlsNovelist and lesbian Blanche Boyd discusses childhood and writing.
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Bradford Morrow
22 oktober 1991 · 30 min
The Almanac Branch The editor of Conjunctions, the post-modern literary magazine, discusses the techniques and strategies of his recent novel.
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Martin Duberman
8 oktober 1991 · 30 min
Cures The historian's autobiography deals with homosexuality and psychoanalysis in the America of the 1950's and 60's.
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Mark Helprin
24 september 1991 · 31 min
A Soldier of the Great War Lees meer
Mark Helprin writes about aesthetics, war and love in his new novel set in Italy during World War I.
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Amy Tan
3 september 1991 · 31 min
The Kitchen God's Wife; The Joy Luck Club Lees meer
As author Amy Tan examines the image of the passive, compliant, Asian-American woman, she reveals some personal secrets.
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Whitney Otto
26 augustus 1991 · 30 min
Wall To WallThe author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.
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Mary Morris
13 augustus 1991 · 29 min
Wall To Wall The author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.
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Nicholson Baker
6 augustus 1991 · 29 min
U and I
Nicholson Baker, the American chronicler of berserk technology talks about his imaginary friendship with John Updike. -
Mark Lapin and Varley O'Conner
30 juli 1991 · 30 min
Pledge of Allegiance; Like ChinaTwo first novelists, currently living in California, discuss their books: Lapin's, about the McCarthy era and O'Connor's, about domestic violence.
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Galway Kinnell
23 juli 1991 · 31 min
When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone The poet discusses the solitude necessary for poetry and the ways in which the imagination keeps us from suicide.
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Edwardo Galeano
16 juli 1991 · 30 min
The Book of Embraces The South American surrealist turns from the terror of American history to dreams and visionary prose.
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Joy Williams: Escapes
9 juli 1991 · 30 min
One of the great writers of contemporary short stories in the Flannery O'Connor tradition, Joy Williams writes about salvation, damnation and the rot of modern culture
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Charles Palliser
2 juli 1991 · 29 min
Quincunx; The Sensationist The author of an enormous modern Victorian novel (Quincunx) speaks about his new work, The Sensationist, a brief, mysterious book about lust and disappearance
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John Sayles: Los Gusanos
25 juni 1991 · 30 min
Writer-director John Sayles discusses the creative process and the politics shaping his novel about the Cubano exile in Florida.
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Lynn Tillman
18 juni 1991 · 30 min
Motion Sickness The brilliant combination of the post-modern and the mundane animates the tone of this theoretical New Narrative.
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Georgia Savage
11 juni 1991 · 29 min
The House Tibet This book about runaways, romance and incest is the first American publication of a breakthrough Australian novelist
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Allan Gurganus: White People and Oldest Living Confederate Widow...
4 juni 1991 · 29 min
Alan Gurganus talks about his friendship with John Cheever and the use of autobiography in fiction--and life.
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William Joyce
21 mei 1991 · 30 min
Dinosaur Bob; A Day With Wilbur Robinson William Joyce's picture books combine art nouveau and dinosaurs, 30's jazz and Dashiell Hammett.
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Jonathan Carroll
14 mei 1991 · 30 min
Bones of the Moon; Sleeping in Flame Lees meer
Carroll blends post-modernism, children's literature and science fiction to create wholly-original novels.
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Joyce Carol Oates: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
7 mei 1991 · 28 min
Dark, passionate realist Oates' new novel explores inter-racial obsession.
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Susan Compo and Susan Straight
30 april 1991 · 30 min
Authors Susan Compo and Susan Straight discuss their novels: Life after Death and Aquaboogie. A special show contrasting two California writers Compo details Melrose punk; Straight describes the multi-racial Riverside community in which she lives.
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Jane DeLynn
23 april 1991 · 29 min
Don Juan In The Village International philosophical and sexual escapades of a fiction- writing lesbian.
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Tim Cahill
16 april 1991 · 30 min
Road Fever Mad-dog adventurer travels from the tip of South America to the Arctic, breaking the Guinness World Record
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Ted Mooney
9 april 1991 · 30 min
Traffic and Laughter; Easy Travel To Other Planets A novelist of futuristic dislocations.
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Barry Lopez
2 april 1991 · 30 min
Crow And Weasel The naturalist has written a children's book based on American Indian and ecological themes.
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Diane Wood Middlebrook and Ann Lauterbach
23 maart 1991 · 30 min
Ann Sexton; Clamor Lees meer
Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses Ann Sexton's life as revealed in her biography. Ann Lauterbach answers the Bookworm's questions about how to understand her poetry.
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William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown
19 maart 1991 · 30 min
The Ice Shirt and Big Bad Love Lees meer
William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown discuss their novels: Vollmann's The Ice Shirt is a vast historical fantasy inspired by Icelandic sagas. Widely admired Southern short-story writer Brown is the author of Big Bad Love.
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Michael Cunningham
12 maart 1991 · 31 min
A Home At The End Of The World
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Isabel Allende: The Stories of Eva Luna
5 maart 1991 · 29 min
The Stories of Eva Luna (Scribner)
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Anne Rice
8 januari 1991 · 30 min
The Witching Hour; Interview With A Vampire The queen of the supernaturals.
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Sandra Cisneros
1 januari 1991 · 30 min
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Allan Gurganus and Susan Chehak
11 december 1990 · 31 min
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All; Harmony Lees meer
First a conversation with Alan Gurganus, then with novelist Susan
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Edna O'Brien
4 december 1990 · 31 min
Lantern Slides
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Stephen Pett and Geoffrey Wolfe
27 november 1990 · 29 min
Sirens;The Final Club
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Mario Vargas Llosa
20 november 1990 · 30 min
Mario Vargas Llosa discusses In Praise of the Stepmother; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The War at End the of World.
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Michelle Latiolais
13 november 1990 · 29 min
Even Now
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Kazou Ishiguro: three novels
6 november 1990 · 29 min
Kazuo Ishiguro discusses three of his novels: The Remains of the Day, A Pale View of the Hills and An Artist of the Floating World.
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David Leavitt; Alan Barnett
30 oktober 1990 · 30 min
A Place I've Never Been;The Body and Its Dangers