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Howard Rodman: The Great Eastern
1 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Literary legends Captain Ahab and Captain Nemo are pitted against each other by real life engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Howard Rodman’s The Great Eastern.
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Ariana Reines: A Sand Book
19 juli 2019 · 30 min
The poetry in Ariana Reines's A Sand Book is centered around the theme of hiding: running away and trying to escape.
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Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
18 juli 2019 · 30 min
Ocean Vuong speaks of leaving his thumbprint within his new novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
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David Trinidad, Amy Gerstler, Ruth Greenstein: Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
11 juli 2019 · 30 min
Editor/poet David Trinidad, poet Amy Gerstler, and publisher Ruth Greenstein reflect on the dynamic mind behind Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith.
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David Trinidad: Swinging on a Star
27 juni 2019 · 30 min
David Trinidad’s Swinging on a Star is a two-part collection of poems that put the human in pop culture.
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Laila Lalami: The Other Americans
20 juni 2019 · 30 min
Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is a polyphonic novel about social class and identity, with a revelation in every chapter.
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Seth: Clyde Fans
13 juni 2019 · 30 min
A stunning graphic novel by one of the medium’s greatest creators, Seth’s Clyde Fans is about people living in a memory fog, and the strange reverie that life takes on when one grows older.
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Ann Beattie: A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
6 juni 2019 · 30 min
Ben’s life falls down around him, and he’s the protagonist, in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, by master writer Ann Beattie.
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Dave Eggers: The Parade
30 mei 2019 · 30 min
The Parade, by Dave Eggers, is a book of creeping dread, where every worst thing is possible, and rational reason leads one to expect that the worst is not over.
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Richard Powers: The Overstory
23 mei 2019 · 30 min
About the interdependence between humans and trees, Richard Powers found a place for the non-human in literary fiction with his new book, The Overstory.
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Terrance Hayes: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
16 mei 2019 · 30 min
Seventy sonnets written in the first two hundred days of Trump's presidency, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes, flies out of the cages of literary, cultural, and historical forms. Warning: Today's episode contains strong language that some listeners may find offensive. Lees meer
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Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People
9 mei 2019 · 30 min
The stories in Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, try to capture what’s human in what otherwise may only be trends.
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Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
2 mei 2019 · 30 min
Her fourth book, which took her six years to write, An American Marriage brought Tayari Jones to the attention of Oprah’s Book Club.
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John Lanchester: The Wall
25 april 2019 · 30 min
John Lanchester’s The Wall is a wild love story with a dystopian backdrop.
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Nathan Englander: kaddish.com
18 april 2019 · 30 min
In Nathan Englander’s kaddish.com, a secular Jewish son experiments with the task of shepherding his father’s soul safely to rest.
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Chris Cander: The Weight of a Piano
11 april 2019 · 30 min
Chris Cander’s The Weight of a Piano explores characters with passionate attachments to things that have been lost.
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Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive
4 april 2019 · 30 min
Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive tells the story of a family by combining the American road trip subgenre with the Latin American tradition of an inward journey.
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Elizabeth McCracken: Bowlaway
28 maart 2019 · 30 min
Her nature oppositional, Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway is a sad, funny, hilarious, and melancholic novel.
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Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End
21 maart 2019 · 30 min
In Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End, a mother discovers a place where she can talk to her son who committed suicide.
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Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star Trilogy
14 maart 2019 · 30 min
Marlon James discusses the endlessly beautiful and brutal world of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first novel in The Dark Star Trilogy.
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Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters
7 maart 2019 · 30 min
Sea Monsters is a fascinatingly consistent and exquisitely shaped novel by Chloe Aridjis.
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Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley: Permanent Green Light
28 februari 2019 · 30 min
Bookworm alumnus Dennis Cooper, and collaborator Zac Farley, discuss the creative impulses behind their film Permanent Green Light.
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Sam Lipsyte: Hark
21 februari 2019 · 30 min
A novel that presents ambiguity as a constant feature of modern life, Hark is a book full of tensions, written with Sam Lipsyte’s fine grain strangeness, and absent of easy answers.
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Amanda Sthers: Holy Lands
14 februari 2019 · 30 min
A writer of ten novels in French, Holy Lands is the first novel by Amanda Sthers to appear in English, translated by herself.
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Tosh Berman: Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World
7 februari 2019 · 30 min
Tosh Berman’s memoir, Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World, is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world: reinvented to be here.
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Mary Ruefle: My Private Property
31 januari 2019 · 30 min
Mary Ruefle reads the entirety of her glorious and gruesome essay about shrunken heads, the title essay in her book My Private Property.
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Diane Williams: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
24 januari 2019 · 30 min
The original and indescribable writing of Diane Williams is showcased in over three hundred dazzling new and previously published shorts fictions from six releases, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams.
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Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
17 januari 2019 · 30 min
Again Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates herself as a masterful and electric writer, in her new collection of seven stories, Your Duck Is My Duck.
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John Wray: Godsend
10 januari 2019 · 30 min
John Wray discusses writing about the extremes of subjectivity, and breaking the reader of expectations in his new novel, Godsend.
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Jeff Jackson: Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
3 januari 2019 · 30 min
Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel comes at the same story from radically different angles that echo and rewrite each other.
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Edward M. Burns and Jim Gauer: Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
20 december 2018 · 30 min
A voluminous correspondence of an intellectual friendship between two literary geniuses, Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, edited by Edward M. Burns.
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Katharine Weber: Still Life with Monkey
13 december 2018 · 30 min
Dramatic, emotional, and philosophical, Katherine Weber’s, Still Life with Monkey, is a profound book written in the old style, with depths orchestrated by the author.
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Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered
6 december 2018 · 30 min
In Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, characters feel as if they did what was right in life, but get a bad deal at the end of their lives.
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Leland de la Durantaye: Hannah Versus the Tree
29 november 2018 · 29 min
Mythical and lyrical, written in love, Leland de la Durantaye’s debut novel Hannah Versus the Tree is original work that speaks to our moment.
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Brian Phillips: Impossible Owls
15 november 2018 · 30 min
The restless imagination of Brian Phillips brings lyrical essays to a narrative border in his debut book, Impossible Owls.
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Eileen Myles: Evolution
8 november 2018 · 30 min
Evolution is a collection of all-new material by Eileen Myles, whose inspired poetry is a form of communication.
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Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again
1 november 2018 · 30 min
Ben Fountain writes with equal opportunity vexation, trying to make sense of what we’re doing in our lives, in his new book Beautiful Country Burn Again.
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Susan Orlean: The Library Book
25 oktober 2018 · 30 min
Susan Orlean’s The Library Book is about the cultural institution of libraries, with each chapter a source of its own excitement.
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Tommy Orange: There There
18 oktober 2018 · 30 min
Beauty and despair woven into their history, twelve multigenerational urban Native Americans find ways to live in Tommy Orange’s There There.
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Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success
11 oktober 2018 · 30 min
Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success is about a hedge-fund manager billionaire who has lost track of what he once cared about and loved.
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Patrick deWitt: French Exit
4 oktober 2018 · 30 min
French Exit by Patrick deWitt, a vastly amusing novel about a spider woman.
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Edward St. Aubyn: The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
27 september 2018 · 30 min
Edward St. Aubyn’s Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk, and At Last: The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels, recently adapted into a five-episode limited series on Showtime.
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Joshua Cohen and Samuel Nicholson: ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
20 september 2018 · 30 min
Samuel Nicholson edited three of Joshua Cohen’s books at Random House, including his recent collection of nonfiction, ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.
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Joshua Cohen: ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
13 september 2018 · 30 min
Joshua Cohen’s collection of nonfiction, ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, examines the effect of the internet and technology on the human mind.
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Mary Cappello, James Morrison, Jean Walton Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration
6 september 2018 · 30 min
Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration, by Mary Cappello, James Morrison, and Jean Walton, is a trio of novella-length autographical essays about graduate school students who love to read.
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Joshua Mattson: A Short Film About Disappointment
30 augustus 2018 · 30 min
Joshua Mattson’s experimental debut novel, A Short Film About Disappointment, pulls the rug out from under the reader.
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B. Catling: The Vorhh Trilogy (Part 2)
23 augustus 2018 · 30 min
B. Catling further discusses learning to write The Vorhh Trilogy by being within it.
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B. Catling: The Vorhh Trilogy (Part 1)
16 augustus 2018 · 30 min
In B. Catling’s The Vorrh Trilogy, a vast surrealist tapestry comes into being; cooperating with the reader’s desire.
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Christian Kracht: The Dead
9 augustus 2018 · 30 min
Christian Kracht’s The Dead is an expectations bending book with more tricks than a circus.
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Lydia Millet: Fight No More
2 augustus 2018 · 30 min
Lydia Millet’s Fight No More is a book of improvised stories about people who live improvised lives in Los Angeles.