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Ryan Gattis: Safe
17 augustus 2017 · 30 min
Ryan Gattis reveals that one day he got a call, asking if he'd like to watch a former gang member crack a safe. Thus, the novel Safe was born.
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Deborah Treisman: The Dream Colony
3 augustus 2017 · 30 min
The Dream Colony: A Life in Art is a posthumous memoir that captures the dazzling verbal gifts of Los Angeles art curator Walter Hopps.
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Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
27 juli 2017 · 30 min
Trained as an architect, Roy reveals that she structured her novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness like an Indian metropolis where ancient neighborhoods collide with modern urban planning.
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Jim Gauer: Novel Explosives
20 juli 2017 · 30 min
Quantum physics, the theory of relativity, and the miracle of the solar system fuel Novel Explosives, Jim Gauer’s ambitious and challenging novel.
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Joshua Cohen: Moving Kings
13 juli 2017 · 30 min
In the family novel, Moving Kings, Joshua Cohen weaves together the tragedy of Israeli occupation with an American housing crisis.
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Peter Cole: Hymns & Qualms
6 juli 2017 · 30 min
Poet and translator Peter Cole reveals that his intention is to yoke together beauty and terror in his new book Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations.
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Zachary Mason: Void Star
29 juni 2017 · 29 min
Zachary Mason insists that Void Star is not cyber-punk Although it is set more than 100 years in the future during climate catastrophe, he describes the novel as literary fiction that uses science fiction and genre elements.
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Alan Felsenthal: Lowly
22 juni 2017 · 29 min
Alan Felsenthal's first book of poetry, Lowly, moves in the direction of the visionary, the mystical and the metaphysical.
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Yiyun Li: Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life
15 juni 2017 · 30 min
Written about a time when she was hospitalized for depression, Yiyun Li's Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life is a combination of memoir and essay. She believes that cherished writers saved her from sorrow and suicidal ideation.
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Colm Tóibín: House of Names
8 juni 2017 · 29 min
In his novel House of Names, Colm Tóibín finds, in adapting Greek tragedy, a home for all of his old concerns and room for new ones, too.
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Claudio Magris: Blameless
1 juni 2017 · 29 min
In Claudio Magris' Blameless, a museum of the implements of war and destruction is created to inspire peace. But this conversation is not just about war and peace.
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Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret
18 mei 2017 · 29 min
Biographer Brad Gooch reveals that he traveled 2500 miles to trace Rumi's footsteps, learned Persian and spent eight years to write Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love.
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Richard Bausch: Living in the Weather of the World
11 mei 2017 · 29 min
Has the feeling of doom become our weather? If so, Richard Bausch says he contends with contemporary life by writing about people coping with loss and sorrow.
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Ron Padgett: Motor Maids across the Continent
4 mei 2017 · 29 min
Poet Ron Padgett reveals that in the 1960s, he found a dusty novel in a Manhattan bookstore. Originally written for teenage girls during World War I, Padgett has been playfully rewriting it ever since.
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Steven Moore: My Back Pages
27 april 2017 · 29 min
Steven Moore has gathered his book reviews and essays that take us from the Beats and the Fifties to practically yesterday or even tomorrow.
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Julian Talamantez Brolaski: Of Mongrelitude
20 april 2017 · 29 min
Talamantez Brolaski is trans-gender and describes himself as a multi-gendered, racial and linguistic mongrel. His poems chart a journey out of pain, confusion and darkness into a visionary state.
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Elif Batuman: The Idiot
13 april 2017 · 29 min
Selin, the heroine of Batuman’s autobiographical first novel, The Idiot, is an 18-year-old Harvard freshman of Turkish-American descent. Set in 1995, the novel observes the rise of internet culture.
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George Toles: Paul Thomas Anderson
6 april 2017 · 29 min
Screenwriter and critic George Toles' study of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson focuses on his more recent films, including Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and The Master. Toles values tracking his deepest personal experiences while watching a movie. Lees meer
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Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
16 maart 2017 · 29 min
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Emil Ferris' debut graphic novel, is the diary of a ten-year-old girl obsessed with monsters who also believes she herself is a werewolf.
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Gary Groth on Fantagraphics and the art of the graphic novel
9 maart 2017 · 29 min
Gary Groth, editor of Fantagraphics, publisher of some of the most notable graphic novels today, discusses the rise of comics, what makes a good graphic novel, and what his selection process is like.
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Álvaro Enrigue: Sudden Death
2 maart 2017 · 30 min
Álvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death is the wild tale of a tennis match between the poet Francisco de Quevedo and the artist Caravaggio that transcends time and involves other historically transformative, and often combative, figures. Enrigue, who calls his impulse to write "visceral and erratic," was angered into starting this book by the 2008 financial crisis. Lees meer
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Rachel Cusk: Transit
23 februari 2017 · 29 min
Rachel Cusk's novel Transit is the second in a planned trilogy. Cusk believes that humans have an innate grasp of form, a gift that makes us story-tellers. But the stories we tell ourselves can become traps.
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Steve Erickson: Shadowbahn
15 februari 2017 · 29 min
In Erickson's intense, absorbing novel, the Twin Towers suddenly re-appear in the Dakota Badlands. This road novel is a trip through a phantom country where the American dream was never realized.
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Michael Tolkin: NK3
9 februari 2017 · 29 min
The North Koreans have tested a weapon called NK3, a weaponized nano-bacterium designed to confuse South Koreans. The test has spread around the world. As a result, the world has lost its memory.
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Ron Padgett: Collected Poems
2 februari 2017 · 29 min
Padgett's poems stand in for the poems written by a bus driver in the Jim Jarmusch movie Paterson. Padgett experiences writing poetry as a natural activity, rather like brushing his teeth.
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Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (Part II)
26 januari 2017 · 29 min
In the second half of our conversation with Ottessa Moshfegh, the author discusses her discomfort in this world but admits that there is a touch of self-parody in the title of this collection of stories.
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Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (Part I)
19 januari 2017 · 29 min
In the first of two conversations with Ottessa Moshfegh, the author reveals that she doesn't feel comfortable in this world. Her characters long for another world, as does Moshfegh.
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Lynne Tillman: The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories
12 januari 2017 · 30 min
Lynne Tillman's The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories, is a unique blend of short fiction, essays, and philosophical musings that defy categorization.
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Don DeLillo: Zero K
5 januari 2017 · 30 min
In Don DeLillo's latest novel, Zero K, the practice of cryonics or freezing oneself to be awakened later, is in full, but secret swing.
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Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
29 december 2016 · 30 min
Colson Whitehead's new great American novel depicts a real underground railroad that transports a fugitive slave to stops that defy time and history, highlighting the daily struggles of black people, past and present.
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Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls
22 december 2016 · 29 min
Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls – about a boy facing tremendous conflict with a bully at school, well-meaning inattentive teachers, and a dying mother – was actually already a story begun by another writer, who died before finishing it.
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Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History
15 december 2016 · 29 min
Rabih Alameddine's The Angel of History takes place as much in the protagonist's head as it does in a psych ward where he checks himself in for a bit of rest while he battles the voices in his head.
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Mitch Sisskind: Do Not Be a Gentleman When You say Goodnight
8 december 2016 · 29 min
Mitch Sisskind's Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight is a distillation of nearly fifty years of brilliant comic writing.
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Peter Orner: Am I Alone Here?
1 december 2016 · 30 min
When novelist Peter Orner's father died, he found himself unable to write. At the same time, his marriage fell apart. He consoled himself by reading and started to write responses to the literature that gave him comfort.
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Kate Tempest: The Bricks that Built the Houses
24 november 2016 · 30 min
Rapper, poet, playwright and now novelist, Kate Tempest always knew she would write The Bricks that Built the Houses as an accompaniment to the characters in her record Everybody Down. (Rebroadcast)
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TC Boyle: The Terranauts
17 november 2016 · 30 min
TC Boyle's The Terranauts centers around eight earth explorers who lock themselves up in E2, a biodome created to mimic earth and test the viability of a self-sustained environment. But what happens between the eight terranauts and their mission control has a bigger impact on sustainability than science had counted on. Lees meer
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Tessa Hadley: The Past
10 november 2016 · 30 min
Tessa Hadley's book, The Past, has at its center a summer vacation home, and the four middle-aged siblings who come together to decide whether to sell it or not.
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Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
3 november 2016 · 30 min
Ann Patchett's latest novel, Commonwealth, follows fifty-two years in the life of a large family. The idea of the book came to her because as a bookstore owner, she saw that what was missing from the shelves was the story of a big, modern family.
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am
27 oktober 2016 · 30 min
The hero of Here I Am is a pun-loving television writer who is pummeled by the loss of everything he values. This novel expands a family crisis into a global crisis which threatens the state of Israel.
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Nicholson Baker: Substitute
20 oktober 2016 · 30 min
Nicholson Baker's Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids was born of a desire to write a book articulating his theories about education – theories based on having had kids in school. Realizing his premise was weak, as he'd never been a teacher, he embarked on the adventure of a lifetime by becoming a substitute teacher. Lees meer
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Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
13 oktober 2016 · 30 min
Since memory is not only malleable but unreliable, which version of the truth will prevail?
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Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn
6 oktober 2016 · 30 min
Another Brooklyn, award-winning Young Adult novelist Jacqueline Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years, tells the story of childhood friends as they grow into women.
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Marisa Silver: Little Nothing
29 september 2016 · 30 min
An ugly young dwarf girl transforms first into a beauty, then into a tall woman, then into a wolf.
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Affinity Konar: Mischling
22 september 2016 · 30 min
In Auschwitz, the infamous Dr. Mengele conducted horrifying physical and psychological experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Affinity Konar's Mischling (meaning mixed blood) is the story of twin sisters who find themselves imprisoned in Dr. Mengele's "zoo." Lees meer
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Adam Fitzgerald: George Washington
8 september 2016 · 30 min
Adam Fitzgerald's poetry in George Washington: Poems comes across as playful while exploring the concept of Americana and what that means.
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Krys Lee: How I Became a North Korean
1 september 2016 · 30 min
Krys Lee's first novel dramatizes boundaries and borders – not just political ones but those that complicate human relationships.
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Joe McGinniss Jr: Carousel Court
25 augustus 2016 · 30 min
A married couple wind up in a wasteland of foreclosed houses and abandoned homes.
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Tom McCarthy: Satin Island
18 augustus 2016 · 30 min
Tom McCarthy's Satin Island features a protagonist who, as his company's corporate anthropologist, has been given the enormous task of compiling a report summing up the modern era.
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Tom Lutz: Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World
11 augustus 2016 · 30 min
In his travels to more than 100 countries – some dangerous, some surprisingly not – Tom Lutz finds that the more places he goes, the more the world leaves him a little bit lost.
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Michelle Latiolais: She
4 augustus 2016 · 30 min
Neither a novel nor a collection of stories, the "fictions" in She weave together a composite view of Los Angeles.