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Constantine Phipps: What You Want
28 juli 2016 · 30 min
A tale of the ordinary, everyday quest for contentedness -- written entirely in heroic couplets.
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Vivian Gornick: The Odd Woman and the City
21 juli 2016 · 30 min
Vivian Gornick's memoir The Odd Woman and the City takes us on a tour of a life that is lived by walking, observing and talking. Gornick keeps her eyes open, and does she ever have a mouth on her!
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Geoff Dyer: White Sands
14 juli 2016 · 30 min
Paradoxically, Geoff Dyer begins his attempt to locate America by first traveling to Tahiti. There, he discovers that Gauguin’s vision of it no longer exists – if it ever really did. Can he find the soul of America in its landscapes?
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Louise Erdrich: LaRose, Part II
7 juli 2016 · 30 min
In part two of this conversation about LaRose – Louise Erdrich's novel about an act of restorative justice that tests the boundaries between two families – the discussion explores the non-linear form the novel moves in towards seeking balance and resolution. Lees meer
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Louise Erdrich: LaRose, Part I
30 juni 2016 · 30 min
In Louise Erdrich's LaRose, a terrible tragedy forces two families to resort to a form of traditional "restorative justice" in which one son must be given to replace the loss of another. Erdrich talks about this act as an attempt at restoring balance in a tight knit community where healing can take generations. Lees meer
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Joyce Carol Oates: The Man Without a Shadow
23 juni 2016 · 30 min
Joyce Carol Oates raises questions about memory – ethics, what it means to love, identity, and the ability to engage, and takes us on a trip down memory lane with a reading from a previous memoir recounting her favorite bad-for-you childhood foods.
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A. Scott Berg: Max Perkins
9 juni 2016 · 30 min
A. Scott Berg's Max Perkins: Editor of Genius is the biography of Maxwell Perkins, a long time Scribner editor who worked with the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.
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John Keene: Counternarratives
2 juni 2016 · 30 min
John Keene takes classic American narratives and stands them on their heads. In North and South American tales, he writes about the "others" (Indians, blacks, queers) to re-examine stories we think we know.
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John D'Agata: The Making of the American Essay
26 mei 2016 · 30 min
Despite 20 years of study, John D'Agata believes that we're still in the "Wild West" of coming to terms with the essay, its long heritage and its creation.
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Valeria Luiselli: The Story of My Teeth
19 mei 2016 · 30 min
Originally commissioned to write a novel for Jumex, a Mexican beverage company and supporter of the arts, Luiselli instead chose to write a novel for Jumex's factory workers.
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Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
12 mei 2016 · 30 min
Greenwell's first novel examines the relationship between an American teacher in Bulgaria with a male prostitute.
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David Means: Hystopia
28 april 2016 · 30 min
After four acclaimed short story collections, Means' first novel takes on the Vietnam War.
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Helen Macdonald: H Is for Hawk
21 april 2016 · 30 min
Helen Macdonald's new book is her account of working through her grief over her father's death by adopting and training a goshawk.
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Christopher Sorrentino: The Fugitives
14 april 2016 · 30 min
The characters of Christopher Sorrentino's novel are unreliable narrators. They're liars who hide the truth, not only from themselves but ultimately from the reader.
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Greg Jackson: Prodigals
7 april 2016 · 30 min
Greg Jackson's new collection of eight stories follows the lives of youngish people of privilege on their journey to deconstruct just what their destination is supposed to be. But his characters might be running up against the mystery of themselves.
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Brian Blanchfield: Proxies
31 maart 2016 · 30 min
Blanchfield's essays reveal truths about a queer poet in the post-AIDS era.
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Dana Spiotta: Innocents and Others
24 maart 2016 · 30 min
Dana Spiotta's Innocents and Others tells the feminist story of how women make do in a male-dominated world through two female filmmaker best friends, and a third, troubled woman adept at beguiling powerful Hollywood men.
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David Remnick and Deborah Treisman on fiction in the New Yorker
17 maart 2016 · 30 min
David Remnick and Deborah Treisman, editor and fiction editor, take us through the fiction at the New Yorker and how it has changed over the years.
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Joshua Cohen: Book of Numbers
10 maart 2016 · 30 min
Joshua Cohen's The Book of Numbers follows the rise of the Internet through a protagonist he modeled after some of the web's biggest shapers, including Google's Sergey Brin, but mostly Apple's Steve Jobs.
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Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen
3 maart 2016 · 30 min
Elizabeth McKenzie's half screwball romantic comedy and half critique of the conspicuous consumption of the leisure class, featuring a heroine named after the depressive American economist Thorstein Veblen and a cast that includes advice-giving squirrels. Lees meer
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Mark de Silva: Square Wave
25 februari 2016 · 30 min
Philosopher Mark de Silva's debut novel shows what a novel can do when it goes off the beaten track.
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Darryl Pinckney: Black Deutschland
18 februari 2016 · 30 min
Darryl Pinckney talks about the attraction of leaving America to discover how to be an African-American in America.
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Ryan Gattis: All Involved
11 februari 2016 · 30 min
Ryan Gattis' new book, All Involved, is really a reconstitution of the L.A. riots from a person who wasn't there.
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Larissa MacFarquhar: Strangers Drowning
4 februari 2016 · 30 min
Larissa MacFarquhar writes about do-gooders who practice effective altruism. They don't care what others think of their extreme choices. They care about being effective.
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Edmund de Waal: The White Road
28 januari 2016 · 30 min
Edmund de Waal takes us on a vast journey into the history and heart, skin and bones of porcelain.
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Bruce Bauman: Broken Sleep
21 januari 2016 · 30 min
Bruce Bauman's new novel is like a family with everyone, including the reader, struggling to find a place, a home, a sense of community.
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Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners
14 januari 2016 · 30 min
Poets and editors CAConrad, Robert Dewhurst, and Joshua Beckman talk both about groundbreaking, boldly gay poet/activist, John Wieners, and about the process of compiling and honoring such a prolific poet with the selected works book.
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Rick Moody: Hotels of North America
7 januari 2016 · 30 min
Hotel reviews that really, become reviews on life.
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Salman Rushdie: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
31 december 2015 · 30 min
Salman Rushdie's version of The Arabian Nights, his attempt to understand what the through-line of the collection of classic tales is and partly as a portrait of the human race and its salvation. (Repeat)
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Paul Murray: The Mark and the Void
24 december 2015 · 30 min
Paul Murray's comic novel dramatizes an economic crisis in his native Ireland, one that imperils the vitality of Dublin's culture.
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Eileen Myles: I Must Be Living Twice
17 december 2015 · 30 min
Poet, fiction writer, essayist and dramatist Eileen Myles on success, the relevancy of poetry and surviving as a poet
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Isabel Allende: The Japanese Lover
10 december 2015 · 30 min
Allende brings her emotional wisdom to the love lives of three generations of post World War II Asian and Jewish characters.
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Sandra Cisneros: A House of My Own
3 december 2015 · 30 min
Sandra Cisneros, now in her sixties, looks back at her journey to find her voice, in a candid memoir woven from prose, photographs, and essays.
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Jonathan Franzen: Purity
26 november 2015 · 30 min
Jonathan Franzen's latest book is an exploration of intensely intimate relationships and the inevitability of their destructive effects.
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Gary Indiana: I Can Give You Anything but Love
19 november 2015 · 30 min
The outlandish and unguarded Gary Indiana has written what can be described as an "anti-memoir." He doesn't like memoirs but has written one himself, partly because he has lived a real life all over the world: he actually has something to write about. Lees meer
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Mary Karr: The Art of Memoir
12 november 2015 · 30 min
Is it common practice to lie in a memoir? Not for accomplished memoirists, according to Mary Karr. The Art of Memoir, in part a how-to book, distills 30 years of teaching and writing memoir.
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Joy Williams: The Visiting Privilege
5 november 2015 · 30 min
The writer's writer, Joy Williams, has written a book that spans her body of work – from familiar stories to new ones, showcases her deep, natural understanding of the process of writing.
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Patrick deWitt: Undermajordomo Minor
29 oktober 2015 · 30 min
Patrick deWitt's latest book follows his penchant for building humiliation into his novels.
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Bill Clegg: Did You Ever Have a Family
22 oktober 2015 · 30 min
Bill Clegg makes the transition from memoirist to novelist. His book and its title are a statement on the kindness of strangers and the necessity to fashion one's own family.
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Ann Beattie: The State We're In
15 oktober 2015 · 30 min
In The State We're In: Maine Stories, Ann Beattie deftly and effortlessly takes the ingredients that make up short stories and shakes them up to create something new and beautiful.
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Bonnie Nadzam and Dale Jamieson: Love in the Anthropocene
1 oktober 2015 · 30 min
Fiction writer Bonnie Nadzam and environmental philosopher, Dale Jamieson, worked together to write Love in the Anthropocene, a collection of five short stories that describe a very near future in which nature as we know it no longer exists.
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Dodie Bellamy: When the Sick Rule the World
17 september 2015 · 30 min
In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay form into poetry, personal memoire and literary analysis
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William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II
10 september 2015 · 30 min
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War is the fifth book in Vollman's seven-book series about loss and transformation of the North American continent, this novel dramatizes a power grab disguised as a race war between Native Americans and settlers. Lees meer
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William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I
3 september 2015 · 30 min
The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce. This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce. Lees meer
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Allison Green: The Ghosts Who Travel with Me
27 augustus 2015 · 30 min
A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan Press.
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Louisa Hall: Speak
20 augustus 2015 · 30 min
Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test: how do we know if what we are communicating with via machine is human?
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Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets
13 augustus 2015 · 30 min
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.
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E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley
6 augustus 2015 · 30 min
In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.
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Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman
30 juli 2015 · 30 min
Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.
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Linda Rosenkrantz: Talk
23 juli 2015 · 30 min
In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea to tape record her friends on the beach in East Hampton. The result was Talk, in which anything could become a subject for conversation – it was all discussed.