Alle afleveringen
1.622 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
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Christian Kracht: Imperium
16 juli 2015 · 30 min
Christian Kracht's Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas is a satirical parable that sees fanaticism as the root of German culture and imperialist culture in general.
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Amy Gerstler: Scattered at Sea
9 juli 2015 · 30 min
Amy Gerstler's new book of poems is an exploration of getting lost, the unknown, mortality and remembrance.
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Vendela Vida: The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
2 juli 2015 · 30 min
Vendela Vida's new novel is a story of identity, a recurring mystery in her work. We get to the bottom of why identity is her obsession.
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Aleksandar Hemon: The Making of Zombie Wars
25 juni 2015 · 30 min
This darkly nihilistic book masquerading as a comedy is as much a commentary on society as it is the story of a bad script-writer.
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Alan Cheuse: Prayers for the Living
18 juni 2015 · 30 min
The "voice of NPR book reviews" takes a singular opportunity – the discussion of his own novel with KCRW's bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.
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Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts
11 juni 2015 · 30 min
The Argonauts is a work of "auto-theory" in which theory is put to the test against life experience.
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Atticus Lish: Preparation for the Next Life
4 juni 2015 · 30 min
Atticus Lish's debut novel won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural.
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Valeria Luiselli: Faces in the Crowd
28 mei 2015 · 30 min
Valeria Luiselli's first novel reminds us of what it's like to be young and in love with literature.
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Per Petterson, Ethan Nosowsky and Geir Berdahl on Publishing
21 mei 2015 · 30 min
We talk to author Per Petterson, editor Ethan Nosowsky, and publisher Geir Berdahl about the what it takes to bring a book to life and about the changing world of publishing.
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Thomas McGuane: Crow Fair
14 mei 2015 · 30 min
Thomas McGuane's new book of stories is a demonstration model of his verbal surprises and his deep insight into his characters.
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Per Petterson: I Refuse
7 mei 2015 · 30 min
Per Petterson's I Refuse is a beautiful and lyrical symphony of sadness, grief and loss.
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Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
30 april 2015 · 30 min
Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book as a look at the concept of societal memory.
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Luis Alberto Urrea: Tijuana Book of the Dead, and The Water Museum
23 april 2015 · 30 min
The border between poetry and fiction is dismantled when the poet/author is Luis Alberto Urrea.
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David Vann: Aquarium
16 april 2015 · 30 min
In talking about his new novel, David Vann tells us how the characters were born of staring for hours at different delicate fish until they revealed who he was supposed to write about.
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Charles Baxter and the 'Hidden Bookshelf'
9 april 2015 · 30 min
Charles Baxter takes us through the pleasure of discovering books for what might be called the "hidden bookshelf."
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Charles Baxter: There's Something I Want You to Do
2 april 2015 · 30 min
Charles Baxter examines the elements of virtue and vice in his new collection of short stories.
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Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K
26 maart 2015 · 30 min
Rachel Kushner talks about the earliest impulses that inspired her first novel Telex from Cuba. She wanted a new concept of time, she needed to find a voice to create that highly subjective and changeable thing--the past.
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Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary
19 maart 2015 · 30 min
The discussion takes up writers who write about the racial "other." Can every writer do it successfully? Are there writers who shouldn't or can't? When is it appropriate and necessary?
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Claudia Rankine: Citizen, An American Lyric
12 maart 2015 · 30 min
In discussing Claudia Rankine's Citizen, an American Lyric, we discuss the way racism catches us all.
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Joyce Carol Oates: The Sacrifice
5 maart 2015 · 30 min
Joyce Carol Oates shapes a novel from the Tawana Brawley scandal of the 1980's.
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Peter Cole: The Invention of Influence
26 februari 2015 · 30 min
In Peter Cole's poetry, the Jewish mystical tradition gives rise to transmission of the spiritual vision.
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Chang-rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea
19 februari 2015 · 30 min
The possibility of a romantic adventure novel written in the repressive language of a dictatorship like China's would be entirely heartbreaking if it weren’t so funny. It would be very funny if it weren’t so heartbreaking.
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David Shields and Caleb Powell: I Think You're Totally Wrong
12 februari 2015 · 30 min
Can we truly understand another human being?
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Alain Mabanckou: Letter to Jimmy
5 februari 2015 · 30 min
Letter to Jimmy is Congolese author Alain Mabanckou’s book-length letter to James Baldwin.
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Richard Ford: Let Me Be Frank with You
29 januari 2015 · 30 min
Frank Bascombe, who's been making appearances since Ford's breakthrough novel, appears again in Richard Ford's latest novel.
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Lydia Millet: Mermaids in Paradise
22 januari 2015 · 30 min
Lydia Millet's new novel is fast-moving and funny -- except when it isn't.
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Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster
15 januari 2015 · 30 min
Colm Tóibín discusses his deeply personal story of a provincial Irishwoman who sets aside motherhood to grapple with grief.
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Todd Colby: Splash State
8 januari 2015 · 30 min
What is a Splash state? Poet Todd Colby tells us a splash state is the golden moment when his writing hits its ecstatic stride.
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Goli Taraghi: The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons
25 december 2014 · 30 min
Iranian author Goli Taraghi's recent collection translates many of her short stories of the past forty years into English for the first time.
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Marilynne Robinson: Lila
18 december 2014 · 30 min
Bookworm is joined by Marilynne Robinson to discuss Lila ( Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), the latest in a series of novels set in the backdrop of the dustbowl years.
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Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest
11 december 2014 · 30 min
Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis returns to discuss The Zone of Interest, a mordant exploration of love in a place that is meant to crush the soul in a concentration camp.
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Robert Duncan and Jess
4 december 2014 · 30 min
A conversation about the artist Jess and poet Robert Duncan who were the center of an underground art scene in San Francisco.
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Françoise Mouly, Ian Falconer, and Neil Gaiman: Kid’s Books
20 november 2014 · 30 min
What makes a good kid’s book?
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Ben Lerner: 10:04
13 november 2014 · 30 min
Ben Lerner is a novelist/poet who writes about the way we live now, which is not the way we used to live.
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Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
6 november 2014 · 30 min
The title of Waters’ new novel is a euphemism for “lodgers,” here used by the protagonist’s family to mask the shame of taking on tenants following WWII.
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John Darnielle: Wolf In White Van
30 oktober 2014 · 30 min
Darnielle titled his novel after a back-masked message in Larry Norman’s song “Six Sixty Six.” He reflects on our desire to locate meaning where there might be none.
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Jonathan Coe: Expo 58: A Novel
23 oktober 2014 · 30 min
Unlike Coe’s other comedic novels, here the humor has a nostalgic feel, reminiscent of 1950s British films like Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
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David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks
16 oktober 2014 · 30 min
Mitchell’s new novel follows his protagonist from 1984-2040; he reflects on mortality in a world that doesn’t much smile upon the aging process.
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Charles Burns: Sugar Skull
9 oktober 2014 · 30 min
This is the third in a trilogy of graphic novels by Burns in which the seemingly normal happenings of his protagonist Doug's life take an unsettling Freudian turn.
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Dylan Landis: Rainey Royal
2 oktober 2014 · 30 min
Landis’ novel, a series of chronological short-stories, follows the lives of three vulnerable, precocious girls as they pass through adolescence in 1970s New York.
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Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
25 september 2014 · 30 min
Flanagan’s Booker-nominated novel, titled after a travelogue written by 17th century Japanese poet Basho, follows the building of the Burma-Siam Railway during WWII.
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Joyce Carol Oates: Prison Noir
11 september 2014 · 29 min
Our discussion of this anthology, written by incarcerated men and women, divides between the shocking realism of the stories and Oates’ experience as editor of the collection.
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Donald Antrim: The Emerald Light in the Air
4 september 2014 · 30 min
Antrim’s collection of stories stems from his own experience with psychosis; we all have our turn in the barrel, he notes, and sometimes you're really turned upside down.
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Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part II)
28 augustus 2014 · 30 min
What exactly made Ulysses so dangerous? Like an eye into the future, this difficult, all-consuming book still seems radical almost a century after its publication.
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Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part I)
21 augustus 2014 · 30 min
Kevin Birmingham delves into the history of censorship surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses for its seemingly seditious, immoral content.
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William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part II)
14 augustus 2014 · 30 min
William T. Vollmann has authored a wide array of works of nonfiction as well as fiction. Who is this literary chameleon, and where is his life’s work going?
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William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part I)
7 augustus 2014 · 30 min
Vollmann leads us to the “wall of ill” that separates life from death. We dissect Vollmann’s opening remarks to the reader, brimful of images both dark and sweet.
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Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
31 juli 2014 · 30 min
Tillman says a writer shouldn’t be ahead of one’s time but ‘of’ one’s time. She wishes to open doors, break down barriers, and make us aware of how thoughts are formed.
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Edward St. Aubyn: Lost For Words
24 juli 2014 · 30 min
St. Aubyn’s novel parodies the upsurge of interest in literary prizes: what do these prizes have to do with literature, and are the books that win ones we should read?
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Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
17 juli 2014 · 30 min
Prose’s protagonist, Lou Villars, is based on the athlete and Gestapo interrogator Violette Morris, who was photographed with her lover in a Parisian nightclub in 1932.