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Alice Notley: Negativity's Kiss
10 juli 2014 · 30 min
The heroine of Alice Notley's noir epic poem is named Ines. This is short for "inessential," which is what Notley says the poet is, and, really, what we all are.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part II)
3 juli 2014 · 30 min
Knausgaard’s third volume focuses on childhood. He says what he knows of people he knows from books. He continues in this tradition of telling with the written word.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part I)
26 juni 2014 · 30 min
Reflecting on his autobiographical novels, Knausgaard says literature should be about life; in writing, he attempts to find meaning within the banality of the everyday.
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Michael Carroll: Little Reef, and Edmund White: Inside a Pearl
19 juni 2014 · 30 min
An exciting first for Bookworm, recently married literary-couple Michael Carroll and Edmund White join us for a double-interview.
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László Krasznahorkai: Seiobo There Below
12 juni 2014 · 30 min
Do we have a need for a connection with heaven and hell? Krasznahorkai's novel is a valuation of human life seen from heaven and hell through the eyes of a Taoist goddess.
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Lydia Davis: Can't and Won't
6 juni 2014 · 30 min
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
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Sjon: The Whispering Muse
29 mei 2014 · 30 min
Sjón places classic epics side-by-side with Icelandic sagas of past centuries. We discuss how literature comes from literature and one story gives birth to the next.
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Mona Simpson: Casebook
22 mei 2014 · 30 min
We are never prepared to discover our parents are fallible; Simpson's protagonist investigates his parents' lives but most of what he uncovers he doesn't wish to know.
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Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
15 mei 2014 · 30 min
VanderMeer's trilogy chronicles expeditions orchestrated by a government agency called the Southern Reach into a dangerous landscape where reality and unreality blur.
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Jeff Jackson: Mira Corpora
8 mei 2014 · 30 min
For Jeff Jackson, starting a novel is an invocation. There's an idea that telling our stories is cathartic but sometimes what you've really done is turn up the volume.
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Emma Donoghue: Frog Music
1 mei 2014 · 30 min
Emma Donoghue found the San Francisco she uncovered while researching for her novel far more modern than the Dublin she grew up in a century later.
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Lorrie Moore: Bark
24 april 2014 · 30 min
Lorrie Moore's darkly humorous stories follow middle-aged men and women in states of lonely desperation trapped by the absurdities of their everyday lives.
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Dustin Long: Bad Teeth
17 april 2014 · 30 min
Dustin Long speaks of the disappointment his generation has grown to expect at having prepared for a life that isn't there.
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Michelle Huneven: Off Course
10 april 2014 · 30 min
Love can become a false Eden. Michelle Huneven's protagonist retreats to the Sierras to write her dissertation but upon accepting a lover begins to dwell in their affair.
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John Banville (Benjamin Black): Black-Eyed Blonde
3 april 2014 · 30 min
Irish author John Banville has written a new novel under his crime-fiction pseudonym, Benjamin Black, and in the guise of Raymond Chandler.
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Robert Bly and Marion Woodman
28 maart 2014 · 29 min
Robert Bly and Marion Woodman "The; Maiden King" (Holt) Why do fairy tales, legends and myths continue to transmit wisdom? Poet Bly and analyst Woodman interpret a Russian fairy tale
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John Irving: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
28 maart 2014 · 30 min
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (Ballantine)
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John Robert Hoffman
28 maart 2014 · 30 min
Northern Lights The playwright discusses, and performs from, his new work.
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Jay Parini
28 maart 2014 · 29 min
The Last Station
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Yiyun Li: Kinder than Solitude
27 maart 2014 · 30 min
Originally from Beijing, Yiyun Li thought she would be a scientist. Writing in her non-native English, she addresses the emotional brutality of our time.
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T.C. Boyle: Stories II
20 maart 2014 · 30 min
T.C. Boyle's latest book demonstrates the breadth of his years as a story-teller. Now in his 60's he is turning towards the uncertainties of age and our planet's destiny.
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Warren Lehrer: A Life in Books
13 maart 2014 · 30 min
Warren Lehrer's interest in the look and shape of books has led him to become "an illuminated novelist." We discuss the future of books, authorship and print itself.
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Valerie Martin: The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
6 maart 2014 · 30 min
Valerie Martin on her fascination with the ship Mary Celeste, found floating with no crew off the coast of Spain in 1872. She says she does not believe in ghosts, but…
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Hilton Als: White Girls
27 februari 2014 · 30 min
Hilton Als' first book in 14 years is a series of essays that defy easy categorization. His "white girls" are neither necessarily girls nor white….
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Richard Powers: Orfeo
20 februari 2014 · 29 min
Richard Powers says his new novel reveals that there's little difference between a passion and an idea.
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Jaime Hernandez and Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
13 februari 2014 · 30 min
Junot Diaz says Jaime Hernandez's illustrations for the deluxe new edition of his acclaimed collection of stories make their collaboration "rise to the level of jazz."
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Jonathan Blum: Last Word
6 februari 2014 · 29 min
Blum on publishing his first book, and the riddle of a moral contained in its inscrutable 13-year-old antihero, a Bartlebian computer whiz with a vengeful streak.
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Gary Shteyngart: Little Failure
30 januari 2014 · 30 min
Shteyngart wrote his memoir when he realized that his life story mirrored that of the 20th century, the saga of one failed superpower giving way to another failing one.
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Alfred Starr Hamilton: A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
23 januari 2014 · 30 min
Ben Estes, Alan Felsenthal and Amanda Nadelberg read poems from Alfred Starr Hamlton's "Dreambox" and reflect on their experience editing this unsung enchanter.
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Denis Scheck, German literary critic and host of 'Druckfrisch'
16 januari 2014 · 30 min
Esteemed German literary critic Denis Scheck joins us for a special international "meeting of the minds" to appraise the state of book criticism today.
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James McCourt: Lasting City
9 januari 2014 · 30 min
James McCourt's novelistic memoir collages together vignettes of personal and queer community history in the New York City of mid-century.
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Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
26 december 2013 · 30 min
Our master of seductive street-slang on seduction and its relation to fiction. Can a writer seduce you? Junot Díaz describes what he calls "the shock of representation."
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Joe Sacco: The Great War: July 1, 1916
19 december 2013 · 30 min
A trenchant "comic journalist" depicting the horrors of human conflicts, Joe Sacco's latest work is an astonishing panorama of the Battle of the Somme...
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Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
12 december 2013 · 30 min
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its 40th-anniversary, Jong clarifies "Fear of Flying's" earnest philosophical
motives, and identifies her literary influences, from Shakespeare to Pauline
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Will Self: Umbrella
5 december 2013 · 30 min
Self’s striking novel about loss, language, and perception after the First World War -- and a bold departure from the satirical mode he is best known for.
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Joan Didion on 'Blue Nights'
28 november 2013 · 30 min
After the deaths of husband and daughter, Joan Didion wrote the most personal and poetic book of her impressive career...
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James Franco: Actors Anonymous
21 november 2013 · 30 min
James Franco says literature was his emotional and intellectual escape valve from the alternate reality of filmmaking, performance, and celebrity.
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Allan Gurganus: Local Souls
14 november 2013 · 30 min
Allan Gurganus says the three novellas that comprise his new book, "Local Souls," were written as modern fables or fairy tales.
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Alice McDermott: Someone
7 november 2013 · 30 min
Alice McDermott once felt a fear that her new novel would be seen as just another of her perfect Irish American novels. Instead it leaps from the page.
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Andre Dubus, III: Dirty Love
31 oktober 2013 · 30 min
Four linked novellas explore the poignant interior lives of small-town characters who are usually unseen and unknown.
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Nicholson Baker: Traveling Sprinkler
24 oktober 2013 · 30 min
Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies, you've got a novel.
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Jonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens
17 oktober 2013 · 30 min
Jonathan Lethem’s latest chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century.
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Alexander Maksik: A Marker to Measure Drift
10 oktober 2013 · 30 min
An aristocratic Liberian woman is left bereft and exiled on a remote Aegean island during her country's second civil war…
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Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby
3 oktober 2013 · 30 min
Part memoir, part literary criticism, part self-analysis, Rebecca Solnit's latest is an inter-genre meditation on the ways our lives are orchestrated by stories.
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Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled
26 september 2013 · 30 min
Van Dyke Parks on his multifaceted career as a lyricist, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, on the heels of his first studio album in nearly twenty years.
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Russ Kick: The Graphic Canon, Volume 3
19 september 2013 · 30 min
This garden of literary and visual delights, edited by Russ Kick, wondrously illustrates the arc of 20th century literature by over 80 graphic artists.
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Mark Slouka: Brewster
12 september 2013 · 29 min
Mark Slouka explores passion as an alternative to irony in the creation of dramatic, lyrical prose.
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Margaret Atwood: Maddaddam
5 september 2013 · 29 min
Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam completes the dystopian trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."
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Cathleen Schine: Fin and Lady
29 augustus 2013 · 29 min
Cathleen Schine says that she – and her writing – survive by seeing the humor in her life.
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Peter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge
22 augustus 2013 · 30 min
Peter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."