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Alice Fulton: Cascade Experiment

KCRW — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Alice Fulton wants to "dirty" lyric poetry by making it bear witness to the grievous geo-politics of the present.

Rae Armantrout: Just Saying

KCRW — Thu, 30 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Rae Armantrout's poems apprehend the world as a place charged by the nonexistent supernatural. For her, the eerie thing is that ghosts don't exist.

Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword

KCRW — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Pura Lopez-Colomé's poetry, translated by Forrest Gander, envisions the body as a mystically rich reservoir of experience and language.

Aleksandar Hemon: The Book of My Lives

KCRW — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Aleksandar Hemon takes us though his life from his childhood in Sarajevo -- from the public tragedy of warfare to the private catastrophe of the loss of his child.

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Margaret Atwood on Innovation

KCRW — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Margaret Atwood has embraced the frontiers of online literary culture. She reflects on her exploration of literary innovation and why Hermes is the patron of the new(s).

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Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers

KCRW — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700

A novel of multiple voices, motorcycles, and swift zigzags between separate times and places.

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David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life

KCRW — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0700

David Shields explores the power of the written word in his new book of essays.

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Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

KCRW — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Mohsin Hamid mocks the self-help genre in his new novel.

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Sam Lipsyte:The Fun Parts

KCRW — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0700

The brazen, satirical stories in Sam Lipsyte's latest book incite reactions that run the gamut from anger to outrage to sheer hilarity.

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Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed

KCRW — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Set on the Princeton campus in 1905, a penetrating social commentary masquerades as a classic American Gothic.

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Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table

KCRW — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0700

Ondaatje discusses his turn from concealment to revelation and reflects on the magic of youth.

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Jess Walter: We Live in Water

KCRW — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0700

How did Jess Walter make the leap between his romantic novel, "Beautiful Ruins," and the end-of-the-world sadness of his stories in "We Live in Water?"

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Eloise Klein Healy: A Wild Surmise

KCRW — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0700

The recently named the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles reads selections from her new collection and reflects on what it means to be a poet of place today.

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Luis Alberto Urrea, Part Two

KCRW — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0800

Luis Alberto Urrea ("The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "Queen of America") continues to discuss his saga inspired by the life of Teresita Urrea, "the Mexican Joan of Arc."

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Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America

KCRW — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:30:00 -0800

Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican curandera...

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