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January 01, 1990 - February 06, 2013 + Bookworm

Kazuo Ishiguro listen Download

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Never Let Me Go (Knopf) Kazuo Ishiguro never tells more than he has to--his stripped-down narratives are filled with absence and mystery. In this science fiction...

Michel Houellebecq listen Download

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H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (Believer Books) The controversial French writer on his early influence, H. P. Lovecraft, the American writer of...

Umberto Eco listen Download

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Harcourt) The loss of memory is Umberto Eco's subject here. After a stroke, an antiquarian bookseller remembers every book...

Nicole Krauss: The History of Love listen Download

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The History of Love: A Novel (Norton) Memory is the subject of many novels, but Nicole Krauss' subject is the transmission of memory: how do you...

Bret Easton Ellis listen Download

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Lunar Park (Knopf) Beginning as an autobiography, Lunar Park turns into a classic horror novel. The haunted house, however, is spooked by Bret Ellis- personal...

Bookworm Series Finale (Part 10 of 10) listen Download

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Maya Angelou believes that a writer who tells the truth can be read by anyone. James Baldwin, for example, can be enjoyed by black,...

Beyond Identity--A Dark Vision (Part 9 of 10) listen Download

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Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood and John Banville Tom Wolfe discusses neuroscience and its view that there is no such thing as identity. Margaret Atwood talks about...

Hispanic Identity in Writing (Part 8 of 10) listen Download

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Sandra Cisneros and Nina Marie Martínez The two Hispanic women explain how they've been put into the cage of multiculturalism, sometimes by the way they view...

Asian Identity in Writing (Part 7 of 10) listen Download

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Susan Choi, Maxine Hong Kingston and Don Lee American-born writers of Asian descent explore the challenge of forging identity, while living "between cultures."

Sexuality and Literary Theory (Part 6 of 10) listen Download

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James McCourt, Camille Paglia, Alan Hollinghurst and Edmund White James McCourt discusses the emergence of "queer identity" and gives an overview of French literary theories and...

Jewish Identity in Writing (Part 5 of 10) listen Download

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Cartoonist and graphic novelist Art Spiegelman explains how writers' identities are revealed in their work, that reading a book is like crawling into the writer's...

African Americans and Identity in Writing (Part 4 of 10) listen Download

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Rita Dove, Edward P. Jones, Alice Walker and Jayne Cortez Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove reads her thrilling poem "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove"...

Place and Identity (Part 3 of 10) listen Download

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J. D. McClatchy has traveled the US visiting the homes of classic American writers. Joan Didion talks about her native California; Jonathan Lethem describes...

The Creation of Identity (Part 2 of 10) listen Download

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We hear from E. L. Doctorow and Norman Mailer, but the focus is on Russell Banks, a white, male, American writer, who started his career...

Escaping the Cage: Identity, Multiculturalism and Writing listen Download

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Russell Banks, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Tom Wolfe and David Mitchell In the first of this 10-part series, Escaping the Cage: Identity,...