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January 01, 1990 - April 29, 2012 + Bookworm
Jewish Identity in Writing (Part 5 of 10) 
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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,...
Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman
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American Linden (Tupelo)
Your Time Has Come (Verse)
Poets Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman discuss the formation of a new literary press, Wave, and then branch out...
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin)
The young Jonathan Safran Foer (28) offers an even younger narrator (9) whose father died in the bombing...
Jonathan Williams
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Jubilant Thicket: new and selected poems (Copper Canyon)
Jonathan Williams alternates between playing the role of elder statesman and that of rambunctious old cuss....
Ian McEwan
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Saturday (Doubleday)
Ian McEwan's first book since his stunning Atonement, is one of the first novels written in response to 9/11 and worldwide threats of terrorism....
Roberto Calasso
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K. (Knopf) Roberto Calasso--scholar, publisher, polymath--delves into the works of Franz Kafka more deeply than anyone ever has. In this conversation, we explore the...
Gilbert Sorrentino
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In Lunar Follies (Coffee House), one of his genre-defying extravaganzas, Gilbert Sorrentino describes outlandish art shows, all of them taking place in galleries...
Steve Erickson
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Our Ecstatic Days (Simon & Schuster)
We explore the hallucinatory intensity of Steve Erickson's visionary novel born out of the anxiety provoked by the imagined...
Martha Kinney, Derek McCormack and Dennis Cooper
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The Fall of Heartless Horse by Martha Kinney (Akashic); Grab Bag by Derek McCormack (Akashic)
Two young writers and their editor tell about their new...
Camille Paglia
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon)
Firebrand Paglia devotes her energies to a vibrant demonstration of...
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
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Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)In the second part of our conversation, we explore the historical and social forces that shape Marilynne Robinson's narrator, John...
