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Jamaica Kincaid listen Download

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Jamaica Kincaid on "the feminine arts," from reproduction to literary creation. Part 6 of the nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."

Gioia Timpanelli listen Download

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Gioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul (Vintage) Storytelling iswhat later becomes literature, says professional storyteller GioiaTimpanelli. Here, she looks at her novellas and...

Rikki Ducornet listen Download

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Rikki Ducornet The Fan-Maker?s Inquisition (Holt) Rikki Ducornetclaims that the imagination has no gender and no limitations. In aninvestigation of its dangers,...

Pamela Houston listen Download

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Pamela Houston A Little More About Me (Norton) Houston identifiesherself as a ?human animal? and her writing as an exploration of thedistance she...

Annie Leibovitz listen Download

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Annie Leibovitz Women (Random House) The photographer talks abouther identification with her subjects: women and what their faces say aboutwomen?s lives. Part 2 of...

Isabel Allende listen Download

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Daughter of Fortune (Harper Collins)In the first of a series on women's writing and imagination, Isabel Allende uses feminist terms to describe her history of...

Roddy Doyle listen Download

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Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry (Viking) Roddy Doyle, novelist of the Irish working class, takes a picaresque gallop through &quotthe Troubles&quot in an historical...

Frank McCourt listen Download

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Frank McCourt 'Tis: A Memoir (Scribner) America's favorite Irishman talks about the dubious luxury of writing his second memoir while on airplanes and in waiting...

Michael Frayn listen Download

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Michael Frayn Headlong (Metropolitan) This British comic novel links an art-theft caper to both a philosophical inquiry into authenticity and an historical analysis of Breughel's...

James Galvin listen Download

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Fencing the Sky (Holt) Western American novelist James Galvin contrasts the eternal values of the natural world of his youth with the rapacity of the "land...

Scott Turow listen Download

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Scott Turow &quotPersonal Injuries&quot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This master of the legal thriller talks about the complexity of his characters-a complexity achieved by...

Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden listen Download

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 Jamaica Kincaid's beautiful notes on gardening uncover the same imperialistic and racist assumptions she exposes in her fiction.

Chuck Palahnuik listen Download

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Chuck Palahnuik &quotInvisible Monsters&quot (Norton) The author of The Fight Club gives an intense and raw description of his world view.

Jonathan Lethem listen Download

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Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday) The western, the hard-boiled mystery, the sci-fi epic; these are the screens behind which Jonathan Lethem's oedipal dramas loom.

Kurt Vonnegut listen Download

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Kurt Vonnegut &quotBagombo Snuff Box&quot (Putnam) Kurt Vonnegut began by writing conventional short stories. Here, he talks about the development of his wild style, his...