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Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus listen Download

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After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus .

Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia listen Download

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A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...

Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2 listen Download

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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...

Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1 listen Download

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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...

UpClose: Sapphire listen Download

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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."

Dora Malech: Say So listen Download

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Dora Malech explores the violence of relationships...

Chris Adrian: The Great Night listen Download

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Oncologist and novelist Chris Adrian talks about how his need to tell and hear stories has helped him through his difficult work with children.

John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun listen Download

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John Sayles on how a writer gathers knowledge, the language, the unusual perspectives and the humanity to illuminate the whole arc of our history...

Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition listen Download

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Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer celebrates his first published essay in the New Yorker. He tells us how his amateur interest in jazz led him...

Louis B. Jones: Radiance listen Download

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Radiance (Counterpoint) Mark Perdue, a physics professor who we first met in Louis B. Jones' Particles of Luck, is at the farther fringe of a complete...

John Steppling on theater, 'Fever Dreams' listen Download

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The occasion of a Los Angeles theater festival offers playwright John Steppling (Phantom Luck) the chance to talk about theater in general and what's wrong...

Ann Patchett: State of Wonder listen Download

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Ann Patchett has written a book you can't put down. State of Wonder is a version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in South America...

Francine Prose: My New American Life listen Download

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My New American Life is the immigrant story told in a new way. Francine Prose's touching and funny character, Lula, is used to suffering --...

Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question listen Download

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The Finkler Question is the winner of this year's Booker Prize, an amazing novel in that it's many things at once: comic, melancholic, philosophical and...

Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story listen Download

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Unable to sleep after her husband, Ray Smith, died three years ago, Joyce Carol Oates spent the night keeping a journal of her day to...