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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + Bookworm

Ron Hansen listen Download

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Atticus Ron Hansen has written a noir novel with theological underpinnings. Is the moral novelist a moral man?

David Foster Wallace listen Download

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Infinite Jest (Little, Brown and Company) David Foster Wallace has written the ultimate mega-meta novel, a 1078-page whopper. The surprise is that this mind-stunner may capture the imagination...

Jeff Noon listen Download

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Pollen Adventures in cyberspace. A first--Bookworm goes sci.fi. with the author of Vurt! Is there a boundary between science fiction and literature?

Robert Hass listen Download

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Human Wishes After an analysis of the role that pleasure and pain play in his poetry, our poet laureate discusses contemporary literary criticism.

Alan Lightman listen Download

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Good Benito; Einstein's Dreams Lightman discusses loneliness: the curse of the scientist and the rest of us, as well.

Dale Peck listen Download

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The Law of Enclosures A discussion about the strategies of structure--how Peck disassembles chronology to tell the story of an unhappy marriage.

Oscar Hijuelos listen Download

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Mr. Ives' Christmas Oscar Hijuelos on the difficulty of writing a contemporary tale of faith.

Salman Rushdie listen Download

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The Moor's Last Sigh Part I: The focus is on Salman Rushdie's writing: its themes, structures, techniques and styles. The subjects include mothers, love, cartoons,...

Blaise Cendrars listen Download

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Complete Poems; Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies Translators Ron Padgett and Garrett White on the work of the rip-roaring, fire-snorting French poet, Blaise Cendrars.

Barry Unsworth listen Download

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Morality Play History and fiction-writing. The Booker Prize winner talks about how he uses the past as a commentary on the present.

Philip Graham listen Download

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How to Read an Unwritten Language Graham began by writing prose poems, graduated to short stories and has no produced a novel. It's a...

Jack Gilbert listen Download

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The Great Fires:Poems 1982-1992The poet and adult passion: An improvisation on the nature of love, poetry's moral function and the finality of death.

Norman Mailer listen Download

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Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man Norman Mailer's examination of Picasso provokes a discussion of three Mailer obsessions: women, art and crime.

Joyce Carol Oates listen Download

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Zombie; What I Lived For   In two new novels, Joyce Carol Oates has created disturbing male narrators. How do such dark creations affect the...

Amy Tan listen Download

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The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan, an instinctual writer, discusses the gradual steps she has taken toward mastering the craft of novel-writing.