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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Bookworm

Stephen Dixon listen Download

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Interstate An interview about emotion in fiction. Dixon discusses his Dostoyevskyan ambition to render his complex extremity of feeling about the death of a...

Michael Ryan listen Download

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Secret Life The poet discusses the difficulties of writing accurately and artistically about his ongoing recovery from sexually obsessive behavior.

Mark Helprin listen Download

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Memoir from Antproof Case   Mark Helprin on the legacy of fathers...

Peter Ackroyd listen Download

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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree Penny-dreadfuls, transvestitism, the English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey and Grand Guignol are touched on in this conversation about...

Richard Ford listen Download

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Independence Day In this conversation about one novelist's development, Richard Ford describes the emotional confidence he needed to complete his break-through novel.

Ana Castillo listen Download

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My Father Was a Toltec The barriers of language, ethnicity, class and gender: the challenges faced by a Latina writer.

Betty Comden listen Download

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Off Stage Betty Comden who, with Adolph Green, his written for some of the theater's great clowns--Phil Silvers, Bert Lahr, Judy Holliday, Rosalind Russell, Nancy...

Russell Banks: Rule of the Bone listen Download

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This novel of punk-adolescence recalls the great American coming-of-age novels. In the examination of the voice of Bank's hero, homage is paid to his literary...

Norman Mailer listen Download

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Oswald's Tale   Norman Mailer on the skills a novelist brings to the assembly of a historical record...

Eduardo Galeano listen Download

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(Getty Series) Galeano discusses journalism, testimony, folklore and history-writing. He shows how each reveals a facet of the life of the writer-revolutionary.

Anchee Min listen Download

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(Getty Series) The author talks about the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution and her quest to discover a way to write truthfully about Mao's China.

Greg Sarris & Dorothy Allison listen Download

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(Getty Series) A conversation about &quotThem&quot and &quotUs.&quot Allison and Sarris talk about illegitimacy and the status of the &quotoutsider&quot in both American culture...

Isabel Allende listen Download

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(Getty Series) History, imagination and memory: Allende states that she does not make a distinction between reality and imagination and then discusses their fusion in her...

Quincy Troupe listen Download

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(Getty Series)Troupe, who co-authored the controversial, award-winning autobiography of Miles Davis, speaks about the process of inhabiting another person's memories. He explores music as...

Sandra Cisneros listen Download

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(Getty Series) Cisneros describes an autobiographical childhood incident and demonstrates how she transformed it into her most popular short story, &quotEleven.&quot