Associate Producer, 'Bookworm'
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Alan Howard
Producer
FROM Alan Howard
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Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories Again Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates herself as a masterful and electric writer, in her new collection of seven stories, Your Duck Is My Duck.
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John Wray: Godsend John Wray discusses writing about the extremes of subjectivity, and breaking the reader of expectations in his new novel, Godsend.
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Katharine Weber: Still Life with Monkey Dramatic, emotional, and philosophical, Katherine Weber’s, Still Life with Monkey, is a profound book written in the old style, with depths orchestrated by the author.
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Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered In Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, char acters feel as if they did what was right in life, but get a bad deal at the end of their lives.
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Eileen Myles: Evolution Evolution is a collection of all-new material by Eileen Myles, whose inspired poetry is a form of communication.
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Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again Ben Fountain writes with equal opportunity vexation, trying to make sense of what we’re doing in our lives, in his new book Beautiful Country Burn Again.
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Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success is about a hedge-fund manager billionaire who has lost track of what he once cared about and loved.
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Patrick deWitt: French Exit French Exit by Patrick deWitt, a vastly amusing novel about a spider woman.
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LA Observed
As teachers strike, political heavyweights bide their time The L.A. teachers' strike is now well underway and both sides are waiting to see who will budge. Others are looking to their elected leaders, from L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to newly minted Governor Gavin Newsom, for help. But can they make a difference, especially with an issue that has so much at stake?
Opening the Curtain
Sleeping with your son Remember that cool kid in high school? The one with the awesome jacket and that effortless edge. He was something of a rebel: used nasty language in just the right way. Made it all look so easy. Now remember that other kid who tried to copy him? Same jacket, same foul language but he couldn’t quite pull it off?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How the teachers strike affects low-income minority students Negotiations are back on between the teachers and LAUSD. We look at what they should be talking about with an education consultant who’s seen both sides. Also, what happened at two Central LA school where teachers met with parents?