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Bookworm episodes
- Michael Chabon
Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax Books)
A magical conversation with Michael Chabon about children's literature...
31 min - Frances SherwoodThe Book of Splendor (Norton) History, hilarity, romance and spirituality find a meeting place in the Prague of 1601. A simple Jewish orphan falls in love with a golem, and an emperor searches for the secret of eternal life: Frances Sherwood explores the path from history to fantasy, from societal regulation to sexual liberation.30 min
- Paul AusterThe Book of Illusions
(Holt)
Paul Auster expresses his preference for mysterious clarity over "clever" literary effects in The Book of Illusions, a metaphysical thriller about a mysterious filmmaker...30 min - Nick Tosches
In the Hand of Dante (Little, Brown)
Nick Tosches, a veteran tough guy, tells us what happens when the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy falls into the hands of the Mafia...
30 min - Adam Haslett
You Are Not a Stranger Here (Doubleday)
Viewed together, the short stories in Adam Haslett's bravura first collection present a fugue of obsessions and concerns: mental illness, surrogate parents, suppressed or uncontrollable desires, and the search for a way to order experience....
30 min - Anthony Lane
Nobody's Perfect (Knopf)
We pursue the New Yorker's critic through the dark woods of his literary and cinematic interests, finally emerging into a clearing as Anthony Lane reveals his longstanding love for the world of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner and Blandings Castle...
30 min - Mary WoronovNiagara (Serpent?s Tail) The Amazon dominatrix of Warhol-superstardom has become an impressive novelist, specializing in primal Noir fiction. Her feminist archetypes, her dangerous sexualized landscapes, her fantasies of revenge and retribution all reveal the strategies of an artist who transforms rage into visions of liberation.30 min
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Part I
Having returned to his native Brooklyn after a more than 20 years in California, Gilbert Sorrentino's new books span the continent with an unrelenting experimental style...
31 min - Ben Marcus: Notable American WomenBen Marcus, a younger member of the avant-garde, talks about some of the devices that have structured his books...30 min
- James McCourt: Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver LakeNovelist James McCaourt constructs the complicated personality of a movie goddess in retreat.30 min
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