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- Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage)
Peter Carey captures the fated life of the Australian outlaw-hero Ned Kelly in thrilling run-on sentences: the world looms up, sudden and alive in phrase after breathless phrase. Here, he talks about the evolution of this springing, spirited voice.30 min - John Burnham SchwartzClaire Marvel
(Doubleday)
John Burnham Schwartz has written a contemporary romance, complete with obsession, nightmare and a
life-altering vacation in a deserted French barn-but with a catch...30 min - David MitchellNumber 9 Dream
(Random House)
David Mitchell, a radiant and gifted young writer, places his work at the center of a barrage of influences...30 min - Richard Ford
A Multitude of Sins (Knopf)
Richard Ford, finds in adultery, his most recent subject, traces of old Emersonian independence. But he still considers his newest heroes to be "hurtling to their doom."30 min - Marc EstrinInsect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
(BlueHen Books)
This first novel by enterprising novelist Marc Estrinintroduces Gregor Samsa, Kafka's famous roach, to the monstrosities of the twentieth century....
30 min - Library of AmericaLibrary of America (Geoffrey O'Brien, editor in chief and Max Rudin, publisher) Library of America is a publisher whose mandate is to keep American classics in print. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, we'll explore the Library's surprising new definitions of what is American and what is classic. Are crime novels, screenplays, song lyrics and the work of Russian -migr-s included? For more information about the publisher, go to LibraryOfAmerica.org.30 min
- William Kennedy
Roscoe (Viking)
Truth, when it disappears from one's public life, also tends to be unavailable in one's personal life. Pulitzer prize-winner William Kennedy talks about his greatest rascal yet, a politician to whom the word truth is anathema...
30 min - Curtis WhiteRequiem
(Dalky Archive Press)
Curtis White has created comedy from degeneration by counterpointing Biblical stories, biographies of Classical composers, and the e-mailed sexploits of pornographic web-site users..
30 min - Robert Creeley
Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (New Directions)
On the occasion of a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Robert Creeley discusses the many influences on his singular poetry: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky and Robert Duncan. In addition, he talks about the love of family and friends that has united his influences and his past into a "company."
30 min - Sigrid Nunez
For Rouenna (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Sigrid Nunez's books reveal the secrets of lives that have fallen through the cracks....
30 min
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