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- Mark Strand: Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More
Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More
(Turtle Point)
We defy you not to laugh when you hear these poems from the previously sepulchral laureate Mark Strand...
30 min - Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)
In this second interview about Little Lit, its creators, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, remind us that comic books are not just for adults. They talk about the new maturity that leads underground artists to take the safety pins out of their noses and use them in their babies' diapers.30 min - Michael Ondaatje: Anil's GhostThe reticent Michael Ondaatje becomes more revealing. Here he goes so far as to formulate his artistic credo and even makes comments that truly define his unusual vision.30 min
- Diane Johnson
Le Marriage (Dutton)
The bird-like flutings of Diane Johnson's amused voice animate this merry duet about France, comedy, depravity and marriage.
30 min - Sherman AlexieSherman Alexie The Toughest Indian in the World (Grove Atlantic) Sherman Alexie is the cynical, irreverent Indian writer (he does not use the term Native American) whose rough, funny stories have led to more than one brush with the tribal elders. Hear him laugh at the kind of people who romanticize "the; rez."30 min
- Zadie SmithZadie Smith White Teeth (Random House) Young Zadie Smith's dizzying comic take on multi-racial London. Her background, she says, was so mixed that P.G. Wodehouse's pure-bloods seemed to her to be foreign and "exotic.;"30 min
- Mark Strand: A Blizzard of One
NOTE: Poet Mark Strand has died at the age of 80. He was a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States. He appeared on Bookworm in 2000.
A brow-furrowing conversation with a former poet laureate Mark Strand...
29 min - Jane Smiley
Horse Heaven (Knopf)
At a gallop, Jane Smiley tells us everything she knows about horse breeding, horse racing, horse trading...30 min - 30 min
- J.R. SalamancaJ.R. Salamanca That Summer's Trance (Welcome Rain Press) Salamanca's first book in fourteen years, That Summer's Trance, a shimmering book about love, desire and betrayal, bears the erotic imprint and the tragic sense of life that readers first encountered in his classic novel Lilith30 min
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