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- Susan Sontag
In America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
With In America, Susan Sontag embarks on an exploration of America through the eyes of a great Polish actress. What is an American? What is the role of a woman in the American imagination? A conversation about the invention and re-invention of a woman's identity. This is the last in our nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."30 min - Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde
The life of Marilyn Monroe inspires Joyce Carol Oates, vast accomplishment in Blond and provides an opening for our conversation about a feminine icon. Part 8 of the nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."
30 min - Ana CastilloAna Castillo Peel My Love Like and Onion (Doubleday) Castillo's new novel is about an aging and crippled flamenco dancer. We talk about the powerful sensuality that keeps the dancer vital despite age, infirmity and the demands of an exacting art. Coming from a family of curanderas, Castillo focuses, as well on her experiences with "the; healing arts." Part 7 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;30 min
- Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid on "the feminine arts," from reproduction to literary creation. Part 6 of the nine-part series "Women, Writing and the Imagination."
30 min - Gioia TimpanelliGioia Timpanelli Sometimes the Soul (Vintage) Storytelling iswhat later becomes literature, says professional storyteller GioiaTimpanelli. Here, she looks at her novellas and their roots in fairy tales,myths and the oral tradition. Part 5 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;30 min
- Rikki DucornetRikki Ducornet The Fan-Maker?s Inquisition (Holt) Rikki Ducornetclaims that the imagination has no gender and no limitations. In aninvestigation of its dangers, we focus on the Marquis de Sade, theextermination of the Maya and erotic art. Part 4 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;30 min
- Pamela HoustonPamela Houston A Little More About Me (Norton) Houston identifiesherself as a ?human animal? and her writing as an exploration of thedistance she feels from conventional ideas about gender. Part 3 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;30 min
- Annie LeibovitzAnnie Leibovitz Women (Random House) The photographer talks abouther identification with her subjects: women and what their faces say aboutwomen?s lives. Part 2 of the nine-part series "Women;, Writing and the Imagination".;30 min
- Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune
In the first of a series on women's writing and imagination, Isabel Allende uses feminist terms to describe her history of the California Gold Rush. (Part 1 of 9)
30 min - Roddy DoyleRoddy Doyle A Star Called Henry (Viking) Roddy Doyle, novelist of the Irish working class, takes a picaresque gallop through "the; Troubles" in an historical novel about an inconveniently heroic sod.30 min
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