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- Alex GarlandAlex Garland "The; Tesseract" (Riverhead) In this unusual interview, the popular young English novelist (The Beach) presents the secret purpose of his work: a closely reasoned defense of atheism.30 min
- Lois Ann YamanakaHeads by Harry
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Asian-American Lois-Ann Yamanaka evokes the melding of native traditions with tourist pop culture that characterized her Hawaiian childhood.30 min - Ian McEwanAmsterdam
(Doubleday)
Articulate and sinister Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan discusses the role of pathology (and that poet of pathology, Sigmund Freud) in his work.30 min - Thom JonesThom Jones "Sonny; Liston Was a Friend of Mine" (Little Brown) Thom Jones, famous for his short stories, brings his trademark dementia and wooziness to a discussion of his own writing.30 min
- David Remnick and Mary F. Corey: Through a Monocle
Social historian Mary F. Corey joins David Remnic, the new editor of the New Yorker, for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.
Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Mid-Century (Harvard). A social historian joins the new editor of the New Yorker for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.
30 min - Curtis White
Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive)
This novel describes a man who remembers his father mostly through the TV shows they watched together...
30 min - Marina WarnerMarina Warner "No; Go the Bogeyman" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The dark side of fairy tales. A conversation about the cultural persistence of the threateners of children, ogres, cannibals, vampires and kidnapers-with a special guest appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.30 min
- Harry MathewsHarry Mathews "Oulipo; Compendium" (Atlas) Poet-novelist Harry Mathews discusses a unique literary movement and shows how strong emotion can penetrate even the most whimsical and arbitrary forms.30 min
- Bret Easton EllisBret Easton Ellis "Glamorama;" (Knopf) He has been rejected by critics and reviled by Gen X, yet Bret Easton Ellis reaches to the core of an eerie American phenomenon: the postmodern fusion of terror and irony.30 min
- Mitch SisskindMitch Sisskind "Divine; Deception: The Inner Gender of Gender" (Earl University Press) A maverick scholar unravels the secret hoaxes that have masked the sexuality of many authors of Western Literature-from the Bible to the internet.31 min
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