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- Sigrid Nunez
Naked Sleeper (Harper Collins)
Sigrid Nunez on gender and narrative strategy, the sub-genre known as the "woman's weepie."
30 min - Frank McCourtFrank McCourt Angela's Ashes (Scribner) Memories have becomes trendy, but Frank McCourt's emotional masterpiece bucks the trend. A conversation about how this powerful work -- comprised of comedy and pain, told in the beautifully sustained tones of an Irish tenor -- finally came to be.30 min
- Joan DidionThe Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf)Part II of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los Angeles, Miami, New York)and times (the sixties, the seventies, the eighties).30 min
- Joan Didion
The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf)
Part I of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los Angeles, Miami, New York) and times (the sixties, the seventies, the eighties). Topics include the influences of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and her contemporary, Joyce Carol Oates, the nature of resonance and the role of accident and intuition in the writing of novels.30 min - Ellen BrodkeyEllen Brodkey This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey (Metropolitan Books) Ellen Brodkey, widow and editor, joins Bookworm in a memorial to the life and death of American writer Harold Brodkey on the occasion of the publication of his AIDS journal.30 min
- E. Annie Proulx
Accordion Crimes (Scribner)
In her newest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx presents an historical cavalcade: her vision of the violence that has been perpetuated against emergingminority cultures.30 min - Thom JonesThom Jones Cold Snap (Little Brown) More than a decade passed between the author's stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the publication of his first book. How does a writer endure the hard times?.30 min
- Lucille CliftonLucille Clifton The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions) Her influences, inclinaiton toward short poems and decision to tell "the; terrible stories" are discussed by the poet.30 min
- Terry Tempest WilliamsFrom Idea to Publication: Nature Writing Today A panel discussion with author Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (Ecco); Orion Magazine editor George Russell; and literary agent Elizabeth Grossman.31 min
- Richard SheltonGoing Back to Bisbee Richard Shelton (University of Arizona Press) The winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction discusses his memoir of the desert of the American Southwest.29 min
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