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- Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
With Sea of Poppies, a trilogy begins! Few know that the opium that fueled the Opium Wars was grown and processed in India...
30 min - Marilynne Robinson, Part II
Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers andtheir families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, JackBoughton, a man who would have been called a ne'er-do-well when wordslike ne'er-do-well were common...30 min - Marilynne Robinson, Part I
Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Marilynne Robinson had not published a novel in twenty years when she wrote Gilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. How peculiar, interesting and lovely that she should follow it so quickly with Home...30 min - An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
Jerk, a play, from a story by Dennis Cooper, directed by Gisèle Vienne
Our series closes with American writer Dennis Cooper, who livesand writes in Paris. His work is believed to continue the Frenchlineage of poète maudits (outlaw poets) a tradition that includesBaudelaire, Rimbaud and Sade.30 min - Jonathan Carroll
The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Although he would never want us to say so, Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for the supernaturally inclined.30 min - David Foster Wallace
Web exclusive: The terrible and sad impact of David Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the KCRW studios, fresh from the publication of his breakthrough novel, Infinite Jest. He was brilliant and charming—and his death is an enormous loss to American literature.
30 min - Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead)
What brought the indomitable Sarah Vowell to write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes of The Brady Bunch and Happy Days, to be sure, but also...30 min - An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
Grégoire Bouillier The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin)
Olivier Cadiot Colonel Zoo ( Green Integer)
Marc Cholodenko Mordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive)
Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three Frenchnovelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice,intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new Frenchnovel.Note: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.30 min - Diane Johnson
Lulu in Marrakech (Dutton)
Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in acomic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the authorstands, but not with Diane Johnson...30 min - Francine Prose: Goldengrove
Francine Prose is full of surprises in speaking of her newest
novel, Goldengrove It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister hasdrowned....30 min
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