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- James Wood
How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This conversation is characterized by indirection. Critic James Wood seems to be responding to accusations made against him by other reviewers...30 min - An American Bookworm in Paris, Part III
Pierre Alféri: Oxo (Burning Deck) and Natural Gaits ( Sun & Moon)
Emmanuel Carrère
Class Trip & The Mustache (Picador) and The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception (Picador)
In this episode of our ongoing series, the American Bookworm leavesphilosophy and politics and makes his way to his true loves: poetry andfiction...Note: More installments of an American Bookworm in Paris will air over the next few months.
30 min - Art Spiegelman
Breakdowns (Pantheon)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! is the subtitle of this new book, and we talk about the kind of young %@&*! Art Spiegelman was...30 min - Horacio Castellanos Moya
Senselessness, translated by Katherine Silver (New Directions)
Castellanos Moya's first novel to be translated into English is a jet black tragic-comedy...30 min - David Markson
The Last Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard)
David Markson has invented his own "personal genre." His novelspresent collaged panoramas of the travails of art and artists—the badreviews, the rivalries, the life-long neglect, the impoverished deaths. His juxtapositions can be comic or tragic.30 min - Annie Proulx
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner)
Annie Proulx's new collection is a stew of tall tales, romantic sagebrush sagas, and genuinely affecting stories of survival on the range.* Language Advisory
30 min - An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II
Camille de Toledo: Coming of Age at the End of History (Soft Skull)
The young French critic, novelist and filmmaker Camille de Toledo tells the sad /exuberant story of young French intellectuals growing up at the end of everything.30 min - An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris
Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (University of Minnesota Press)
Our tour begins at Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore with a long
tradition of helping American writers in Paris. Then, it's on to François Cussetand how French Theory found its bastion and stronghold in AmericanUniversities.30 min - A Celebration of the Work of Swiss Writer Robert Walser
A tribute to the great (and virtually unknown) Swiss writer Robert Walser, who
influenced Kafka and inspired Hermann Hesse. Writers Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg and Wayne Koestenbaum read, discuss and worship Walser, a writer who is like a mousethat roared—small and fragile but out-of-this-world outrageous30 min - Francoise Mouly
Editor of Toon Books Françoise Mouly describes the new children's books she's bringing into the world...
30 min
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