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Bookworm episodes
- 30 min
- John Ashbery and Ron Padgett on the works of Pierre Reverdy
Haunted House (Ashbery); Prose Poems
(Padgett) (both from Black Square Editions)The haunted, lonely prose-poetry of Pierre Reverdy has attracted many translators. Two of America's most extraordinary poets read and discuss their translations...
30 min - Lydia Davis
Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lydia Davis writes elegant prose pieces in which
basic confusions are described with authority and clarity.30 min - Joanna Scott
Everybody Loves Somebody (Back Bay Books)
Joanna Scott claims her collection of stories is a history of love, from World War I to the present.30 min - Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
Oates's most autobiographical novel and the culmination of her career-long themes and obsessions.
30 min - Christine Schutt
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer (Harcourt)
Prose impressionist Christine Schutt describes the painstaking intensity that allows her to perfect her cadences and the precision of her imagery. Her stories are built up draft upon draft, variation upon variation, until Schutt achieves a density that is both poetic and conclusive.30 min - John Banville (as Benjamin Black): Christine Falls
Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville has written the first in a series of thrillers, and he's even taken on an alias or, at least, a nom de plume.
30 min - John Ashbery
A Worldly Country (Ecco)
In this landmark conversation, John Ashbery talks about his fascination with nonsense and fantasy, beginning with Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Those books involve incomprehension, parody and an extreme use of non sequitur--qualities that for Ashbery define the way we live now.30 min - Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press)
The design and composition of this five hundred page picture book took Brian Selznick many years' work. Here, we talk about the influence of movies, especially French movies, especially the work of pioneer Georges Méliès. The talk about Méliès leads us to the spiritual mentors that haunt Selznick's vivid imagination.30 min - Howard Norman
Devotion (Houghton Mifflin)
Betrayal and forgiveness are subjects here. Howard Norman's signature melancholy pervades this exploration of romance, and he shows us how even people who are perfect for one another have a need to betray and forgive--but not forget, never forget.30 min
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