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Articles Tagged ‘ Fiction ’
Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
October 4th, 2008
Francesca talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind about . Also, Elizabeth Winthrop on , the story of an 11-year old girl working in the textile mills of Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century.
T.J. English, HAVANA NOCTURNE and Marisa Silver, GOD OF WAR
September 23rd, 2008
Francesca talks with journalist T. J. English about the Mafia’s Cuba experiment, the parallels between the Mob and legal capitalism, and the role Mob activities played in spurring the Cuban Revolution into being. His bestselling book is HAVANA NOCTURNE: How the Mob owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution.
Also, Marisa Silver tells us about [...]
New Fiction from Paul Auster and Jennifer Haigh; Michael Klare on Russia-Georgia War
August 5th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with acclaimed novelist Paul Auster about his new work of fiction, MAN IN THE DARK.
Also, Jennifer Haigh tells us about her new novel, THE CONDITION.
And we’ll also air an excerpt from an interview we did last year with Michael Klare about his book, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET, THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF [...]
John Kessel, BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
August 1st, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon speaks first with speculative fiction writer John Kessel, who makes thought experiments about real issues by placing them in imaginary contexts.
His latest collection, , brings fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism to bear on the relations between the sexes, the conundrums of time travel, the windfalls of fortune, terrorism, and democracy.
Kessel [...]
New Fiction from Margot Livesy and Ellen Cooney
July 1st, 2008
We talk with novelists Margot Livesey ( THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET) and Ellen Cooney (Lambrusco).
Livesey’s stunning new novel is about love, loss and the ambiguities of existence. Told from the point of view of four narrators, it explores how they try to make sense of their world when their lives are upended by [...]
Margot Livesey, HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET
June 23rd, 2008
We talk with Margot Livesey about THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET, her stunning new novel about love, loss and the ambiguities of existence. Told from the point of view of four narrators, it explores how they try to make sense of their world when their lives are upended by the unexpected–and how their human frailties [...]
Louise Erdrich’s THE PLAGUE OF DOVES and more…
May 29th, 2008
Louise Erdrich says she worked on her latest work of fiction, for nineteen years before publication. It was worth the wait. This week Francesca talks with Louise Erdrich and journalist Jeremy Scahill about his book, .
THE HAKAWATI and SO WRONG FOR SO LONG
May 20th, 2008
We talk with Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, . Framed around the story of a family in modern-day Lebanon, the novel weaves fiction, fable and epic into a wonderful tapestry.
And journalist and editor Greg Mitchell tells us about how the press and the punditocracy failed the public on Iraq. His book is [...]
OLIVE KITTREDGE and THE END OF THE JEWS
May 8th, 2008
Francesca interviews novelist Elizabeth Strout about her Pulitzer Prize winning book, OLIVE KITTERIDGE. And Adam Mansbach talks about his new novel, THE END OF THE JEWS.
Kevin Patterson and John Hanson Mitchell
February 17th, 2008
As a physician, Kevin Patterson treats Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. As a novelist, he explores the collision between the old and the new in that region.
His debut novel richly details the life of the Inuit as they transition from traditional nomadic life to settlement in towns built for them by the Canadian [...]
Novelist Geraldine Brooks and Poet Laureate Al Young
February 11th, 2008
We interview Geraldine Brooks about PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, a novel based on the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah. Also, California Poet Laureate Al Young tells us about his new book-and-cd set, SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES.
Russell Banks and Tahmima Anam
February 4th, 2008
Acclaimed novelist Russell Banks tells Writer’s Voice about his new novel, THE RESERVE. We also talk with Tahmima Anam about her terrific debut novel, A GOLDEN AGE.
Russell Banks’s new novel THE RESERVE is “part love story, part murder mystery”. Taking place in 1936, not long before the World War II, the novel explores questions of [...]
EVERY PAST THING and AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY
January 21st, 2008
We talk with author Susan Cheever about AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY and Pamela Thompson tells us about her debut novel, EVERY PAST THING.
Today’s show begins in the early nineteenth century and ends in that century’s last year-November, 1899. We start our time travel with our first guest Susan Cheever. She takes us to Concord, MA where a [...]
EVERY PAST THING, by Pamela Thompson
January 17th, 2008
EVERY PAST THING, by Pamela Thompson
(excerpt by permission of the author and publisher)
Publisher: Unbridled Books; 1 edition (September 29, 2007)
It isn’t like they say—whoever they be—about Death, or about Knowledge.
That is Edwin’s first thought, on his back, under the apple tree, looking up at the blue sky. The frightening, dear sky. If he [...]
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