Today’s theme is family secrets. We talk first with art historian Benjamin Binstock about VERMEER’S FAMILY SECRETS: Genius, Discovery and the Unknown Apprentice. Then, a poem by Constatijn Huygens. And mystery writer Hallie Ephron delves into another family’s secrets in her debut solo novel, NEVER TELL A LIE.
Articles Tagged ‘ Fiction ’
Swerling’s CITY OF GOD and Michelson’s AS GOOD AS ANYBODY
January 17th, 2009
We talk to novelist Beverly Swerling about the latest in her historical series about Old New York, CITY OF GOD. Also, children’s book author Richard Michelson, tells us about his latest, AS GOOD AS ANYBODY: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom.
Best of 2008
January 5th, 2009
It was tough, but we did it: we winnowed down the list of wonderful guests and their books to the Ten Best Books featured on Writer’s Voice in 2008. This week’s show features excerpts from our interviews with four of them. In the fiction category, we talk with Kevin Patterson (CONSUMPTION) and Elizabeth Strout (OLIVE [...]
H.G. Adler’s THE JOURNEY, Eating Tips for the Holidays, and a Thanksgiving story
December 2nd, 2008
Peter Filkins talks about THE JOURNEY, a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature by acclaimed author and survivor H. G. Adler which Filkins translated. Food psychologist Brian Wansink gives us tips on how to keep the pounds off during the Holiday season. And finally, Native American storyteller Marge Bruchac tells us what really happened during the first Thanksgiving.
Peter Manseau, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER and E.H. Winthrop, DECEMBER
November 9th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks to Peter Manseau about his novel SONGS FOR THE BUTCHERS DAUGHTER and to Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop about her new novel, DECEMBER.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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