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November 17, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
Writer Vladimir Nabokov is shown in Montreux, Switzerland, in Dec. 1976. (AP Photo)
Vladimir Nabokov's last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how . . .
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December 14, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
We'll talk with “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” author Alexander McCall Smith about his latest work, on wartime and music.
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Alexander McCall Smith , bestselling author . . .
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December 17, 2009 08:36 PM EST --
A big new biography of Charles Dickens shows how he made art of rough beginnings, and his genius for the hard knock life.
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Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature . . .
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December 07, 2009 10:00 PM EST --
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Just in time for the holidays — the best books of 2009.
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Laura Miller , book critic for Salon.com and one of its co-founders. She is an occasional . . .
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November 24, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
From the Bible to Proust to everyday life, we’ll look at the anthropology of thankfulness, of gratitude.
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Margaret Visser , author of “The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and . . .
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November 25, 2009 03:12 PM EST --
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Originally broadcast: May 5, 2009
The legendary Gourmet magazine is going away, a victim of the recession. But its longtime editor-in-chief, famed food writer Ruth . . .
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December 06, 2009 08:48 PM EST --
A high-drama detective story behind the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Guests:
Eric Siblin , award-winning journalist and filmaker and former pop music critic for The Montreal . . .
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December 08, 2008 05:00 PM EST --
Jhumpa Lahiri dazzled. Dexter Filkins brought the war home. Toni Morrison found "Mercy." We’ll look back on these and many more of the best reads of 2008.
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Joining us from . . .
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December 19, 2008 04:24 PM EST --
From the “Huck Finn” to “The Feminine Mystique,” author and critic Jay Parini talks about the books that really changed America.
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Jay Parini , poet, novelist, . . .
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May 27, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
We'll talk with actor, writer, and performer Eric Bogosian about sex, death, celebrity, talk radio, and his new novel, "Perforated Heart."
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June 03, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
Summer's here, and it's time for a great read -- or two, or three. We'll ask top critics what's on their must-read list.
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August 06, 2009 08:24 PM EDT --
It’s been called "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century." We’ll talk with the artist behind it, and the reporter who tells his story.
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Laney Salisbury is the author . . .
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August 16, 2009 06:24 PM EDT --
Master storyteller Pat Conroy talks about his first novel in 14 years, "South of Broad," and much more.
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Pat Conroy joins us from Birmingham, Alabama. He’s the . . .
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August 17, 2009 11:12 PM EDT --
Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo on his new novel of midlife crackup and the search for happiness: "That Old Cape Magic.”
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Richard Russo , pulitzer-prize winning novelist . . .
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August 18, 2009 07:00 PM EDT --
A city boy goes goat farming. We’ll get close to land, cheese, and pasture with the author of “Goat Song.”
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Brad Kessler is the author of “Goat Song: A . . .
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August 28, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
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New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni has left his restaurant beat. We’ll ask about his new memoir, “Born Round,” and about how people eat when they eat out. . . .
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September 02, 2009 11:24 PM EDT --
Anthropologist Tim Pauketat takes us back a thousand years to Cahokia, the ancient city on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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Tim Pauketat , professor of anthropology at . . .
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September 08, 2009 06:12 PM EDT --
Novelist Nicholson Baker’s humorous take on poetry, rhyme, and the tortured lives of poets.
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Nicholson Baker is the author of seven novels and four works of nonfiction, among . . .
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September 20, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
A page from Carl Jung's "Red Book," 1914-1930, to be published next month. (Courtesy of W.W. Norton)
De-coding Carl Jung. The secret diary of Jung’s own psychic travels goes public. We’ll . . .
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October 06, 2009 08:48 PM EDT --
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The best time to do everything. Buy a house. Go to Disneyland. Take a nap. We’ll get the scoop.
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Mark Di Vincenzo joins us from Hampton, Virginia. . . .
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