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Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work May 07, 2020

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Benjamin Moser recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography Sontag: Her Life and Work.
In this show from the archives, he talks about Susan Sontag‘s ideology: reading more books, going to more plays, traveling more, learning more, taking learning seriously, and taking culture seriously.

Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll Apr 30, 2020

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Daniel Kehlmann describes his new novel, Tyll, as dark, frightening, and murky—in a good way.

Rob Doyle: Threshold Apr 23, 2020

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Youthful nihilism, contradictory impulses, preferences and desires catch up with Rob Doyle in his explicitly autobiographical novel Threshold.

Ariana Reines: A Sand Book Apr 16, 2020

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Ariana Reines discusses her A Sand Book poetry being centered around a theme of hiding: running away and trying to escape.

Charles North: Everything and Other Poems Apr 09, 2020

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Charles North describes Everything and Other Poems as “messy poetry” without the formal demands of his earlier work.

Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing Apr 02, 2020

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Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing shifts its scale from the cosmos to viruses.

Rebecca Solnit: Recollections of My Nonexistence Mar 26, 2020

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Recollections of My Nonexistence is a personal, cultural, political, and journalistic hybrid narrative about the formative years in the life of Rebecca Solnit.

Stephen Wright: Processed Cheese Mar 19, 2020

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Stephen Wright’s Processed Cheese finds hilarity in the tragedy of contemporary life.

Jenny Offill: Weather Mar 12, 2020

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Jenny Offill’s Weather is a book about people living very much in our times.

Steven Sater: Alice By Heart Mar 05, 2020

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Steven Sater’s Alice By Heart wants to reaffirm the power of the imagination, and inspire readers to reignite the wonder in themselves.