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Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh Mar 02, 1996

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The Moor's Last Sigh

Part I: The focus is on Salman Rushdie's writing: its themes, structures, techniques and styles. The subjects include mothers, love, cartoons, James Joyce and, only occasionally, the fatwa.

Part II: Rushdie on the art of layering: the organization of the swarms of characters, stories and styles that crawl, teem and fly through The Moor's Last Sigh.

Ron Padgett and Garrett White on Blaise Cendrars Feb 24, 1996

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Translators Ron Padgett and Garrett White on the work of the rip-roaring, fire-snorting French poet, Blaise Cendrars.

Barry Unsworth Feb 17, 1996

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Morality Play History and fiction-writing. The Booker Prize winner talks about how he uses the past as a commentary on the present.

Philip Graham Feb 10, 1996

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How to Read an Unwritten Language Graham began by writing prose poems, graduated to short stories and has no produced a novel. It's a special sort of a novel--mystical, philosophical and respectful of the language of inanimate objects.

Jack Gilbert Jan 27, 1996

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The Great Fires:Poems 1982-1992The poet and adult passion: An improvisation on the nature of love, poetry's moral function and the finality of death.

Norman Mailer Jan 20, 1996

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Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man

Norman Mailer's examination of Picasso provokes a discussion of three Mailer obsessions: women, art and crime.

Joyce Carol Oates: Zombie and What I Lived For Jan 13, 1996

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In two new novels, Joyce Carol Oates has created disturbing male narrators. How do such dark creations affect the author's life?

Amy Tan Jan 09, 1996

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