Bookworm

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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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Daniel Halpern Jun 13, 1994

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Editor, Antaeus magazine Halpern talks about the life history of a literary magazine--and his own collected poetry.

Valerie Martin Jun 06, 1994

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The Great Divorce The writer discusses her complete works, from her early interest in depression and neurosis to her current interest in metamorphosis and transformation.

Caryl Phillips May 30, 1994

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Crossing the River Slavery is the controlling theme in this discussion of history, family and the African-American experience.

Robert Olen Butler May 23, 1994

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They Whisper The politics of gender in fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Butler discusses the difficulties surrounding a male writer---s creation of female desires and fantasies.

June Jordan May 16, 1994

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Haruko/Love Poems; Technical Difficulties The author talks about the relationship between her essays and her poetry--that is, the contradictions between political progressivism and personal truth-telling.

Louis Jones May 09, 1994

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Particles and Luck Modern science and its implications for the fiction-writer: how metaphors from physics and chemistry have shaped Louis Jones--- new novel.

Ethan Canin May 02, 1994

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The Palace Thief Author Ethan Canin discusses his inclination to avoid writer's tricks as he matures in his craft...

Nicholson Baker Apr 25, 1994

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The Fermata
Writer Nicholson Baker expresses his surprise at the shock with which critics have greeted this novel, in which a young man discovers that he can stop time. Sexuality, regression, ---mobius-strip--- personality structures and infantile fantasy all play a part in the discussion.

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, Part II Apr 18, 1994

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In the second of this two-part conversation, novelist Margaret Atwood takes relates women found in poetry, fable and religion to contemporary feminist narrative.

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, Part I Apr 11, 1994

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Author Margaret Atwood discusses her literary origins--fairy tales and romantic literature -- and The Robber Bride in the first of this two-part conversation.

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