Bookworm

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Harriet Doerr Nov 01, 1993

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Consider This, Senora The best-selling novelist talks about writing school, writers who have influenced her, and the particular nature of her characters.

Brad Gooch Oct 25, 1993

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City Poet The life and hoopla of the New York poet Frank O'Hara is described by his biographer.

Joyce Carol Oates: Foxfire Oct 18, 1993

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Joyce Carol Oates discusses issues of feminism and narrative strategy in her novel about a girl gang, set in the late 50's.

Jules Feiffer Oct 11, 1993

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The Man in the Ceiling Feiffer talks about The Man in the Ceiling--the first novel for children that he has written as well as illustrated.

Barbara Kingsolver Oct 04, 1993

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Pigs in Heaven
Author Barbara Kingsolver discusses political fiction: the novelist's obligation to dramatize insoluble issues without falsely resolving them.

John Sanford Sep 27, 1993

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Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.

John Sanford Sep 20, 1993

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Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.

Sue Miller Sep 13, 1993

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For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.

James McCourt: Time Remaining Aug 30, 1993

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The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.

Anne Lamott Aug 23, 1993

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Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.