Ed Goldberg interviews Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists, a novel
about a newspaper in Rome and the characters that staff it.
Tom Rachman was born in 1974 in London, but grew up in Vancouver. He studied
cinema at the University of Toronto and completed a Master'...
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Host Jim Schumock speaks with writer Dinaw Mengistu about his second novel,
"How to Read the Air," in which Ethiopian parents, estranged from each other
in a violent, loveless marriage, each strive more for America's security
than for its dreams.
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Mary Robinette Kowal the author
of Shades of Milk and Honey, an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman
ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of
glamour is considered an essential skill for a lad...
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with Mary Robinette Kowal the author
of Shades of Milk and Honey, an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman
ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of
glamour is considered an essential skill for a l...
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Distinguished writer Alice Hoffman talks about her new book, The Red Garden,
a collection of linked fictions about a small town in Massachusetts where a
garden holds the secrets of many lives.
Alice Hoffman has published a total of eighteen novels, two books of short
fi...
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Host Marianne Barisonek interviews William Gibson, whose novel Neuromancer
launched the cyberpunk generation. They discuss his latest novel, Zero
History.
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Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with David Vann about his debut novel Caribou
Island. Set on a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai
Peninsula Caribou Island captures the drama and pathos of a husband and
wife whose bitter love, failed dreams, and tragic pa...
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Host David Naimon speaks with writer Anthony Doerr about his latest book,
Memory Wall. Doerr is the author of three other books, The Shell
Collector, About Grace, andFour Seasons in Rome.
Doerr’s short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been
anthologized in T...
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Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Kenneth Sharpe, co-author with Barry
Schwartz of Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. In the
book, Schwartz and Sharpe make a reasoned appeal for wisdom in a world gone
mad with ineffectual rules and rampant bureaucr...
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In Part 2 of today's special hour long Between the Covers host Crystal
Leighty speaks with Hazel Rowley, author of FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR: An
Extraordinary Marriage.
In this biography, Rowley sheds new light on the first modern marriage in the
White House. Award-wining a...
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