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Show #1,035 - week of May 19 Patrick McDonnell - McDonnell's comic strip "Mutts" appears in 700 newspapers around the world. He's also on the executive board of the Humane Society, and talks about his new book Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed. |
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Show #1,034 - week of May 12 Chinua Achebe Tribute - This year celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart. This is a special broadcast of an event in his honor. |
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Show #1,033 - week of May 5 Siri Hustvedt - Hustvedt's intriguing new novel The Sorrows of an American, features a middle-aged brother and sister, living in New York but originally from Minnesota, as they unravel their feelings about their parents, their former partners, and their new loves. |
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Show #1,032 - week of April 28 Leif Enger - Leif Enger, whose novel Peace Like a River was a big bestseller, has followed it with So Brave, Young, and Handsome, an homage to the Wild West of 1915. |
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Show #1,031 - week of April 21 Susan Jacoby - Jacoby takes on both the right and the left in her new book The Age of American Unreason, an examination on the anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism of modern American culture. |
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Show #1,030 - week of April 14 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina - Novelist Valerie Martin turns the table on Book Show host , and interviews her for her new book Mr. and Mrs. Prince, the dramatic story of two remarkable former slaves in New England. |
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Show #1,029 - week of April 7 Meg Wolitzer - Wolitzer's new novel The Ten Year Nap looks at a group of mothers in New York who reassess their lives now that they are in their forties. |
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Show #1,028 - week of March 31 Lionel Shriver - Does she or doesn't she? Shriver's novel The Post-Birthday World is told in two parallel tracks, when a woman decides which man to spend her future with. |
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Show #1,027 - week of March 24 Mat Johnson - Mat Johnson, novelist, teamed up with artist Warren Pleece to produce Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery that takes place in 1920s Harlem and the American South. |
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Show #1,026 - week of March 17 Hari Kunzru - Hari Kunzru's new novel, My Revolutions, is the story of a British revolutionary who went underground after the 1960s and now has to come to terms with his life. |
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Show #1,025 - week of March 10 Rachel Fershleiser - The editors of the online publication Smith Magazine solicited six-word memoirs from the unknown and the famous, now collected in the book Not Quite What I Was Planning. |
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Show #1,024 - week of March 3 Marie Phillips - The gods from Olympus--Artemis, Apollo, Athena, Zeus, and the rest of their dysfunctional family--are now living in a squalid house in London, in Marie Phillips's hilarious new novel, Gods Behaving Badly. |
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Show #1,023 - week of February 25 Anne Enright - Irish novelist Enright won the Man Booker prize for her novel The Gathering, about the aftermath in a large family when one of the grown sons commits suicide. |
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Show #1,022 - week of February 18 Susan Choi - Choi's remarkable novel, A Person of Interest, follows an aging and reclusive math professor from Asia who is suspected of being a letter bomber. |
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Show #1,021 - week of February 11 Adam Langer - Langer's Ellington Boulevard is a music-filled riff on the Manhattan real estate boom. |
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Show #1,020 - week of February 4 Pat Barker - Prize-winning author Pat Barker is back with a new novel about the art world and World War I in collision with each other, in Life Class. |
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Show #1,019 - week of January 28 Khaled Hosseini - The film "The Kite Runner" is playing now to acclaim, so we're replaying this 2005 interview with the book's author, Khaled Hosseini. |
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Show #1,018 - week of January 21 Marcus Rediker - Historian Marcus Rediker's new book The Slave Ship: A Human History brings to life the devastating story of the lives of those--black and white--who crossed the Atlantic over four hundred years on the "floating dungeons." |
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