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A friend of author Richard Russo’s wife gave his novel “Empire Falls” to Ivanka Trump. Her response: “This is a book about poor people. Why would I want to read a book about poor people?” Russo tells us about his father, Martha’s Vineyard and green pens.

Lifelong friends Lynn Nottage and Jonathan Lethem grew up on the same block. Lethem’s latest book is “Brooklyn Crime Novel;” and last season Nottage was the most-produced playwright in America.

It is opening day for the sport of baseball and baseball is the New York game. According to our guest, he says so because this is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the homerun was hit. It is where the game’s first stars were born. Kevin Baker the historian and novelist writes about this in his new book “The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City.”

Like Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett, novelist Hernan Diaz (“In the Distance,” “Trust”) writes in a language other than the one he spoke as a child, and it helps him see the world afresh: “If you move out of one language and into another, it is like moving out of one country and into another.” A repeat broadcast from January 6, 2023.

Philip Roth has died at the age of 85. The Pulitzer, National Book Award, and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist first had success in 1959…

Carl Hiaasen is one of America's finest satirical novelists. His newspaper column is another side of the same talent, examining with a corrosive writer's…

Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century.In Voyager, Russell Banks, a lifelong explorer, shares…

Novelist Roland Merullo has written the novels Breakfast with Buddha and Lunch with Buddha. So, it makes perfect sense that is latest is entitled, Dinner…

Cuban-American novelist, Oscar Hijuelos died this weekend at the age of 62. His book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love was a best seller and earned him…