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Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Joel Nelson talks about how he grew to love poetry and how he writes and recites poetry, as well as growing up on a ranch and his love of horses, a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: For his album “Floating World, Volume One,” musician Aaron Novik composed songs based on writings of Adobe Books patrons
A lot of people these days hold down multiple jobs just to make ends meet. San Francisco resident Aaron Novik is a musician, a composer, an illustr...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:55
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Grant Jerkins is a writer and bookseller in Georgia.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:40

  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 16:26
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A native of North Texas, Deborah Crombie is busy writing her fourteenth Kincaid/James novel.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 29:50
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Lou Berney is an accomplished writer, teacher, and liar. He has written feature screenplays and created TV pilots for, among others, Warner Brother...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2010
  • Length: 26:33
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Charles Ardai is a writer, publisher, and entrepreneur.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:32
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Victor Gischler is a writer living in Baton Rouge.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 30:15
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A novelist and widely published journalist, Todd Goldberg is also Administrative Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for th...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2009
  • Length: 30:34
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Norman Green has been, at various times, a truck driver, a construction worker, a project engineer, a factory rep, and a plant engineer, but never,...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
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Bill Fitzhugh writes satiric crime novels, the occasional comic mystery, and a weekly show for the Deep Tracks channel of XM Satellite Radio.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:59
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Author Marilyn Johnson hs written the obituaries for Katharine Hepburn, Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Marlon Brando fo...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:52
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Often called a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter Thompson, Texas-born James Crumley is the author of twelve novels. He died in 2008.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 31:29
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Michael Ledwidge is the author of "The Narrowback" and "Bad Connection." He has also written five novels in collaboration with James Patterson.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 30:41
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Bob Truluck is a building contractor and novelist living in Florida.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 30:17
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J Milligan is the author of "The Wisdom of Big Bird" and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 30:04
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Sean Doolitte is the author of "Dirt" and is busy on his next novel.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 31:43
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Ben Rehder is a novelist living in Texas.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 30:26
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Tim Dorsey is a novelist and former newspaperman living in Florida.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2009
  • Length: 28:47
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Scott Phillips is the author of several novels, including "The Ice Harvest."

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
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Novelist George Pelecanos is also a contributor to the awarding winning HBO series "The Wire."

  • Added: Sep 12, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
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Jenny Siler is a writer living in Maine.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:01:02