A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps
receding to the east no matter how far you drive; and in a mine on another
planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. In these stories, Brian Evenson
unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—th...
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In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the
imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America, a Moroccan slave
whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the
conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúc...
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Yann Martel, author of the novel "Life of Pi," discusses his latest work,
"The High Mountains of Portugal," in which he examines the nature of faith.
In the interview he also discusses the film version of "Life of Pi" as well
as a strange correspondence he had with former C...
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From the series Bookwaves...
Umberto Eco (1932-2016), who died on Feb. 19, 2016, was a leading semiologist
and novelist, author of the best-selling Name of the Rose and other works. He
was interviewed in 2005 by host Richard Wolinsky.
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We speak with Diane Les Becquets about her new novel BREAKING WILD, which
was informed by the years she spent working and living in Colorado and by her
own experiences as an outdoorswoman and hunter. BREAKING WILD was chosen as
an Indie Next pick for February.
The novel f...
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"When she was twenty-one, Lacy M. Johnson was kidnapped, raped, and nearly
murdered by an ex-boyfriend. Johnson’s new memoir The Other Side is her
reconstruction of that time in her life—of the events leading up to and
away from that harrowing act of domestic violence. Yet ...
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From the series Bookwaves, we hear...
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto, author of "Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese
American Family Caught Between Two Worlds" discusses her true story of the
Fukuhara family, split between the U.S. and Japan before, during and shortly
after Wo...
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Host Lisa Loving speaks with writer Alafair Burke about her new suspense
novel, "The Ex," in which a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has
been framed for murder but begins to suspect that she is the one being
manipulated.
Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now...
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Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Thousand Acres" discusses
her latest work, a trilogy of novels which take an Iowan farming family over
the course of a hundred years: "Some Luck," "Early Warning" and "Golden Age,"
the most recent. She is interviewed by Richa...
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"It won't take long-a page, maybe two-before you feel wondrously disquieted
by Keith Lee Morris's Travelers Rest. The novel traps its characters in the
town of Good Night, Idaho, and the reader in its shaken snow globe of a
world. The language dazzles and the circumstances ...
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