Showing posts with label Commercial Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commercial Fiction. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011

David Rakoff: Half Empty

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Half empty or half full? “Is the glass half empty or half full?” is a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particul...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro: 4th of July (Woman's Murder Club)

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Bestselling author James Patterson has recently honed his craft toward the social; that is to say, he's contributing to the production o...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Some Books Considered - Program 070 from TPR: Some Books Considered

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Novelist Kathy Reichs talks about how her series of books about forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan inspired the television show Bone...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Please Explain: Espionage from Please Explain from WNYC New York Public Radio Podcast

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Today's Please Explain looks at spying, the organizations that do it, and how it's carried out and why. We're joined by Thomas S...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Conroy talks about 'Reading Life' — and writing life Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow - ‎

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Actors as different as Jon Voight, Michael O'Keefe, David Keith and Nick Nolte have played writer Pat Conroy and his fictional surrogate...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Review of 'Great House,' a novel by Nicole Krauss - By Sharyn Vane SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN

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"Great House," Krauss' haunting new novel, investigates the dark side of that sweetness. Memories in "Great House" a...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Become Shelf Aware During Banned Books Week from Seattlest by Kim Jeffries

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Sorry, we were too immersed in re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (gotta prep for part one of the movie, natch!) to realize the...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Colbert Report - September 22, 2010 - Guillermo del Toro

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772 September 22 The More You No Guillermo del Toro "Hey FOX, I would make a great American Idol judge: American Idol should be cancele...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Charlie Rose's Monday, July 5, 2010 conversation with with Lev Grossman

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CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, June 30, 2010 with novelist Alan Furst

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CHARLIE ROSE: Alan Furst is here. His work as a spy novelist is often compared with masters of the genre like Graham Greene and John Le ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Charlie Rose's Monday, May 24, 2010 conversation with Eva Gedin and Sonny Mehta - a look at the life and work of author Stieg Larsson

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CHARLIE ROSE: During his lifetime, Stieg Larsson built a reputation in his native Sweden as a crusading journalist dedicated to denouncing...
Friday, September 18, 2009

NPR Books: September 17, 2009 from NPR: Books

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Stories in this episode: 1) Writer John Geiger chronicles phantom presences that lead to safety in his new book, 'The Third Man Factor: ...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Charlie Rose's Thursday, July 2, 2009 conversation with Guillermo del Toro - Movies, TV & Theater, Books - A conversation with director Guillermo del Toro about the book "The Strain"

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CHARLIE ROSE: Guillermo Del Toro is here. His films combine science fiction, fantasy and horror. Over the years, his work has attracted ...