Podcasts: Results for Tag: “literature“

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Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life

Recorded Mar 31, 2016

A National Book Award finalist and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life is a tragic and transcendent psalm to brotherly love and an unsettling meditation on sexual abuse, suffering, and the difficulties of… more
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Donna Leon | The Waters of Eternal Youth

Recorded Mar 28, 2016

The internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery novels of “brilliant writer” ( New York Times Book Review ) Donna Leon contain “crime writing of the highest order: powerful, relevant and all too full of human failings” ( The… more
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Helen Macdonald | H is for Hawk and Shaler’s Fish

Recorded Mar 22, 2016

Naturalist Helen Macdonald won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for the bestselling H Is for Hawk , a “beautiful and nearly feral” ( New York Times ) chronicle of the devastating but transformative year she spent training a goshawk… more
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Howard Jacobson | Shylock Is My Name with Boris Fishman | Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

Recorded Mar 15, 2016

“Thrilling and enigmatic” ( New York Times Book Review ), Howard Jacobso n is the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Question , an unflinching story of friendship and loss. An acerbically funny critic, columnist for The… more
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Helen Oyeyemi | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours with Álvaro Enrigue | Sudden Death

Recorded Mar 10, 2016

Skilled at turning “the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange” ( The Boston Globe ), Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five virtuosic novels that explore the spaces inside and beyond fairy tales and myths: her first novel, The Icarus Girl ,… more
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Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming

• Recorded Apr 29, 2015

The author of more than two dozen books for young adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her… more
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Bruce Cumings | The Korean War with Chang-rae Lee | The Surrendered

• Recorded Mar 29, 2011

The year 2010 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Called a "sobering corrective" by a reviewer for the New York Times , Bruce Cumings's book takes a fresh look at the often unjustly ignored conflict. Characterizing… more