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Monday, September 30, 2013 | Categories: Episode Update |

Edwidge Danticat: Photo credit, Jonathan Demme

Edwidge Danticat: Photo credit, Jonathan Demme

Our fall season features presentations of the best work from both new and familiar voices.  You'll find a wide range of stories, ideas, and perspectives from our remarkable guests.

 

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Rupert Thomson Interview

Sunday, September 29, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Rupert Thomson Interview
English novelist Rupert Thomson is one of those writers who, for some reason, is not as well known as he should be.  So, we're doing our bit to remedy the situation.  Eleanor speaks with him about his memoir, and about his new novel, Secrecy.

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Malcolm Gladwell event

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Malcolm Gladwell event
For our listeners in the Montreal area, Eleanor will be speaking with Malcolm Gladwell onstage at McGill University on November 14th.  Here's the information.

Aminatta Forna Interview

Sunday, September 22, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Aminatta Forna Interview
Aminatta Forna has first-hand knowledge of civil war.  Her father was hanged in 1975 by the regime in Sierra Leone, on false charges of treason.  Forna writes about civil war in her latest book - this time about Yugoslavia.

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Roddy Doyle Interview

Sunday, September 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Roddy Doyle Interview
Irish writer Roddy Doyle clearly loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way.  Doyle's new novel The Guts brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the Barrytown Trilogy.  There's life in the old boy yet.

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Richard Sennett Interview

Sunday, September 8, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Richard Sennett Interview
Richard Sennett is a social analyst and writer, with his work falling under the heading 'culture studies'.  But this isn't dry stuff - his work is "an elegant mix of interview, anecdote and wide, deep book-research."

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Nick Hornby Encore

Sunday, September 1, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Nick Hornby Encore
During the summer, the weekly podcast and streaming audio has featured some of the best shows from our archives.  This week, from 2006, the popular English novelist and essayist, Nick Hornby.

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Seamus Heaney Interview

Sunday, September 1, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Seamus Heaney Interview
As a tribute to Ireland's Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30th, we aired our conversation from 2010 with the Nobel prize-winning poet on Sunday September 1st.

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Hilary Mantel Encore

Sunday, September 1, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Hilary Mantel Encore

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two-time Man Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel. Our Seamus Heaney obituary tribute pre-empted this show on air, but you can listen to it here in streaming audio.

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Robertson Davies Interview

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Robertson Davies Interview
Robertson Davies, the Canadian novelist, critic, playwright and journalist, would have been 100 years old today (born 28 August 1913).  Eleanor spoke with him in September of 1991.  Here is that interview.

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Ruth Reichl Encore

Sunday, August 25, 2013 | Categories: Episodes | |

Ruth Reichl Encore
During the summer, the weekly podcast and streaming audio will feature some of the best shows from our archives.  This week, from 2006, the candid queen of food writing, Ruth Reichl. 

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