Friday, June 29, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Our bonus streaming audio this week: Eleanor Wachtel's 1995 conversation with Harold Bloom about The Western Canon. During the summer, our weekly podcast and bonus streaming...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Our bonus streaming audio this week: Eleanor Wachtel's 2001 conversation with Oliver Sacks about his memoir, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. During...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Edmund de Waal, an English ceramicist whose ancestors were incredibly wealthy. By the end of WWII, pretty much all that was...
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Friday, June 15, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Scotland's Irvine Welsh is sometimes known as "the poet laureate of the chemical generation." His first novel, Trainspotting made him a controversial bestseller. Now, Irvine...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
A New York magazine profile labelled him: "Geek pop star!" In a delightfully wide-ranging conversation, Eleanor Wachtel and Malcolm Gladwell speak about Gladwell's Jamaican heritage,...
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Friday, June 8, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Booker prize-winning British novelist Barry Unsworth, has died in Italy aged 81. Listen to Eleanor Wachtel's January 1996 conversation with him about his novel, Morality...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Ray Bradbury died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. He's often described as the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction (a...
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Sunday, June 3, 2012 | Categories: Episodes |
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel. She has followed her blockbuster hit, Wolf Hall with more on Thomas Cromwell in the...
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