Book Review: 'Skinner'
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Charlie Huston is a Los Angeles-based writer known for his...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish'
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: The writer and humorist David Rakoff died last year at the age of 47 of cancer. He left behind his final work: a brief novel in verse with the long title "Love,...
View ArticleA Coming Of Age Story For The (Ice) Ages
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. A new novel explores life on Earth tens of thousands of years...
View ArticleWritten In Secret Behind The Iron Curtain, 'Corpse' Is Revived
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The fiction work of Soviet era writer Zigizmund Krzhizhanovsky never saw the light of day in his own time. He was known mostly as a theater, music and literally critic,...
View ArticleMcMurtry Takes Aim At A Legend In 'Last Kind Words Saloon'
In a prefatory note to The Last Kind Words Saloon, his first novel in five years, Western writer supreme Larry McMurtry states that he wants to create a "ballad in prose." And he borrows a line from...
View Article'Warburg' Struggles For Love And Justice In Wartime Rome
James Carroll, who served as a Catholic priest before his literary ambitions led him to go secular, has gathered together his knowledge of church history and his mature powers as a novelist to create...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Angels Make Their Hope Here'
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDRED. I'm Audie Cornish.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Now to 19th-century New Jersey and a new novel. It set among...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Lovely, Dark, Deep'
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Joyce Carol Oates is a famously prolific writer and sure enough she has a new book out.
View ArticleMartin Amis''Zone Of Interest' Is An Electrically Powerful Holocaust Novel
When I picked up Martin Amis' new novel, The Zone of Interest, it felt as though I had touched a third rail, so powerful and electric is the experience of reading it.
View Article'Lila' Sets The Stage For Marilynn Robinson's Earlier Works
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