Recorded in Santa on February 16th, 2005.
Louise Glück was appointed the 2003 Poet Laureate of the U.S. and received a Pulitzer Prize for her work in 1993. In this program, she reads three new unpublished poems as well as a selection of poems from previous volumes, before joining in conversation with fellow poet, James Longenbach.
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Length: 1:13:57; Size: 35.5 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on April 20th, 2005.
George Saunders, called by The Atlantic Monthly, "the most talented goof-off writing fiction today" has two books of short stories, Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline. He reads here from the stories, "My Guilty Pleasures" and "A Barber's Unhappiness", before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm.
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Length: 1:19:03; Size: 37.9 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on May 17th, 2006.
Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Stuart Dybek writes of characters so ethnic and working-class that they would have appealed to Nelson Algren and his poolroom pals. In his novels, short stories, and poetry, Dybek reflects the magic of ethnicity and the power which oral storytelling has to fashion new myths. After reading from his work, Dybek joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary talk show on radio, Bookworm.
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Length: 1:10:52; Size: 34.0 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on January 21st, 2004.
Eavan Boland has said, "I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience." Boland is a renowned Irish poet and director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford. In this event, she reads from a wide range of her work before sharing a conversation with fellow poet, Nicholas Jenkins.
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Length: 1:17:45; Size: 37.3 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on March 30th, 2005.
Campbell McGrath, the MacArthur Fellowship winning poet and devotee of the road trip, brings his quirky and inventive mind to voice his fascination with the high and low of American culture. In this program he reads a variety of poems from his six published books, before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt of Bookworm.
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Length: 1:23:29; Size: 40 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on May 10th, 2006.
T. Coraghessan Boyle is a prodigious fiction writer with ten potent novels and counting. Boyle is also a virtuoso short story writer, and always hip to the latest in social culture that he delights in skewering with his trademark wit. After reading from his work, T. Coraghessan Boyle joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary radio talk show, Bookworm.
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Length: 1:26:13; Size: 41.4 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on April 19th, 2006.
The poet C.D.Wright can be described as an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer whose work is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. After reading from her work, Ms. Wright joins in conversation with poet, essayist and literary critic, Stephen Burt.
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Length: 1:04:28; Size: 30.9 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on April 5th, 2006.
Peruvian born Mario Vargas Llosa is internationally recognized for his culturally and politically charged novels. He has said, "I think literature is impoverished if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life." After reading from his work, Vargas Llosa joins in conversation with Efraín Kristal, a professor of Spanish and comparative literature and a specialist in Varga Llosa's work.
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Length: 1:17:00; Size: 36.9 MB
Recorded in Santa Fe on January 18th, 2006.
These two nationally recognized poets, these two long-time friends, have collaborated on two books, the most recent being Braided Creek. In this program, they each read from the book without identifying whose work it is they are reading. In short, evocative and often very funny works, the two friends comment of the state of the world, their health, the weather, and all the while their joy in friendship comes to life.
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[Length: 1:13:53; Size: 35.5 MB]
Recorded in Santa Fe on April 26th, 2006.
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Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove have selected for this book, many voices of resistance - in poems, speeches, letters, and memoirs, - including such disparate Americans as Bob Dylan, Fannie Lou Hamer, César Chávez, Rachel Corrie, Helen Keller, and scores of others.
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Length: 1:32:08; Size: 46.3 MB
Cultural Freedom
