Featured Author Conversation 2008
November 30, 2008
- Ishmael Reed Interviewed live by Judy Joy Jones Show Ishmael Reed is one of the best known African-American writers of his generation as well as the most controversial! He is the author of six books of poetry, opera libretto, six plays, four books of essays and nine novels! Ishmael is also the editor of numerous anthologies and magazines. Mr. Reed is a MacArthur fellow & California ...
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September 30, 2008
- Hi folks!Mindy Klasky has a new book out. I have to say--I really like these books. This is the third in her Jane Madison series. I am seriously looking forward to getting to read it (just as soon as I have a moment to breathe from revisions, but it dangles like a chocolate carrot before me . . . ). Anyhow, these books are just plain fun. You have a librarian, witches, a fun 'cat,' which means I ...
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September 24, 2008
- Last Saturday at our meeting of PEN WEST at my house in Berkeley, we had the pleasure of listening to the two halves of a brilliant literary couple, interview each other about their new books. Irvin went first. Irvin Yalom: Looking at your other books and the subjects you've covered—A History of the Breast and A History of the Wife among them—how did it come about that you wrote about ...
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April 30, 2008
- 2 For Me and Me for 2: An Interview with two M.ChristiansTape BeginsM.Christian 1: So I’ve finally apprehended you, foul fiend!M.Christian 2: What the hell are you talking about? I caught you!MC1: There’s no denying it: you’re the wretched scoundrel who’s been impersonating me, writing books under my name, soiling my creative reputation, attempting to profit by ...
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March 20, 2008
- Some time ago, Kay Callison interviewed me about Lost Son for a podcast. The finished podcast was a neatly edited version of a much longer conversation. Here follows the full discussion. You’ve put out quite an impressive a body of work for your age, young man! Two large novels -- The Green Age of Asher Witherow and now Lost Son. Thanks (chuckles). Both of your novels have been written from ...
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March 3, 2008
- ALMA ALEXANDER is a novelist whose work has appeared in thirteen languages and more than 20 countries worldwide. Her international bestseller The Secrets of Jin Shei is perhaps the best known of her adult books, but in 2007 she branched out into the world of YA literature with the release of the first book in the Worldweavers trilogy, Gift of the Unmage, which has garnered a great deal of reader ...
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