Book Digest: August 7, 2006
Mexico; Feeding the Monster; The Iliad; 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World; The Somme; The Republic of Poetry; The Obstacles; High Definition; The Night Gardener; A Strong West Wind
Robert Birnbaum
Susan Straight
The great American novel doesn't exist--except in the minds of marketers (and those who believe New Yorkers write the best books). A conversation with Susan Straight about regional writing, as American as apple pie.
Book Digest: July 17, 2006
Triangle; Turing’s Delirium; America’s Report Card; Breach of Faith; The Storm; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Dylan Interviews; Book of Longing; The Places Between; A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Book Digest: July 10, 2006
Radical Innocent; How This Night Is Different; Blow the House Down; Tales From the Cuban Empire; The Attack; Black Maestro; The World of Yesterday; The Slow Moon; Sound and Fury; Fear
Gay Talese
A rowdy conversation about Talese's new memoir, Lorena Bobbitt's Hollywood agent, attending fights with James Baldwin, and a hundred other reports about the joys and pains of getting a story right.
Book Digest: June 26, 2006
High Lonesome; Mexican Days; The End of California; Kensington Gardens; Blowin’ Hot and Cool; 54; Gallatin Canyon; Friendship; Double Lives; Booked; Kings in Disguise
Book Digest: June 19, 2006
The Unsettling; The Great Match Race; Going Sane; Darkness & Light; The Suitors; Endgame, Volume II; Don’t I Know You?; Burning Rainbow Farm; Nürnberg; The Economics of Attention; A Strong West Wind; The Week You Weren’t Here
Book Digest: June 12, 2006
The Nasty Bits; Uncommon Carriers; Now You See It; Moonlight Hotel; Great Ideas; Revolutionary Characters; There Will Never Be Another You; Learning to Kill; Cellophane; A Woman of Uncertain Character; A Farewell to Arms
Lawrence Weschler
Writer and off-the-charts associater Lawrence Weschler talks about his new book, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, plus publishing as an act of citizenship and the joy of sideways learning.
Book Digest: June 5, 2006
Fun Home; Birds in Fall; What I Did Wrong; Simon Bolivar; Proust at the Majestic; The Persistent Gappers of Frip; Lost Thoughts of Soldiers; Adios Muchachos; Cuba and the Tempest; A Strange Commonplace; Everyman