Book Digest: May 29, 2006
The Power of the Dog; Glimmer Train; The Din in the Head; The First Hurt; A Spy’s Fate; Let Me Finish; The Tango Singer; White Guys; The Theater of Night; Marc Chagall; Drowning in Gruel
Robert Birnbaum
Book Digest: May 22, 2006
Wrigleyworld; Playing President; Send in the Idiots; Brutal; Voices of Time; The Foreign Correspondent; Camus at “Combat”; The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel; The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo; Best of Tin House
Book Digest: May 15, 2006
A Bee Stung, So I Killed All the Fish; June 1941; Becoming Abigail; The Way We Eat; To Die in Cuba; The Secret Way to War; Icelander; Brassai; Kingdom Coming; District and Circle
David Mitchell
Author and 2005 Rooster winner David Mitchell talks about his new novel, Black Swan Green, the appeal of Bill Evans, and the differences between sex and writing.
Book Digest: May 2, 2006
The Promise of Happiness; The Man Who Invented Fidel; Remembering War; The O Henry Prize Stories; Broken Screen; Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative; Standing Eight; Mohr; Written Lives; The View From the Dugout; Waiting for Gautreaux
Book Digest: April 20, 2006
The Dead Fish Museum; L’America; Ettore Sottsass; Saving Daylight; The Tunnel; Toys; Ploughshares; Cape Cod Cottage; Chasing Spring; How to Cure a Fanatic; The Disposable American
Richard Reeves
The fascinating author and journalist Richard Reeves talks about writing Reagan, founding New York magazine, and covering Lévy's America more than 20 years ago.
Book Digest: April 11, 2006
Green Squall; Crashing the Gate; Realm of the Dead; On Seeing; The Last Friend; Little Money Street; The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space; La Perdida; Target Zero; The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy; Among the Dead Cities
Book Digest: March 30, 2006
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001; 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die; The Brothers Bulger; Night of the Jaguar; The Ministry of Pain; Just War; Americans in Paris; Kabul in Winter; Duchess of Nothing; White Apples and the Taste of Stone
Alberto Manguel
Should "America" only include the United States? Does art criticism matter when it doesn't account for emotions? A conversation with author Alberto Manguel about working with Borges and responding to paintings.