The literary sensation Haruki Murakami comes out with his new novel "1Q84" today. The surrealist plot has Aomame, a young woman, exploring the alternative-world Tokyo of 1984.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2011/10/25/21125/1q84-delves-into-parallel-worlds/
20 min discussion of 3 books including ‘1q84’ (1984). All mainstream/genre mashups.
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/09/05/110905on_audio_murakami?currentPage=all