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  1. Book Talk: Kate Summerscale / Nick Harkaway / Natasha Soobramanien interviews

    This special edition of Book Talk features three interviews recorded on location at Edinburgh International Book Festival last month.

    Kate Summerscale, author of the phenomenally successful The Suspicions of Mr Whicher discusses the results of her success and her new book, another fascinating piece of historical non-fiction, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace.

    Angelmaker author Nick Harkaway talks about how being the son of John Le Carre meant being raised in ‘a house full of stories’, as well as going into detail about his own fiction writing.

    Lastly, debut novelist Natasha Soobramanien explains her fascination with islands and describes how years of life experience shaped her novel Genie and Paul.

    http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/podcasts/audio/book-talk-kate-summerscale-nick-harkaway-natasha-soobramanien-interviews

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  2. Richard Ford reads ‘The Student’s Wife’ by Raymond Carver

    "The Student’s Wife" is from Raymond Carver’s first story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, published in America in 1976. You could say it’s from Ray’s "early period" – written possibly as early as the late 60s, when he was one side or the other of 30 years old. Its verbal resources are spare, direct, rarely polysyllabic, restrained, intense, never melodramatic, and real-sounding while being obviously literary in intent. (You always know, pleasurably, that you’re reading a made short story.) These affecting qualities led some dunderheads to call his stories "minimalist", which they are most assuredly not, inasmuch as they’re full-to-the-brim with the stuff of human intimacy, of longing, of barely unearthable humour, of exquisite nuance, of pathos, of unlooked-for dread, and often of love – expressed in words and gestures not frequently associated with love. More than they are minimal, they are replete with the renewings and the fresh awarenesses we go to great literature to find. When they were first published in Britain by Collins Harvill, they made a great sensation that quickly spread all over the world, and made Ray (who was lovable, anyway) adored as the great story writer of his generation. Which he was. And is.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/dec/23/richard-ford-raymond-carver-wife

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  3. The Strand - A World of Arts

    The Strand Weekend Highlights: Dec. 12, 2012 — Beck; Ed Harcourt; Tinawaren; Richard Russo; Louis de Bernieres; Hitchcock; Science in Fiction; Rachael Young;

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  4. The Strand - A World of Arts

    The Strand Weekend Highlights: Dec. 8, 2012 — Hobbit premiere Goalkeeping Heleno Little Richard 80 EL James Death Exhibition Material comedy Amos Oz

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  5. Has the High School English Curriculum become less rigorous?

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  6. The Strand - A World of Arts

    Africa For Norway, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, And They Call It Summer,Brian Eno, Cecilia Bartoli, Indian Music Archivists, Book Prize Round-up

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  7. A Good Man is Hard To Find

    Flannery O’Connor reads "A Good Man is Hard To Find" at Vanderbilt U in 1959

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  8. The Strand - A World of Arts

    The Weekend Strand highlights: Nov. 10, 2012 — Highlights of the week’s arts including Orhan Pamuk; Edward Seaga; Seckou Keita.

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  9. NPR: Fresh Air

    ‘Sutton’: America’s 1920s, Bank-Robbing ‘Robin Hood’ — After the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer was so angry at banks, he says, he decided to write about the people who rob them — in the form of fiction, since he’s not an economist.

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  10. Stuff You Missed in History Class

    The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie — In December of 1926, Agatha Christie left her home and vanished: Police found her car crashed and abandoned. An 11-day manhunt commenced and speculation ran rampant — but when she was finally found – alive – there were more questions than answers.

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