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Longform Podcast - Joshua Topolsky
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Writing Fiction vs Non-Fiction — When you read a piece of nonfiction, you naturally expect that you’re reading the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Right? So how would you feel if you found out that theauthor of an essay you’re reading was taking certain liberties with the facts to make the piece more captivating?
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AllanGregg interviews Gwynne Dyer - Climate Wars
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Simon Schama | Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill and My Mother
"[Simon] Schama is a genius of storytelling," writes The Times of London. The author of many books, including The Embarrassment of Riches and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings, Schama is a Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. A cultural essayist for The New Yorker, he has written and presented more than 30 documentaries for the BBC and PBS, including A History of Britain, The Power of Art, and The American Future: A History. Scribble, Scribble, Scribble is a witty collection of essays on a wide range of topics. (recorded 4/25/2011)
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Festival Book Club - Patrick Gale and Salley Vickers - ABC Perth - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Patrick Gale and Salley Vickers talk about turning heartache into an opportunity for writing good fiction at the 2010 Perth Writers Festival.
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Moulding Character with Marina Endicott and Andrea Goldsmith - ABC Perth - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
How can you create grood characters in your novels? Authors Marina Endicott and Andrea Goldsmith explain how they go about developing characters
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Digging up the Past - ABC Perth - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Judith Lanigan and Linda Jaivin describe how they turned history research into thrilling fiction in their respective novels.
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NPR On Point: The Best Books of 2009
It’s the gift season. And the gift of a book is not just of a satisfying heft in a nice wrapping. It’s the hope and encouragement to slow down, get lost, step back and see another way. So, what to give? Or hope for? We’re looking at the best books of 2009 today, and the range is wide. From lost cities to an illustrated Old Testament. From "Love in Infant Monkeys," to "Wolf Hall" and "Little Bee." Michael Sandel makes my guests cut. So do Lorrie Moore, Jonathan Lethem, A.S. Byatt, Tania James. What about yours? This hour, On Point: for the holidays, the best books of ‘09.
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BBC Discussion between Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler
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