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From the Archives: Joan Didion: A 2011 conversation with the late Joan Didion, whose essays, novels, screenplays, and memoirs both chronicled and shaped American culture with a sharp and distinctively Californian sensibility.

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The Enduring Appeal of Judy Blume and Gabriel García Márquez: Elisabeth Egan discusses “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” and Miguel Salazar tells readers where to start with Gabo’s extensive catalog.

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Episode 483: P.J. Vernon, Author of Bath Haus (With Special Guest Host Kelly J. Ford): Author P.J. Vernon joins Daniel Ford and special guest co-host Kelly J. Ford () on the show to chat about his book . To learn more about P.J. Vernon, visit his and follow him on and . Today’s episode is sponsored by the podcast and .

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Hanif Kureishi in conversation with John Sutherland - Something To Tell You: Hanif Kureishi’s Something to Tell You is a cogitation on psychoanalysis as well as a murder story. John Sutherland, here in conversation with Kureishi, finds it unutterably moving, but with such comic vicissitudes that jokes leap out of the page to...

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Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”: Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. 

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101: What We Read in July: Show notes: Listener-favorite episode alert! It’s our monthly recap and we’re sharing with you the books we read in July. We’re glad to report that we had an extremely good reading month with lots of 5 star books. We hope you had a good reading...

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The Midnight Reading: Two (True) Ghost Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: Two startling pieces of supernatural non-fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Ghost of The Moat" & "A London Ghost." The Midnight Reading is a special summer series of dramatic readings of lost classics from the world of macabre fiction that have...

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My Life In Middlemarch: Rebecca Mead LIVE from the NYPL: A passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. For Rebecca Mead, that book was George Eliot's Middlemarch, which she first read as a young woman in an English coastal town, and reread reg

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Introducing...Shakespeare Anyone?: In today's episode, we are going to be discussing the female characters of Hamlet: Ophelia and Gertrude. We will be tackling some of the more difficult parts of the play for modern readers and theater-makers: the misogyny and seeming lack of female agency.