Archive for May, 2009
Marlon James: "You’re headless without history…"
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Marlon James. (50 minutes, 23 mb mp3)
Poets and writers come to the Calabash literary festival in Jamaica from every corner of the world, and still the overpowering voice in the fiction readings belongs to a native son from down the road in Kingston. Marlon James, …
Pico Iyer in Jamaica: center of word and world
Pico Iyer preaches a literary gospel of enrichment by the mixing-up and mongrelization of identities and language at the Calabash festival in Jamaica.
Aleksandar Hemon: through bi-focals, darkly
Bosnian-American novelist Aleksandar Hemon -- equally at home in Sarajevo and Chicago -- talks about his funny, dark stories of displacement.
Colm Toibin: the living spell of Henry James
Colm Toibin speaks of his new novel Brooklyn, as an ironic recasting of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, about a brave emigrant girl confronting her destiny.
George Scialabba: the untethered, untenured mind
Where did our general public thinkers go? George Scialabba is robust throwback: an unlicensed, untenured citizen intellectual.
Reif Larsen: the Making of the "Spivet" Legend
Reif Larsen, the million-dollar first novelist of "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet," recounts the "naturing and nurturing" that made him an artist and storyteller.
Paul Harding’s Magical ‘Tinkers’
Paul Harding, constructed his first novel Tinkers, about time and generations of fathers and son, with the skills of a clock-maker and a rock-drummer.
