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  The WordSmitten Weekly Broadcast :: About the Books

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  Date / Time: 11/15/2009 9:00 PM UTC

  Category: Writing

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  Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Interested in novels, short stories, and non-fiction books? WordSmitten's host, Kate Sullivan, interviews notable authors, editors, literary agents, and publishing executives. These storytellers engage in lively and entertaining discussions about the people, the books, and the business of writing. Listen to authors describing the process, the travel adventures, the researc

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  WordSmitten :: Bestselling Author Francine Prose ::

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  Date / Time: 9/30/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  Category: Books

  
  

  Kate Sullivan interviews Francine Prose, the author of fifteen books of fiction, including "Blue Angel" -- a finalist for the National Book Award. Her newest book, "Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife," launches this week. Her novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. ========================= In "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife," Francine Prose, who is author of "Reading Like a Writer," explores the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank’s classic, "The Diary of a Young Girl." Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in Basel, run by the Frank family, this work of literary criticism unravels the complex, fascinating story of the diary and effectively makes the case for it being a work of art from a precociously gifted writer. ====================== WordSmitten. www.wordsmitten.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten

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  Original Air Date: 7/24/2008 8:00 AM UTC

  WordSmitten :: About the Books :: David Leavitt and Coffee Down Under

  David Leavitt, author of "The Indian Clerk" and "Family Dancing," talks about his secret pleasure and coffee down under on his recent trip to an Aussie writing conference. David Leavitt graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA in English. Author of the short story collections "Family Dancing," Leavitt was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
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  • Tags:
  • David Leavitt
  • The Indian Clerk
  • Pen/Faulkner Award
  • Australia
  • Subtropics literary
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• Original Air Date: 7/21/2008 12:00 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: About the Books :: Interview with Margo Hammond, Book Babe

  The WordSmitten "About the Books" Broadcast and LIve Interview. In this previous segment, Kate Sullivan talked with a former book editor of the St. Petersburg Times, Margo Hammond. A co-founder and host of the Book Babes, Hammond has a candid conversation about guiding her late mother's writing career and her mother's memoir. For an online interview, visit http://www.wordsmitten.com/margohammondbookbabe.htm and read about a book festival she initiated and her vow to not write a book.
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  • Tags:
  • Margo Hammond
  • National Book Critic
  • book editor
  • St. Petersburg Times
  • writers conference
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• Original Air Date: 7/6/2008 9:30 PM UTC

  Tampa's Mayor Creates Innovative Show to Support Authors and Booksellers

  With an innovative government program, Mayor Pam Iorio breaks new ground in her local program, "Mayor's Book Talk" shown on local TV and online. Few municipalities in the United States provide this kind of support for the publishing community. Kate Sullivan interviews the mayor of this emerging metropolis in Tampa Bay's growing community and asks, "Why Tampa, Why Pop Culture Books?"
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  • Tags:
  • Mayor Pam Iorio
  • Carl Hiaasen
  • Tim Dorsey
  • Booksellers
  • Inkwood Books
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• Date / Time: 7/6/2008 9:24 PM UTC

  Author David Leavitt on his trip to Australia, his encounter with politicians, and Down Under Coffee

  Part One (30 min): An interview with David Leavitt, author of "The Indian Clerk" and "Family Dancing." 

  
  

  David Leavitt graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA in English. He is the author of the short story collectionsFamily Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award), A Place I’ve Never Been,Arkansas, and The Marble Quilt, as well as the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps(Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing, and The Body of Jonah Boyd. In 2002, he published Florence, A Delicate Case as part of Bloomsbury’s series “The Writer and the City.” His Collected Stories was published in 2003 by Bloomsbury. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Origins of the Computerappeared in 2005 and the novel The Indian Clerk appeared in 2007. Professor Leavitt is also the editor of Subtropics, a new literary magazine edited in the Department of English.

  
  

  With Mark Mitchell, Professor Leavitt is co-author of Italian Pleasures and In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany, and co-editor of the anthologies The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories and Pages Passed from Hand to Hand. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s, Esquire, Vogue, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, The Southwest Review, Tin House,Food & Wine and Travel and Leisure. He has also taught at Princeton University.
  • Tags:
  • David Leavitt
  • Australia
  • "The Indian Clerk"
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• Original Air Date: 7/6/2008 8:00 PM UTC

  The WordSmitten Weekly Broadcast :: About the Books

  WordSmitten "About the Books" summer segments. In this segment, Manhattan literary agent Jeff Kleinman discusses some of his clients' newest books, including "The Art of Racing in the Rain," due out in May 2008, and Quinn Cummings' manuscript titled, "I WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP." Visit FolioLit.com and for Quinn Cummings, the QC Report at http://qcreport.blogspot.com for more information on this debut author who is the actress who played Marsha Mason's daughter in Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl."
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  • Tags:
  • Steve McKee
  • Quinn Cummings
  • My Father's Heart
  • Disney Hyperion
  • Folio Literary Manag
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