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  The WordSmitten Weekly Broadcast :: About the Books

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  Date / Time: 11/22/2009 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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  Date / Time: 8/30/2009 5:48 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley

   Kate Sullivan interviews Jane Smiley, awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for "A Thousand Acres," is the author of ten works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and Moo. Her essays appeared in Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, and The Nation. She is also the author, from Crown, of a book on craftspeople living in the Catskills. Her novel "Horse Heaven" was published in April 2000. She is at work on a novel about sex set in Hollywood. She lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and her sixteen (and counting) horses. Born in Los Angeles, California, Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After getting her BA at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sight-seeing, then returned to Iowa for graduate school at the University of Iowa. 
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• Original Air Date: 8/16/2009 6:00 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Live from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

  Kate Sullivan interviews Michael Collier, live from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. Michael Collier, director of the conference, is the author of five books of poems: The Clasp and Other Poems; The Folded Heart; The Neighbor; The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and most recently, Dark Wild Realm. He is also co-editor, along with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, of A William Maxwell Portrait. His translation of Euripides’s Medea appeared in 2006 and a collection of essays, Make Us Wave Back, in 2007. ============================ Bread Loaf is the oldest writers' conference in America. Since 1926, a generation before "creative writing" became a course of study in educational settings, the writing conference began to convene in mid-August at the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College. Set in the Green Mountain National Forest in Ripton, Vermont, the land was acquired in the nineteenth century by Joseph Battell, breeder of Morgan horses, proprietor of the local newspaper, and spirited lover of nature. ================================= 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. ========================= Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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  • author poet Michael Collier
  • National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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• Original Air Date: 8/9/2009 8:00 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Author Jo Maeder & K-ROCK DJ

  Kate Sullivan interviews former New York City DJ Jo Maeder to discuss her debut memoir, "When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters -- and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo" -- (Da Capo, 292 pages, $25) =========== The author, a former New York City disc jockey, left her fast-paced city life and headed south to care for her ailing, estranged mother. Maeder's memoir recounts the challenging transition and the following years spent pulling together her fractured family in a town she called Green-Something, North Carolina. Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. 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. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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  • New York K-Rock Howard Stern
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• Original Air Date: 8/2/2009 8:00 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Author Jonathan Tropper ::

  Kate Sullivan interviews Jonathan Tropper, author of "THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU." Recent reviews: "A snappy and heartfelt family drama... The family's interactions are sharp, raw, and often laugh-out-loud funny... Tropper strikes an excellent balance between the family history and its present-day fallout, proving his ability to create touchingly human characters and a deliciously pageturning story." —Publishers Weekly ======================================= "...hilarious, testosterone driven thrill ride... Highly recommended for Tropper fans, who will rejoice at the opportunity to indulge; others will wonder where he's been all their lives." —Library Journal (Starred Review) ======================================= "Tropper has covered this man-child territory before, but few can rival his poignant depictions of damaged men befuddled by the women they love." —Kirkus Reviews ======================================= Tune in Sunday afternoons at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Author Jonathan Tropper appears live on WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast on Sunday, August 2, at 4 PM. ======================================= Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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