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Enamored of reading and writing, inspired by his grandmother's storytelling, and matured by eight years in prison for clandestine revolutionary activities against the Pinochet regime, Luis Sepulveda has become a writer with something to say-with an international following that wants to hear it. In this program, Sepulveda talks with veteran journalist Enzo Biagi about his childhood, his experiences in revolutionary Chile, and his decades of exile in...
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Jane McCafferty's Director of the World and Other Stories was selected by John Edgar Wideman as the winner of the twelfth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. Her collection was chosen from 279 manuscripts submitted by published writers to the contest and read anonymously by the screening judges and the final judge. The characters in Director of the World and Other Stories are often distanced, lonely, or displaced from others and the events...
3) Other worlds
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A conference of specialists on the occult is convened to analyze two 19th century ghost hauntings, one in Tennessee, the other in Connecticut. Attended by such experts as Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the conference attempts to arrive at an explanation. By the author of The Dancing Floor.
4) Other Worlds
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Many novels on America's list of 100 favorites take us to other worlds. From fantasy to science fiction, historical fiction to stories of spiritual realms, what do these books tell us about our own world? We examine how these novels help us think about real-life and present-day issues.
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A collection of stories featuring a wide variety of characters and locations-- London, Paris, Africa, provincial Holland, Puerto Rico, and beyond. Most of the people are transplanted or have tried to graft themselves onto a new culture, and they struggle against the odds to maintain their humor, to write, to fall in love or keep their marriages intact.
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"Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously."--Publisher...
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"Cerda's Señora Rodríguez and other worlds is a playful, parodic, and often sarcastic tale of a woman, her magical purse, and the other worlds that may or may not be closely linked to the protagonist. Novel or collection of short stories? Both English- and Spanish-language critics are uncertain. The translator gives no hints either"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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When Washington Post journalist Lonnae O'Neal Parker wrote her controversial article "White Girl?" she struck a nerve-and opened a dialogue-with readers on both coasts. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John Donvan explore what it means to be black in America, assisted by Ms. Parker, her biracial cousin Kim McClaren, and Peggy Sakagawa, Caucasian wife of an Asian-American man. Lonnae's message? Being black today is still...
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At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s,...
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