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Lionel Shriver: "Big Brother"

Lionel Shriver: "Big Brother"

June 12, 2013

The subject of food can be a minefield in today’s society. Novelist Lionel Shriver on the strain an obese brother puts on his family.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-06-03/ru-freeman-sal-mal-lane
Ru Freeman: "On Sal Mal Lane"

Ru Freeman: "On Sal Mal Lane"

June 3, 2013

A journalist uses her experiences growing up during Sri Lanka's civil war to inform her latest novel. Ru Freeman describes how growing religious and ethnic tensions affected children from diverse backgrounds living on an ordinary lane in Colombo in the years preceding the war.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-29/readers-review-art-fielding-chad-harbach
Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

May 29, 2013

A novel about love, friendship, the pursuit of perfection – and baseball. For this month's Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-23/khaled-hosseini-and-mountains-echoed
Khaled Hosseini: "And The Mountains Echoed"

Khaled Hosseini: "And The Mountains Echoed"

May 23, 2013

The author of the international best-seller “The Kite Runner” sets his latest novel in Afghanistan, San Francisco and Paris. How a wrenching family decision echoes across generations and time zones.

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Readers' Review

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-29/readers-review-art-fielding-chad-harbach
Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach

May 29, 2013

A novel about love, friendship, the pursuit of perfection – and baseball. For this month's Readers' Review: "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-04-24/readers-review-ts-eliots-four-quartets
Readers' Review: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

Readers' Review: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

April 24, 2013

For this month's Readers' Review: what T.S. Eliot considered his greatest work, "Four Quartets." The poems are a meditation on time, eternity and immortality.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-03-27/readers-review-lonely-girl-edna-obrien
Readers' Review: "The Lonely Girl" By Edna O'Brien

Readers' Review: "The Lonely Girl" By Edna O'Brien

March 27, 2013

For this month's Readers’ Review: Edna O’Brien’s “Country Girls” trilogy was banned –- and burned -- when it was first published in the 1960s. The series’ second novel traces the sexual awakening of two Irish girls of that era.

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