Books

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Children's Books

November 15, 2002

The New York Times children's book editor, a children's literature consultant to schools and libraries, and an award-winning children's book author/illustrator join Diane to discuss the latest trends in children's literature.

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Billy Collins: "Nine Horses" (Random House)

October 17, 2002

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins talks about his activities promoting poets and poetry around the country, and reads from his new collection.

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Readers' Review: George Eliot's "Middlemarch"

September 18, 2002

The September Readers' Review panel discusses one of Diane's favorites, George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece about the lives and loves of the residents of a small town.

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Michael Frayn "Spies" (Metropolitan) (Rebroadcast)

August 28, 2002

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn returns to the wartime London of his childhood in his novel "Spies" (Metropolitan), which tells the story of two schoolboys who become obsessed with the possibility that one of their mothers is...

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Best Sellers

August 21, 2002

Novelist and Florida International University literature professor James Hall talks about what qualities best-selling books have in common, why they're often looked down upon by the critics, and how you can write one.

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Jane Stanton Hitchcock: "Social Crimes" (Talk Miramax)

July 1, 2002

Novelist Jane Stanton Hitchcock presents her new riches-to-rags-to-revenge tale set among New York City's elite, in which a socialite at the pinnacle of New York society is suddenly "dethroned" after befriending a young widowed...

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Bryer, Barks & Lanahan: "Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda" (St. Martin's Press)

May 1, 2002

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's relationship was legendary for its passion and volatility. Diane speaks with the Fitzgeralds' granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and with Jackson Bryer and Cathy Barks, co-editors of a collection of the...

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Michael Frayn "Spies" (Metropolitan)

April 25, 2002

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn returns to the wartime London of his childhood in his novel "Spies" (Metropolitan), which tells the story of two schoolboys who become obsessed with the possibility that one of their mothers is...

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Maya Angelou: "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" (Random House)

April 10, 2002

Maya Angelou has chronicled her life as a poet, playwright, performer, and more in a series of memoirs. She joins Diane to present her latest, which focuses on the 1960s, when she became active in the civil rights movement and began...

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Margaret Atwood: "Negotiating with the Dead" (Cambridge)

April 9, 2002

Highly acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood joins Diane to talk about how, for whom, and why she writes, as explored in a new collection of her writings.

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