Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column

1158: Three Books With Alan Cheuse 13.10.2011 ↓

'IQ84' by Haruki Murakami, 'Assumption' by Percival Everett, 'Zone One' by Colson Whitehead

1157: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 13, Erin Morgenstern 12.10.2011 ↓

The Night Circus

1156: A 2011 Interview With Lisa Randall 10.10.2011 ↓

"I gave it to religious people, I gave it to non-religious people and both were unhappy with what I wrote."

1155: A 2011 Interview With Ruth Rendell 06.10.2011 ↓

"Oh, I could kill him."

1154: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 12, Neal Stephenson 05.10.2011 ↓

REAMDE

1153: A 2011 Interview with Erin Morgenstern 03.10.2011 ↓

"I'm always kind of a fantastical writer."

1152: A 2011 Phone Interview with Russell Banks 01.10.2011 ↓

"I don’t find plotting all that hard once I have the characters in place."

1151: Three Books with Alan Cheuse 30.09.2011 ↓

Joan Slonczewski 'The Highest Frontier' ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 'Apricot Jam' ; Denis Johnson, 'Train Dreams

1150: A 2011 Interview with Meg Wolitzer 29.09.2011 ↓

"I really think you need to respect the antsyness of kids."

1149: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 11, Lev Grossman 28.09.2011 ↓

The Magician King

1147: A 2011 Interview with Neal Stephenson 26.09.2011 ↓

"Here you're asking me to engage into more self-examination than is my wont..."

1148: Neal Stephenson Live Reading and Q and A 26.09.2011 ↓

Live at the Swedish American Music Hall Courtesy Booksmith

1146: Tad Williams and Deborah Beale at SF in SF on August 13, 2011 22.09.2011 ↓

"...and you will notice that Antony has never stayed with any of the publishing companies he's founded..."

1145: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 10: George Pelecanos 21.09.2011 ↓

'The Cut'

1144: A 2011 Interview with Lev Grossman 19.09.2011 ↓

"I'm gonna write it ... and if Viking doesn't publish it, everyone can just come over to my house and look at it on my laptop."

1142: Tad Williams Reading at SF in SF on August 13, 2011 16.09.2011 ↓

"...Caliban, has folndhis way to Naples..."

1143: Tad Williams Interview at SF in SF on August 13, 2011 16.09.2011 ↓

"The Lord of the Rings, so far as I was concerned, took place in the Sierras."

1140: Deborah Beale Interviewed at SF in SF, August 13, 2011 15.09.2011 ↓

"...it struck me that I had to go to America ..."

1141: Deborah Beale Reads from 'The Dragons of Ordinary Farm' at SF in SF, August 13, 2011 15.09.2011 ↓

This is what she had been waiting for for months.

1139: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 9: Laurie R. King 14.09.2011 ↓

'Pirate King'

1138: A 2011 Interview with George Pelecanos 12.09.2011 ↓

"...maybe somebody's trying to tell me to write a book about this guy Spero."

Rudy Rucker and Kim Stanley Robinson in The Agony Column Live at Capitola Book Cafe, June 4, 2011 09.09.2011 ↓

"All of those were written on the typewriter."

1136: A 2011 Interview with Ben Loory 08.09.2011 ↓

"..there's so much of it that really is ... that comes from the unconscious and I really don't have any control over."

1135: Podcast Update: Time to Read, Episode 8: Midwestern Noir 07.09.2011 ↓

Michael Harvey and David Levien

1134: A 2011 Interview with Laurie R. King 05.09.2011 ↓

"...preferably throw in a few distractions as well..."