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Reading Digitally, and the Friends of the Jefferson Public Library Book Sale

By Susan Larson

This week on The Reading Life: An excerpt from “Reading in the Digital Age," a panel with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham and critics Maureen Corrigan of Fresh Air and Dwight Garner of the New York Times, recorded at the 2013 Tennessee Williams Festival.

We'll also talk with Peg Phelps of the Friends of the Jefferson Public Library book sale.

3:47 pm

Fri April 5, 2013

In 'Life After Life,' Caught In The Dangerous Machinery of History

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By Meg Wolitzer

Originally published on Tue April 2, 2013 8:56 pm

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Flannery O'Connor said short stories need to have a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order. But what about novels? Kate Atkinson seems to believe there can be a beginning, a middle and an end, and then another beginning, plus several more middles ... and why not have a beginning again?

12:58 pm

Wed April 3, 2013

Page-Turning Debut Novel About Race in 1960s Alabama

By Fred Kasten

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An interview with the author.

Today on The Sound of Books with Fred Kasten — the acclaimed debut novel from prize-winning historian Robert J. Norrell: Eden Rise.

1:39 pm

Tue April 2, 2013

The Reading Life with Nathaniel Rich and Pam Houston

By Susan Larson

This week on The Reading Life we meet novelist Nathaniel Rich, author of The Mayor's Tongue and Odds Against Tomorrow.

Then we'll talk with book collector Mark Samuels Lasner, and novelist Pam Houston, whose most recent book is Contents May Have Shifted.

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1:46 pm

Tue April 9, 2013