Mallon talks about Franzen’s “Crossroads,” and Joshua Ferris discusses “A Calling for Charlie Barnes.”
Feb 27
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is a tale of star-crossed lovers: Catherine, the wild daughter of an aristocratic family, and Heathcliff, an orphan whom Catherine’s father brings home unexpectedly. While Catherine’s brother and mother denigrate Heathcliff, depriving him of an ... Show More
54m 11s
Feb 24
Director Clint Bentley on Adapting ‘Train Dreams’ for the Big Screen
The latest film from the writer and director Clint Bentley, “Train Dreams,” is nominated for four Oscars, including best adapted screenplay. The movie is based on Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella of the same name and tells the story of Robert Grainier, a logger in the Pacific Northwe ... Show More
38m 40s
Feb 20
Guillermo del Toro on Writing and Directing the Oscar-Nominated ‘Frankenstein’
For decades, the director Guillermo del Toro has built a career blending the grotesque and the beautiful in films like “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Shape of Water” and “Pinocchio.” Now he’s earned his latest Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley’s ... Show More
35m 46s
Mar 2024
#119 Nicolas Mathieu : « Je suis déjà tombé amoureux de personnes qui avaient des goûts qui m’humiliaient, c’est le problème des relations transclasses »
Le romancier, âgé de 45 ans, qui vient de sortir « Le Ciel Ouvert », une collection de textes initialement postés sur son compte Instagram, nous reçoit chez lui à Nancy.<br/><br/>Nicolas Mathieu évoque son enfance à Golbey dans les Vosges auprès d'un père électromécanicien p ... Show More
49m 59s
Jul 2023
530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
Jacke and Mike discuss the life and works of novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023), who recently died of esophageal cancer. The son of writer Kingsley Amis, Martin forged his own path, writing fifteen novels and several other works of essays and memoirs, with a devotion to style that ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2021
Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch”
<p><span>“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a </span><i><span>New Yorker</span></i><span> movie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of those omnibus-type things where it was a collection of short stories.” The result is the ... Show More
29m 7s
Dec 2023
572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)
Jacke reads "Odour of Chrysanthemums," D.H. Lawrence's story about a woman waiting for her husband, a coal miner, to come home. Then Mike Palindrome, the President of the Literature Supporters Club, stops by to discuss his trip to the Proust Conference and his thoughts on Lawrenc ... Show More
1h 26m
Mar 2024
The New Coming-of-Age Story
<p>For centuries, the bildungsroman, or novel of education, has offered a window into a formative period of life—and, by extension, into the historical moment in which it’s set. Vinson Cunningham sent the draft of “Great Expectations,” a book loosely based on his experience on Ba ... Show More
50m 1s
May 2021
#330 Nick Hornby: Getting Published, Dealing With Rejection
Nick Hornby is the author of many novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet, Naked and others, and now he has a new book Just Like You which I thoroughly enjoyed and is out in paperback. He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of ... Show More
29m 29s