It's the season finale, so obviously I insisted our last guest be a Nobel Prize winner and...HERE HE IS! Kazuo Ishiguro, arguably one of our greatest writers of contemporary fiction, and a very lovely man to boot. His most famous book, The Remains of the Day, was written when Ishiguro was only 35. It won the Booker Prize and was adapted into a major film sta ... Show More
Mar 2021
Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines
<p>Kazuo Ishigruo’s eighth novel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/books/review/klara-and-the-sun-kazuo-ishiguro.html" target="_blank">“Klara and the Sun,”</a> is his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It’s narrated by Klara, an Artificial Frien ... Show More
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May 2023
511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell
Jacke talks to Alison Strayer, translator of several books by French author Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. PLUS he talks to author and Chekhov expert Bob Blaisdell about his choice for the last book he will ever read.
ANNIE ERNAUX (The Years, Gettin ... Show More
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