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Interview Archives: Books and Reading
Thursday January 12, 2012, 10:06 AM
Good Books to Read
Philip Graham, Ph.D., Professor of Creative Writing, English Department, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
If you're looking for something good to read, we'll have some suggestions for you. Our guest is Philip Graham, professor of English at the University of Illinois. When we feature this topic on the show, the guests always come with armloads of new books to share, and listeners are invited to do the same. Just give us a call and tell us about your recent literary finds.
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Thursday December 15, 2011, 11:06 AM
Gift Books for Children and Teens, Suggestions from the Center for Children's Books Editors
Kate Quealy-Gainer , Assistant Editor, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Deborah Stevenson, Director, Center for Children's Books; Editor, Bulletin of the enter for Children's Books
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Book Industry • Books and Reading
Tuesday June 07, 2011, 11:06 AM
The Book, a Retrospective: Book Publishing and E Books, Insights from a Publisher and a Writer
Philip Graham, Ph.D., Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Illinois; Editor, Poet, Novelist, and NonFiction Writer
Martin Riker, Associate Director / Publicity, Dalkey Archive Press
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Book Industry • Books and Reading • Literature
Wednesday December 22, 2010, 11:06 AM
Children's Books
Deborah Stevenson, Ph.D., Director, Center for Children's Books; Editor, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Assistant Professor of Library Science
Kate Quealy-Gainer, M.L.S., Assistant Editor, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Book Industry • Books and Reading
Tuesday March 09, 2010, 11:06 AM
"The Art of the Book Review"
Jan Ciabattari, Writer, Editor, Columnist, Book Critic
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Books and Reading • English Language • Writing
Tuesday September 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obession
Allison Hoover Bartlett, Journalist
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Biography • Books and Reading
Friday February 10, 2006, 10:06 AM
Business Ethics and Energy Production
Scott W. Tinker, Director of the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Books and Reading • Energy
Tuesday February 07, 2006, 11:06 AM
Books, Continued
Philip Graham, Professor of English at the University of Illinois
Antonia Leotsakos, Pages For All Ages Bookstore
Host: David Inge
Books mentioned or discussed this hour: The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (Cannongate) The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel, Paul Auster, (Henry Holt And Company) Slow Man, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) A Mango Shaped Space, Wendy Mass (Little, Brown And Company) On Beauty, Zadie Smith (The Penguin Press) The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, Elliot Perlman (Riverhead Books)Play now:
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Tuesday February 07, 2006, 10:06 AM
Books
Philip Graham, Professor of English at the University of Illinois
Antonia Leotsakos, Pages For All Ages Bookstore
Host: David Inge
Books mentioned or discussed: The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel, Paul Beatty (Picador) Wide Eyed, Trinie Dalton (Akashic Books, NYC) Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Scribner) Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik Ourednik (Dalkey Archive) The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia (McSweeney's) Air: A Novel, Geoff Ryman (St. Martin's Griffin) beasts of no nation, uzodinma wieala (HarperCollins)Play now:
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Thursday May 05, 2005, 11:06 AM
Books, Continued
Philip Graham, Professor of English at the University of Illinois
Antonia Leotsakos, Pages For All Ages Bookstore
Host: David Inge
Antonia Leotsakos' Book Selections: In The Time Of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez (A Plume Book) Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) Perennials For Illinois, William Aldrich & Don Williamson (Lone Pine Publishing) Autobiography Of A Face, Lucy Greally (Perennial) Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson (Anchor Books) Seven Types Of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman (Riverhead Books) The Untelling: A Novel, Tayari Jones (Warner)Play now:
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