New Letters on the Air

Steve Lopez

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:05:36 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez became immortalized on the silver screen when Robert Downey, Jr., portrayed him in the 2009 movie THE SOLOIST, based upon Lopez'...

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:47:27 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a first-generation American, whose parents are from India and the Philippines. She pays tribute to them with quirky, yet highly visual...

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Michelle Boisseau

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:08:07 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and dead, and wrestles...

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Joseph O'Neill

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:36:13 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Irish-born author Joseph O'Neill discusses his latest novel, Netherland, which has been favorably compared to The Great Gatsby, winning the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award....

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2009 Year in Review

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:28:10 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. In this special anthology of excerpts from previous programs, we look back at 2009 through the lens of poetry, fiction, plays and non-fiction presented by various...

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Mia Leonin

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:04:57 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. The guest feature editor in the newest edition of New Letters magazine, Mia Leonin currently resides in Miami, Florida, but grew up in small-town Missouri. Raised by...

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Annie Barrows

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:44:58 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Known for her Ivy + Bean series of children's books, Annie Barrows never dreamed the outcome of the request of her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer, to revise Shaffer's...

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Mitch Albom

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:19:30 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Writer Mitch Albom's rabbi asked him to deliver his eulogy when he died. The ensuing eight years of meeting with the rabbi as well as working with homeless shelters...

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Heid E. Erdrich

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:39:39 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Poet Heid E. Erdrich comes from a family of writers, including sisters Louise AND Lise. She talks about her talented family, as well as issues of genetics, identity,...

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Laura Moriarty

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:37:57 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio. Novelist Laura Moriarty was a practicing social worker, when she began indulging in the "hobby" of writing. Then she sold her novel and she became a full-time writer....

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Nathan Englander

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:02:10 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio Nathan Englander discusses his novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, about Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s. In this interview, Englander talks about the...

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Sarah Dunant

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:49 -0600

http://www.newletters.org/radio English writer Sarah Dunant is recognized in her home country as a former BBC television/radio host turned popular novelist. Her fame in America, though, rests on her...

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Matthew Eck

ontheair@newletters.org (New Letters magazine) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:36 -0600

Named one of the top five writers under 35 to watch by the National Book Foundation in 2008, Matthew Eck discusses his novel, The Farther Shore, touted by Salon as "the first great war novel of our...

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