Literature General Podcasts

In his book, On the Shores of Politics, Jacques Ranciere argues that the Western Platonic project of utopian politics has been based upon ‘an anti-maritime polemic’. The treacherous boundaries of the political are imagined as island shores, riverbanks, and abysses. Its enemies are the mutinous waves and the drunken sailor. ‘In order to save politics’, […]

Maximum Ride discussion and anlysis, plus discussion of other book series, as well as general goofing off. Minor swearing warning (if needed, all extremely explicit language will be edited out by bleeping) Enjoy our antics! note: Other book series will be compared to Maximum Ride, but not necessarily be a topic for longer than one […]

Author Chats/ Book News/Musical Interludes with Host RIVER JORDAN

The 2010 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, September 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

This month Chris Kane and James Lavery speak to thriller writer Paul Henke at the launch of his tenth novel “the Seventh Circle”. They discuss why writing a biography is something every celebrity will do, and review Michael Parkinson’s “Parkinson” and Paul O’Grady’s “At My Mother’s Knee”. There’s a review of Cory Doctorov’s “Little Brother”, […]

The 2009 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

“F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. I think I’ve proved him wrong. And all because I refused to settle for a one-act existence, the 30 years I taught English in various New York City high schools.” Frank McCourt was already retired when he published his first book at age […]

[itunes pic] ..this was a telephone interview we did with willie & maylo…they were really nice and were talking about the book they both wrote, grace is enough…an interesting biographical account that changes from willie to mylo, chapter by chapter

The 2007 National Book Festival podcast covering author interviews and highlights.

In novels such as the modern classic, Beloved, Toni Morrison has fused history and legend, realism and fantasy, to craft an epic saga of African American life. Although her work is steeped in local history and folklore, the fundamental human values of her art have captured the hearts of readers around the world. After earning […]

Book Reviews done by a 6th grader on popular childrens books. [itunes pic] A podcast done by a 6th grader reviewing popular books. The books that were reviewing today are Artemis Fowl; The Lost Colony, and A Long Way From Chicago

We read terrible books. Bad books. Weird books. Bizarre books. Reviewing the very best of the very worst.

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector. The purchase of multiple copies of the […]

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century and assessing the uniquely American characteristics of their growing body of work. Excerpted from the author’s preface: “In this book something is said about most, if not quite all, of the emergent […]

Welcome to Champagne and Complain with Emily and Ruby, where once a week we pop a brand new bottle of champagne and discuss/complain about our latest reads. The episodes will be named after the book we are discussing, but don’t worry if you haven’t read the story yet! We will let you know at the […]

A podcast for lovers of books and booze, The Bibliofiles with Allie and Meg will air weekly in time for Sunday brunch! Each episode will have a book-inspired cocktail, new bookish topics up for discussion, and some fun along the way for the ladies and listeners!

RTHK Radio 3 collaborated with The MAN Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2006 as moderators of three discussion sessions and in a special series of interviews.