Harperaudio Presents
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Sinopsis
The podcast network that brings you conversation and inspiration from your favorite authors, editors and creators – giving you new perspectives on the world of books, culture and the arts.
Episodios
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Conversation with Whitney Cummings
15/05/2015 Duración: 40minDan Levy, award-winning comedian, writer, and producer, talks to Whitney Cummings, creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as well as the co-creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, in an excerpt from a hilarious new podcast from Dan, called People in My Phone, where he interviews his friends, or people in his phone.
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Stephen Dubner
12/05/2015 Duración: 38minStephen Dubner talks about how the life of musician held less appeal than the life of a writer – (and what other pursuits he considered in addition to writing), his first book Choosing Your Religion, and how he selected the 133 pieces that make up When to Rob a Bank.
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All Involved: Day Six
11/05/2015 Duración: 33minListen to exclusive author commentary and an excerpt from ‘Day Six’ from Ryan Gattis’ ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In this final excerpt Gattis tells us about the character Mikey and his relationship to the murder victim Ernesto Vera. Narrator Anthony Ray Perez reads. WARNING: Excerpt is intended for mature audiences only, is unsuitable for children and contains graphic language. (Excerpts from Days One through Five are available from HarperAudio Presents)
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Norton Juster and The Phantom Tollbooth
05/05/2015 Duración: 27minNorton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, discusses how writing this classic children’s book came about (procrastination is involved), how as a child he found apartment buildings with elevators fascinating, and how some questions from his editor stumped him. David Hyde Pierce, reads the first chapter from the book.
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All Involved: Day Five
04/05/2015 Duración: 51minListen to exclusive author commentary and an excerpt from ‘Day Five’ from Ryan Gattis’ ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In this excerpt Gattis tells us about the character ‘Termite’ and his relationship to the murder victim Ernesto Vera. Narrator Anthony Ray Perez reads. WARNING: Excerpt is intended for mature audiences only, is unsuitable for children and contains graphic language. (Excerpts from Days One through Four are available from HarperAudio Presents)
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Austin Bunn
27/04/2015 Duración: 28minJoin Austin Bunn, whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, Salon, The Atlantic, One Story, and many other publications talk about his short story collection, THE BRINK. It’s a fascinating conversation that covers his approach to creating titles, why he believes the television pilot is the new novel, and his work with the Patient Voice Project.
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All Involved: Day Four
27/04/2015 Duración: 35minListen to exclusive author commentary and an excerpt from ‘Day Four’ from Ryan Gattis’ ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In this excerpt Gattis tells us about the character ‘Clever’ and his relationship to the murder victim Ernesto Vera. Narrator Anthony Ray Perez reads. WARNING: Excerpt is intended for mature audiences only, is unsuitable for children and contains graphic language. (Excerpts from Days One through Three are available from HarperAudio Presents)
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All Involved: Day Three
20/04/2015 Duración: 58minListen to exclusive author commentary and an excerpt from ‘Day Three from Ryan Gattis’ ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In this excerpt Gattis tells us about the character nurse Gloria Rubio and her relationship to the murder victim Ernesto Vera. Narrator Marisol Ramirez reads. WARNING: Excerpt is intended for mature audiences only, is unsuitable for children and contains graphic language. (Excerpts from Days One and Two available from HarperAudio Presents)
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Essential Welty
20/04/2015 Duración: 27minIn 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading five of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered Why I Live at the P.O. and now we have the the great fortune to listen. Here now is Eudora Welty reading her short story, Why I live at the P.O.
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Neal Shusterman
20/04/2015 Duración: 17minCongratulations to Neal Shusterman – his YA novel, Challenger Deep just won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People! Challenger Deep uses a split world to convey a young man’s struggle to determine his reality in the face of schizophrenia – hear about the deeply personal origins of the novel as well as an excerpt.
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All Involved: Day Two
14/04/2015 Duración: 30minWARNING: Excerpt is intended for mature audiences only, is unsuitable for children and contains graphic language. (Excerpt from Day One available from HarperAudio Presents) Listen to exclusive author commentary and an excerpt from ‘Day Two’ from Ryan Gottis’ ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In this excerpt Gattis tells us about the character Big Fate and his relationship to the murder victim Ernesto Vera. Narrator Anthony Ray Perez reads.
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None Of The Above
13/04/2015 Duración: 25minNone of the Above, a first novel by I.W. Gregorio, is Mean Girls meets Middlesex -- a groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Hear Gregorio talk about why we need ‘window’ books in addition to ‘mirror’ books; how training to be a surgeon made her a better writer and the joy of the editorial letter.
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All Involved: Day One
06/04/2015 Duración: 49minHear Ryan Gattis discuss his new book ALL INVOLVED, a gritty and cinematic work of fiction that vividly re-creates Los Angeles after the 1992 verdict to acquit LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King. In the novel Gattis tells 17 interconnected first-person narratives -- gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in extraordinary circumstances that paint a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults Ryan Gattis into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and Richard Price. WARNING: Excerpt Intended for mature audiences only and is unsuitable for children. Excerpt contains graphic language.
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Jason Miller: Down Don't Bother Me
31/03/2015 Duración: 23minJason Miller talks about his debut novel, DOWN DON’T BOTHER ME, an atmospheric, wickedly funny mystery set in the flat and withering landscape of the southern Illinois mining country known as “little Egypt”.
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Laura Lippman
23/03/2015 Duración: 25minLaura Lippman is heralded for thoughtful, timely crime novels set in her beloved hometown of Baltimore. Now a perennial New York Times bestseller, HUSH HUSH is her 12th book to feature private detective and new mother Tess Monaghan, working on a disturbing case involving murder and a manipulative mother.
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Lauren Oliver
09/03/2015 Duración: 23minLauren Oliver, author of New York Times bestselling novels BEFORE I FALL, PANIC, and the DELIRIUM trilogy, talks to us about her new novel, VANISHING GIRLS, a gripping story about two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident. Lauren shares how she approaches writing for different audiences, why she chooses a central question for each of her books, how good books can explore scary topics in a safe way, the differences between writing a novel and screenplay and how screenwriting stretched her as a novelist.
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Matt Damon reads Howard Zinn
02/03/2015 Duración: 23minSince its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools–with its emphasis on great men in high places–to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. In this recording you’ll hear from Zinn reading from his introduction to the book, and you’ll hear Matt Damon, an American actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on Good Will Hunting, read passages that span the Summer of 1966, the 1967 Urban Riots in Newark and Detroit, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, to name a few highlights.
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Kim Gordon, guitarist with Sonic Youth, talks about her memoir, Girl in a Band
24/02/2015 Duración: 14minKIM GORDON is an artist, musician, producer, fashion designer, writer and actress. She is a founding member of the experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth and she’s written a fierce, honest story of her life, Girl in a Band. Hear Kim discuss her writing process and influences on her work.
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Welcome to Braggsville
17/02/2015 Duración: 19minRising literary star T. Geronimo Johnson talks about his darkly humorous novel, WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE, where, as Ron Rash says, ‘every racial assumption is both acknowledged and challenged in ways that are at times hilarious, at other times poignant’.
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Jasmine Warga, author of MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES
09/02/2015 Duración: 19minDebut author Jasmine Warga discusses MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES, a stunning novel about the transformative power of love.