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            <title>When Are Literary Guys Funny?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[OK, you guessed it.  I&#039;m back at the farm slacking off (working my fingers to the BONE) and so this week&#039;s author podcast does not derive from moi. It is a hilarious riff from Russian born American writer, Gary Shteyngart. Who is Gary Shteyngart you ask? Well if you crossed Woody Allen with Pushkin, I think you&#039;d be close. To prove my point, just watch this "serious video" from Random House introducing Gary&#039;s new book, Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel (Random House, July 27th 2010). It&#039;s fiction. It&#039;s a whopping 352 pages, and the video has real authors going with the schtick [including Edmond White, Mary Gaitskill, Jeffrey Eugenides.} Gary lives on the Lower East side of Manhattan and teaches at Columbia University, Princeton University and Hunter College. Check out his new book, but don&#039;t take MY word for it! Wikipedia (the source of all good journalist&#039;s information) wrote this: "Absurdistan: A Novel was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time Magazine, as well as a book of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. The Russian Debutante&#039;s Handbook won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the best debuts of the year by The Guardian (UK). In June 2010, Shteyngart was named as one of The New Yorker magazine&#039;s "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers."]]></description>
            <author>PKS</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Author Podcast: Matthew Hooton</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Matthew Hooton was named one of Canada&#039;s new literary talents to watch. His first novel is titled, Deloume Road published by Knopf Canada. Matthew&#039;s prose captures the Pacific Northwest in a style reminiscent of other favorite regional  authors whose work shows a reverence for and understanding of the natural physical world; I&#039;m thinking John Vaillant (The Golden Spruce), Steve Gutterson (Snow Falling on Cedars), with a bit of W.O. Mitchell thrown in for good measure. What these authors&#039; writing share is an understanding of place and character all wrapped up in compelling suspenseful stories with intersecting characters from immigrant, native and First Nations backgrounds whose respective lives connect in touching and sometimes violent ways with each other and to nature. You will recall Vaillant&#039;s book dealt with the eco-terrorism of the giant golden spruce destroyed on the Queen Charlottes Island while Gutterson&#039;s novel was set on the small American San Juan Island community of Nordic and Japanese immigrants at conflict over a murder trial. Matthew&#039;s novel takes place on Vancouver Island on the titular rural road and it involves several families whose lives intersect with escalating levels of suspense and mystery one hot summer.]]></description>
            <author>Paula Shackleton</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Author Podcast: Ian McEwan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ian McEwan came to Vancouver this past week as a stop on his book tour to promote his new climate-themed novel, Solar (published by Nan A. Talese in the USA and Knopf in Canada). I had 4 tickets, but had to give them up due to the Iceland ash cloud. Funny that an ash cloud should preclude my "solar" experience, but I suppose that&#039;s poetic irony. While I would presently be offering you an exclusive podcast, if not for the ash factor, I will instead offer you this (pronounced in Shakespearean style) swipe-ed video interview obtained from his publisher. Try not to be distracted by the people walking past the window outside behind where IM is seated. I&#039;m still trying to work out if this indeed is his London flat or whether it&#039;s his publisher, editor or publicist&#039;s flat, in which case they have much better accommodations than NYC publishers. 

Ian McEwan is one of those authors who could write about paint drying and make it seem interesting, even dramatic. He once queried whether literary authors should pay more attention to plot in their writing? The plots in his novels are clever fancies of intricacy criticized by some. For pedantic requirements we list his recent novels many of which have been adapted into memorable films: Atonement, Saturday, Amsterdam, Enduring Love - eighteen titles in total. On Chesil Beach was a charming novelette about young love. In fact one would have to say love and all its many manifestations: passionate love, childish love, incestuous love, unrequited love, tragic love are all covered in McEwan&#039;s writing. Solar is a book about planetary love, or the sufficient lack thereof. 

I wish I could tell you what McEwan is like in person. I wish I could tell you if he seemed jaded by success, or feigned mock coyness despite having it. I wish I could bring you the sound of his voice echoing in the open spaces of St. Andrew&#039;s Wesley Cathedral (a location that curiously made John Irving physically uncomfortable to speak in when he appeared here). I doubt that Ian McEwan is uncomfortable in churches, or on the set of a feature film he&#039;s adapted from one of his books, or riding in a plane first class around the ash cloud that now envelopes his emerald island home. Without further adieu, please enjoy this reading by Ian McEwan and then scroll down to listen to another of our BookBuffet Author Podcast series.]]></description>
            <author>PKS</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Author Podcast: Annabel Lyon</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The great thing about hosting the Olympics in Whistler, BC Canada this week is that we get to attract stunning literary figures like Annabel Lyon. I couldn&#039;t think of a more perfect author to feature this week as Annabel&#039;s book, The Golden Mean  (published by Random House 2009) is set in 300BC Greece (and Olympia being the birth of the Olympics in 700BC... ) is about the relationship between Aristotle and his royal pupil, Alexander III of Macedon, son of King Philip II of Macedon, or as  most of you know him, Alexander the Great. Don&#039;t miss this lesson in history and fiction writing as Annabel speaks to the Whistler Reads book group marking their 28th book discussion. Annabel tells us, "I didn&#039;t want to write an historic fiction - I wanted to write a modern book set 2300 years ago." This podcast is part of a growing series, the BookBuffet Author Podcast Series, with over 100 segments posted on iTunes and various other podcast aggregators. You get to listen here first! Our downloads average in the hundreds per day, and that bandwidth costs money. Consider making a donation to the site to support our efforts to bring you quality conversations with established and emerging writers. From Nobel prize laureate Orhan Pamuk to triple-prize-nominated Canadian writer Annabel Lyon, we bring you the voices and conversations of select authors that will intrigue and inspire you and your group.]]></description>
            <author>Paula Shackleton</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Author Podcast: Orhan Pamuk</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I had the good fortune while on business in snowy London, to nab a ticket to the sold out event on January 12th featuring Turkish author and Nobel Prize Laureate, Orhan Pamuk at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in the Southbank Centre. Pamuk of course is promoting his new novel, The Museum of Innocence (Published by Knopf, October 2009) which has been getting sensational critical reviews and popular acclaim.  Pamuk has been working on Museum for many years and has alluded to it thus: “The story, which takes place in Istanbul between 1975 and today, is about obsessive passion and the great question: What is love, really?”  Tonight, Pamuk is introduced by Hermione Lee who is herself a gifted writer and important critical reviewer. The following podcast begins with an introduction by Ms Lee, followed by a reading by Orhan Pamuk (with amusing antidotes), then a discussion period betwee Pamuk and Lee, and finally a selection of the questions from the audience. There is an interesting segment where Pamuk explains the derivation of the cover photo art: he found the picture in a Turkish photo archive, he photoshopped out the background and added the Bosphorous Sea, he added suspenders to the man in the back seat (which he then had to describe similarly in the book). After all the work,  his publishers worried they&#039;d be sued by anyone of the people depicted in the photo. A search to discover their identities and whereabouts found that the only surviving member is the woman seated in the front seat of the car wearing the kurchief. She was contacted and completely delighted by the story. Pamuk went to meet her and has a photograph taken of himself with her - she is now in her 90&#039;s.]]></description>
            <author>Paula Shackleton</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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