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WAR & REMEMBRANCE PT. 2: British novelist Pat Barker
Part Two of our series on War & Remembrance: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Pat Barker. Barker has written an extraordinary trilogy of novels about World War I - starting with Regeneration and concluding with her Booker Prize winner, The Ghost Road.
A.S. Byatt on her novel Possession: A Romance. "The Future of Eastern European Cinema" panel with Richard Bugajski and Graham Petrie
READING: A.S. Byatt reads from her novel Possession: A Romance (1990, Little Brown). INTERVIEW: Byatt discusses her fiction (from London). PANEL: "The Future of Eastern European Cinema" with Polish filmmaker Ryszard Bugajski ("Interrogtion" (1989)) and film scholar Graham Petrie.
Ben Lerner on Leaving the Atocha Station
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American poet and novelist Ben Lerner. His recent book, Leaving the Atocha Station is being compared to the work of Fernando Pessoa and Albert Camus. It's the 33-year-old poet's first novel, and was named one of the best books of the year by many publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New Statesman.