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Our guest, Gioia Timpanelli, is a storyteller. This little gem of a novel is more like a fable for the 21st century, based in the landscape and traditions of Sicily of an indefinite but earlier time. A beautiful story. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host. Broadcast live from Warrensburg.
Our guest is Joan Silber, a magnificent writer whose sixth book is The Size of the World. It is a novel created out of loosely linked stories with characters moving from minor to major positions, and locales ranging from '20s Siam to Vietnam-era Mexico to 9/11 Bloomington. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson are joined in the studio by the Ogdensburg Book Club.
Our guest is Richard Rubin, author of Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South A brilliant page-turner about contemporary Mississippi, and about a journalist whose own conscience is tested by the historic forces still at work there. Rubin is a visiting professor at St. Lawrence University and part of the SLU Writers Series. This broadcast, live from the Old Forge Library, is underwritten by the Town of Webb Fund administered by The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.
Our guest is Thomas McGuane, author of Gallatin Canyon In reviewing this collection of stories, The New York Times wrote, "Astonishing…words as access to the soul." McGuane participates as part of the St. Lawrence University Writers Series and will give a live talk on the SLU campus on April 22 at 8 pm in the Sykes Common Room. On this edition of Readers & Writers, hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson are joined by St. Lawrence University professor of English Kerry Grant.
Our guest is Mildred Armstrong Kalish, author of Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression. Austere conditions provide the context for this richly-storied memoir. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host this on-the-road edition, live from Lake Placid with the High Peaks Reading Group.
Our monthly conversation on contemporary literature is on the road this month, broadcasting live from the St. Lawrence County Arts Council in Potsdam. Our guest is Julie Mars, author of Anybody Any Minute. This novel is set in northern New York with a protagonist who abandons her New York City life to buy a decrepit farm in our neck of the woods. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.
From the NCPR studios, our guest is Dustin Beall Smith, author of Key Grip: A Memoir of Endless Consequences. Smith has led what used to be called a "checkered" life—full of ups and downs, both literal (as a skydiver) and figurative (as an alcoholic). He has a fresh wisdom and honesty. Very engaging. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.
Co-hosts Ellen Rocco, Chris Robinson and John Ernst take your suggestions for books for holiday gift-giving and for winter reading.
This recent novel from Stewart O'Nan, who has been called the "bard of the working class," takes us into the lives of people who work at a restaurant that is going out of business. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson, along with the Massena Book Club, talk to the author in this special on-the-road season, live from Massena Public Library.
Ann Patchett's latest novel Run was picked as a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor. She is also the author of Bel Canto and other critically acclaimed work. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson, joined by the Glens Falls Reading Group, are live from the Red Fox Bookstore in Glens Falls.
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Literature Features:Readers
& Writers Our monthly conversation on contemporary literature
North
Country Reads A one book, one community project for the North Country
Recent
Books Recent regional books received at NCPR
Recommended
by listeners and staff The 2008-09 Winter Reading List
 The
Writing Contest for Young and Adult Writers A biennial competition sponsored
by the Adirondack Center for Writing and NCPR
 AuthorsJuly 3, 2009 | NPR· Author Jag Bhalla catalogs the unique turns of phrase that different cultures use in his new book I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears. July 1, 2009 | NPR· In the novel Touch, Francine Prose tells the story of the conflicting accounts that arise after a 14-year-old girl is groped by three male friends on a school bus. July 1, 2009 | NPR· In the book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by the secret Christian group known as The Family or The Fellowship. June 30, 2009 | NPR· San Jose State University's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest honors bad writing. This year's winner is 55-year-old David McKenzie of Federal Way, Wash., who beat out hundreds of entries from around the world for crafting the worst-written beginning to an imaginary novel. McKenzie discusses his win. June 28, 2009 | NPR· NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Gigi Levangie Grazer about her new novel, Queen Takes King. Grazer is the author of The Starter Wife and Maneater, which was recently adapted for a miniseries. She also wrote the screenplay for the movie, Stepmom.  Corning Canton Plant Manager Joseph W. Neubert presented North Country Public Radio Station Manager Ellen Rocco with a check representing Corning Incorporated Foundation's annual grant in support of North Country Public Radio’s local and national news coverage and Readers & Writers on the Air literature series. NCPR has been the grateful recipient of Corning support since 1982. With major support from
The books to be discussed are available at public libraries throughout northern New York and western Vermont or may be purchased at discount prices at the following participating bookstores. Please identify yourself as a listener to North Country Public Radio's literature series when you request the discount: The
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July 9, Thursday, 7-9 pm: Summer Reading List Call-in
