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About Books
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Faye Clow hosts a half hour of literary news and information, interviewing authors and editors, and bringing you the latest on libraries, literary events and publishing.

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Program Archive
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March 6
Michael Williams: "Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home"

February 27
Jeffrey Siger: "Assassins of Athens"

February 20
Nancy Goldstone: "The Lady Queen"

February 13
Toby Lester: "The Fourth Part of the World"

February 6
Harriet Riesen: "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women"

January 30
Mitch Omer: "Damn Good Food"

January 23
Jan Keesen: "Cardinal Men and Scarlet Women"

January 16
Jane Seymour Jones: "A Dangerous Liaison"

January 9
Ted Leeson: "Inventing Montana"

January 2
Bruce Feiler: "America's Prophet"

December 26
Raghavan Iyer: "660 Curries"

December 19
Sandra Harper: "Over the Holidays"

December 12
Stanley Weintraub: "General Sherman's Christmas"

December 5
Kaylie Jones: "Lies My Mother Never Told Me"

November 28
Lauren Weber: "In Cheap We Trust"

November 21
Debra Spark: "Good for the Jews"

November 14
Murray Brown: "The Book Shopper"

November 7
Joseph Kanon: "Stardust"

October 31
Arnie Bernstein: "Bath Massacre"

October 24
Kapka Kasabova: "Street Without a Name"

October 17
Diane Ackerman: "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways To Greet the Day"

October 10
Mardi Link: "Isadore's Secret"

October 3
Judith Jones: "The Pleasures of Cooking for One"

September 26
Christopher Beha: "The Whole Five Feet"

September 19
Dennis Drabelle: "Mile High Fever"

September 12
Tom Gjelton: "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba"

September 5
Daniel Silva: "The Defector"

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August 29
Ida Lichter: "Muslim Women Reformers"

August 22
David Savran: "Highbrow/Lowdown"

August 15
Dan Hofstadter: "The Earth Moves"

August 8
Bryan Burrough: "Public Enemies"

August 1
Vanina Marsot: "Foreign Tongue"

July 25
Emyl Jenkins: "The Big Steal"

July 18
Peter DeJonge: "Shadows Still Remain"

July 11
Michael Perry: "Coop"

July 4
Laura Dave: "The Divorce Party"


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