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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
(Jorge Luis Borges)

A Child Again
(Robert Coover)

The Dead Emcee Scrolls
(Saul Williams)

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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
(Michael Winterbottom)

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Don Quixote op. 35
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Down and to the Left
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Twice the First Time
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Tristram Shandy A Cock and Bull Story
08.12.2007
 (was 03.12.2006)

Laurence Sterne's 18th Century novel "Tristram Shandy" is a staple of college English Literature courses everywhere. The 600-odd page book-within-a-book-within-a-book is filled to the brim with digressions, stunts and frazzled chronology. For many it's unreadable. For sure it's unfilmable. This time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Tristram Shandy the film. We'll review it, we'll compare the film to the book. We'll even sing about it.

  1. Neda Ulaby unpacks the film "Tristram Shandy"

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    NPR Cultural Critic Neda Ulaby helps Jim Fleming unravel the complications of the 2006 film "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story."

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  2. Wesley Stace on his favorite book, "Tristram Shandy"

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    Jim Fleming talks with novelist Wesley Stace. He explains why "Tristram Shandy" is one of his favorite books.

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  3. Steve Paulson Reports on Argentinian Writer Jorge Luis Borges

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    Steve Paulson produced this essay/report on the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

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  4. Robert Coover on "A Child Again"

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    Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."

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  5. Saul Williams on "The Dead Emcee Scrolls"

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    Saul Williams has been hailed as hip hop's poet laureate. He talks with Anne Strainchamps, and we hear some of his work.

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