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Lolita

Stanley Kubrick’s film classic “Lolita” is 50 years old this week. Steve Paulson reports on the controversial novel on which it was based: Nabokov’s “Lolita.”
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Writing Eros

We're putting together a new poetry show for you. And though we love the hour, there's not much talk of love in it. Since poetry might have no greater subject matter, we're sharing this 2009 interview with Li-Young Lee on love, mystic and poetic.
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How to Win a Nobel

This week's the anniversary of Crick and Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and we're listening back to this old interview with Watson, on advice to young scientists.
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200 Years of Snow White

Two hundred years since the Brothers Grimm published their version Snow White, Universal Studios is attempting to reclaim the dark mood of the original. For those who prefer the original: here's fairy-tale scholar and writer, A.S. Byatt.

Getting to Know Stieg

It sometimes seems as though everyone has read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the books that followed. The author, Stieg Larsson, died before he could tell the stories behind the books. Now his companion of more than 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, is doing it for him.
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1984

George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty-four," was published on June 8th, 1949. We've got a fistful of Orwellian interviews to listen to while you're under surveillance.
Tru Blood

Vamp

True Blood's new season starts on June 10th. It's all kitschy fun and games and good-looking monsters on the screen. But there are people out there who believe themselves to be magical creatures...

Bradbury's Good Ending

Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury has died. We're hoping to dig up some old tape of an interview with him from our not-as-yet-digital archive. Meanwhile, here's Jane Hamilton reflecting on Bradbury's end to "Dandelion Wine."

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