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For a listing of all on-line archive programs, go to:
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YOU TUBE Excerpt:
Clark Blaise & Bharati Mukherjee at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley

Thursday, May 17, 2012
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
Extended 33-minute complete interview

Thursday, May 10, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, abbreviated fund drive program
Extended complete interview

Thursday, May 3, 2012
Katherine Boo, author of beneath the beautiful forevers. abbreviated fund drive program
Extended complete interview

Thursday, April 26, 2012
Christopher Bram, author of Eminent Outlaws. Extended 40-minute web edit

Thursday, April 19, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, April 12, 2012
Friday, April 13,2012: Open Book
Two-part interview with Hari Kunzru, author of the novel Gods Without Men.
Complete 58-minute program

Thursday, April 5, 2012
William J. Broad, author of The Science of Yoga. Extended 51-minute web edit

Friday, March 30, 2012
Open Book: Anne Lamott, co-author of Some Assembly Required. Extended 35-minute web edit

Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet Extended 36-minute web edit

Thursday, March 22, 2012
Katherine Boo, author of behind the beautiful forevers.  Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday March 15, 2012
Edmund White, author of Jack Holmes and His Friend.  Extended 33-minute web edit

Friday, March 9, 2012
Open Book: Nick Olivero, Artistic Director of Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco
Extended 38-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Nick Olivero page

Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thrity Umrigar, author of The World We Found  Extended 42-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Thrity Umrigar page

Thursday, March 1, 2012
Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy and Foreskin's Lament.
Extended 40-minute web edit

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pre-empted for fund-drive

Newly Uploaded Archive Programs
Barry Levinson   2003 book tour for the novel Sixty-Six and director of films such as Diner, Rain Man and Wag the Dog
Diane Johnson   2003 book tour for L'Affaire, also the author of Le Mariage and Le Divorce.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc   2003 book tour for Random Family, now considered a classic in immersion reportage.
Erik Larson  2003 book tour for Devil in the White City.
Barry Lopez 2004 book tour for Resistance

Thursday, February 16, 2012
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Lisa See, author of Dreams of Joy.
Rebroadcast.
Extended 42-minute web edit
Lisa See/Bookwaves page

Thursday, February 9, 2012
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
William Gibson, author of Distrust That Particular Flavor.   Extended 36-minute web edit
Bookwaves/William Gibson page

Thursday, February 2, 2012
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire
Extended 34-minute web edit

Friday, January 27, 2012
Open Book: Lorenzo Pisoni, co-author and star of Humor Abuse, at A.C.T. through Feb. 5, 2012.
Extended 34-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Lorenzo Pisoni page

Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
Extended 33-minute web edit

Thursday, January 19, 2012
Alan Hollinghurst, author of The Stranger's ChildExtended 43-minute web edit

Friday, January 13, 2012
Open Book: Tony Taccone, author of the play Ghost Light, at Berkeley Rep thru February 19th.
Extended 37-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Tony Taccone page

Thursday, January 12, 2012
James Curtis, author of Spencer Tracy: A Biography. Extended 43-minute web edit

Thursday, January 5, 2012
Mark Vonnegut, author of Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness, Only More So.
Extended 34-minute web edit

Thursday, December 29, 2011
Nicole Krauss, author of  Great House. Rebroadcast.
Extended 40-minute web edit

Thursday, December 22, 2011
Stephen Sondheim, author of Look! I Made a Hat.
Bookwaves/Stephen Sondheim page

Monday, December 19, 2011
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
(sitting in for Denny Smithson)
Extended 46-minute web edit

Thursday, December 15, 2011
Fund Drive Program: Calvin Trillin
Extended 37-minute web edit of Trillin interview

Friday, December 9, 2011
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company and director of The Glass Menagerie, running through December 18.
Bookwaves/Jasson Minadakis page
Extended edit: Part One    Part Two

Thursday, December 8, 2011
Tony Horwitz, author of Midnight Rising.
Extended 43-minute web edit

Thursday, December 1, 2011
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, November 24, 2011
Clark Blaise, author of The Meagre Tarmac and Bharati Mukherjee, author of New Miss India, recorded live at Pegasus Bookstore on Solano Avenue in Berkeley.

Friday, November 18, 2011
Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, Part Two
Complete 54-minute interview
Bookwaves/Susan Orlean page

Thursday, November 17, 2011
Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, Part One.

Friday, November 11, 2011
Open Book: Loretta Greco, Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre, and director of Annapurna, through December 4, 2011
Extended 38-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Loretta Greco Page

Thursday, November 10, 2011
Neal Stephenson, author of REAMDE
Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, November 3, 2011
Amitav Ghosh, author of River of Smoke
Extended 43-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Amitav Ghosh page

Thursday, October 27, 2011
Calvin Trillin, author of Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin   Extended 37-minute web edit
For information on how to receive this interview (and Trillin's speech) as a DVD, go to kpfa.org

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Helen Benedict, author of Sand Queen.
Extended 45-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Helen Benedict page

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Pre-empted for fund drive

Thursday, October 6, 2011
Pre-empted for Occupy Wall Street Special programming

Friday, September 30, 2011
Open Book: Rita Moreno, star of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep through October 30, 2011
Extended 42 minute edit
Bookwaves/Rita Moreno page

Thursday, September 29, 2011
Julie Otsuka, author of The Buddha in the Attic.

Thursday, September 22, 2011
Janet Reitman, author of  Inside Scientology.  Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, September 15, 2011
Former co-host Richard A. Lupoff discusses his latest work.

Friday, September 9, 2011
Open Book: Tom Ross, Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley.
Bookwaves/Tom Ross Page
Complete 42-minute interview

Thursday, September 8, 2011
Henning Mankell & Jacques d'Amboise: previously unaired excerpts
Complete Henning Mankell interview
Complete Jacques d'Amboise interview

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed.
Rebroadcast.  Complete 2010 interview

Thursday, August 25, 2011
Kurt Vonnegut Archive interview from 1991, hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. Full re-edited interview

Thursday, August 18, 2011
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes. Extended 41-minute web edit

Thursday, August 11, 2011
Pre-empted for special programming

Thursday, August 4, 2011
Ashley Judd, author of All That is Bitter and Sweet. Abbreviated Fund Drive rebroadcast.
Extended 47-minute web edit

Thursday, July 28, 2011
Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms
Extended 32-minute web edit

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts
Extended 41-minute web edit

Thursday, July 14, 2011
Lisa See, author of Dreams of Joy
Extended 42-minute web edit
Lisa See/Bookwaves page

Thursday, July 7, 2011
Henning Mankell, author of The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.
Extended 46-minute web edit

Thursday, June 30, 2011
Cara Black, author of Murder in Passy. Recorded at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, California before an audience..
Extended 31-minute web edit

Thursday June 23, 2011
Steve Earle, singer-songwriter, and author of
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Extended 44-minute web edit

Thursday, June 16, 2011
Bharati Mukherjee, author of Miss New India
Extended 43-minute web edit

Friday, June 10, 2011
John Fisher, artistic director of Theatre Rhino and playwright/director of Fighting Mac.
Bookwaves/John Fisher page

Thursday, June 9, 2011
Anna Deavere Smith, playwright/performer of Let Me Down Easy, at Berkeley Rep thru July 10th.
Bookwaves/Anna Deavere Smith page

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur  Extended 37-minute web edit

Thursday, May 26, 2011
Ashley Judd, author of All That Is Bitter and Sweet.  Extended 47-minute web edit

Thursday, May 19, 2011
Pre-empted for KPFA Fund Drive

Thursday, May 12, 2011
Colin Thubron, author of To a Mountain in Tibet (abbreviated fund-drive rebroadcast)
Full 30-minute program
Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, May 5, 2011
Sarah Vowell, author of Unfamiliar Fishes
Extended 38 minute web edit
Fund drive abbreviated program

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Jacques d'Amboise, author of I Was a Dancer
Extended 45-minute web edit

Thursday, April 21, 2011
Stefan Kanfer, author of Tough Without A Gun Extended 40-minute web edit

Thursday, April 14, 2011
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
Extended 38-minute web edit

Friday, April 8, 2011
Open Book: Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of A.C.T., American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco
Bookwaves/Carey Perloff page

Thursday, April 7, 2011
Colin Thubron, author of To a Mountain in Tibet
Extended 42-minute web edit

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Andre Dubus III, author of Townie
Extended 43-minute web edit

Friday, March 25, 2011
Open Book: Kenneth Bowser, director of the film Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.
Extended 35-minute web edit

Thursday, March 24, 2011
Jasmin Darznik, author of The Good Daughter
Extended 38-minute web edit

Thursday, March 17, 2011
Ann Beattie, author of The New Yorker Stories
Extended 40-minute web edit

Friday, March 11, 2011
Open Book: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep discussing this season and the upcoming one.
Extended 40-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Tony Taccone page

Thursday, March 10, 2011
Joseph O'Connor, author of Ghost Light
Extended 53-minute web edit

Thursday, March 3, 2011
Special one-hour fund drive program: 2007 Interview with Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times.
Complete 45-minute interview

Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Richard Chamberlain and Margaret Atwood

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Zadie Smith and Paul Krugman.

Thursday, February 10, 2011
Maxine Hong Kingston, author of I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Extended 32-minute web edit

Thursday, February 3, 2011
Colm Toibin, author of The Empty Family
Extended 39-minute web edit

Friday, January 28, 2011
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company.
Bookwaves/Jasson Minadakis page
(includes extended web edit in two parts)

Thursday, January 27, 2011
David Vann, author of Caribou Island
Extended 41-minute web edit
Bookwaves/David Vann Page

Thursday, January 20, 2011
Roseanne Barr, author of Roseanne-archy.
Extended 40-minute web edit

Thursday, January 13, 2011
Gerald Nachman, author of Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America.
Extended 35-minute web edit

Thursday, January 6, 2011
Salman Rushdie, author of Luka and the Fire of Life.   Extended 40-minute web edit.

Featured Interviews from 2010
A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book
Program as aired December 23, 2010
Extended 37-minute web edit;
Additional 10-minute segment on World War I & modern politics.

Michael Cunningham, author of By Nightfall.
Program as aired December 16, 2010
Extended 31-minute web edit

Nora Ephron, author of I Remember Nothing.
Program as aired December 9, 2010
Extended 40-minute web edit

Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood.
Program as aired November 18, 2010
Extended 34-minute web edit

Stephen Sondheim, legendary composer and lyricist, and author of Finishing The Hat.
Extended 50-minute web edit
Bookwaves/Stephen Sondheim page

Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed and New York Times Op-Ed columnist. Part One of two parts. Aired October 21 & 28, 2010
Complete 61-minute interview.

William Gibson, author of zero history.
Program as aired October 14, 2010
Extended 40-minute web edit

David Mitchell, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Program as aired August 26, 2010
Extended 40-minute edit

Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.    Program as aired July 22, 2010  Extended 40-minute edit

Alan Furst, author of Spies of the Balkans
Program as aired July 15, 2010
Extended 40-minute edit

Jane Smiley, author of Private Life
Program as aired July 8, 2010
Extended 36-minute edit

Dave Barry, author of I'll Mature When I'm Dead
Extended 45-minute edit
Bookwaves Page/Dave Barry

Peter Carey, author of Parrot & Olivier in America
Extended 40-minute edit
Bookwaves Page/Peter Carey

Anna Quindlen, author of Every Last One.
Program as aired June 3, 2010
Extended 34-minute web edit
Spoiler questions

David Grann, author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Complete 51-minute interview

Anne Lamott, author of novel Imperfect Birds.
Extended 34-minute edit

Ian McEwan, author of the novel Solar
Extended 44-minute web edit

Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving
Extended 45-minute web edit

Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler's Wife.
extended 31-minute edit
Her Fearful Symmetry Spoiler Questions

Mary Karr, author of the memoir, Lit.
Extended 37 minute web edit

Featured Interviews from 2009:
John Irving, author of Last Night at Twisted River
December 10, 2009: Part One
December 17, 2009: Part Two

Tracy Kidder, author of Strength in What Remains. Aired December 3, 2009
Part One 3-3:30 pm
Part Two  3:30-4 pm

Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
November 26, 2009: Part One
January 7, 2010: Part Two

Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City
Program as aired November 19, 2009
Extended 36-minute web edit

E.L, Doctorow, author of Homer & Langley.
Program as aired November 12, 2009
Extended 38-minute web edit

Francine Prose, author of Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.
Program as aired October 29, 2009
Extended 35-minute web edit

Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic
Program as aired October 22, 2009
extended 35-minute web edit

Margaret Atwood, author of the novel The Year of the Flood.
Program as aired October 15, 2009
Extended 40-minute web edit.

Featured Interviews
Gore Vidal, author of Point to Point Navigation,  a memoir. Rebroadcast February 1, 2007.  Extended 36-minute web edit


Special Salman Rushdie Video Interview
Richard Wolinsky talks with Salman Rushdie at Montalvo Arts Center, May 20, 2007


ALPHABETICAL ARCHIVES
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.


2012 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Shalom Auslander, Katherine Boo, William J. Broad, James Curtis, Thomas Frank, William Gibson, Alan Hollinghurst, Hari Kunzru, Anne Lamott, Ben Marcus, Tea Obreht, Nick Olivero, Lorenzo Pisoni, Cheryl Strayed, Tony Taccone, Thrity Umrigar, Mark Vonnegut, Edmund White

2011 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Roseanne Barr, Ann Beattie, Helen Benedict, Cara Black, Clark Blaise, Kenneth Bowser, Mark Childress, Jasmin Darznik, Andre Dubus III, Steve Earle, John Fisher, Joshua Foer, Amitav Ghosh, Loretta Greco, Stephen Greenblatt, Oscar Hijuelos, Tony Horwitz, Ashley Judd, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erik Larson, Richard A. Lupoff, Henning Mankell, Paula McLain, Jasson Minadakis, Rita Moreno, Bharati Mukherjee, Gerald Nachman, Joseph O'Connor, Susan Orlean, Julie Otsuka, Carey Perloff, Arthur Phillips, Janet Reitman, Tom Ross, Salman Rushdie, Lisa See, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Sondheim, Neal Stephenson, Tony Taccone, Colin Thubron, Colm Toibin, Calvin Trillin, David Vann. Kurt Vonnegut (1991), Sarah Vowell.

2010 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Dave Barry, Best of Bookwaves, Deborah Blum, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Gail Collins, Justin Cronin, Michael Cunningham, Sarah Dunant, Jennifer Egan, Barry Eisler, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Nora Ephron, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alan Furst, William Gibson, Sharon Gless, David Grann, Sam Harris (performer), Adam Haslett, Myrlin A. Hermes, Peter Hessler, Mary Karr, Robert Kelley, Nicole Krauss, Mark Kurlansky, Anne Lamott, Janice Y.K. Lee, Norris Church Mailer, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Eddie Muller, Audrey Niffenegger, Anna Quindlen, Carey Perloff, Julie Powell, Mary Roach, Indhu Rubasingham, Mark Rucker, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, Stephen Sondheim, Les Waters, Garry Wills, Panel on bookstores & publishing.

2009 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Cari Beauchamp, T.C. Boyle, David Carr, Kate Christensen, Ed Decker, E.L. Doctorow, Sarah Dunant, John Fisher, Glen David Gold, Adam Gopnik, Amy Goodman & David Goodman, David Grann, Allegra Huston, Steven Johnson, John Irving, Tracy Kidder, John Lescroart, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Lewis (2006), Yiyun Li, Colum McCann, Nicholas Meyer, Lorrie Moore, Walter Mosley, Azar Nafisi, Sharon Ott, George Pelecanos, Carey Perloff, Francine Prose, Sherri Reynolds, Richard Russo, Lisa See, Neil Sheehan, Jerry Stahl, Jonathan Tropper, Thrity Umrigar, John Updike (2006), Abraham Verghese, Norah Vincent, Colson Whitehead, John Wray

2008 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Paul Auster, Stefan Merrill Block, Augusten Burroughs, Ian Buruma, Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, Sloane Crossley, Louise Erdrich, John Fisher, Karen Joy Fowler, Thomas Frank, Andrew Sean Greer, David Guterson, Jennifer Haigh, Scott Heim, Aleksander Hemon, Tony Hillerman (2002), Ha Jin, Janis Ian, Stefan Kanfer, Hanif Kureishi, Dennis Lehane, Annie Leibovitz, Anthony Lewis, Delroy LIndo, Norman MailerTribute, James McBride, Sue Miller, Stewart O'Nan, Joseph O'Neill, Ann Packer, Richard Preston, Richard Price, David Rieff, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, John Burnham Schwartz, David Sedaris, David Shields, Tony Taccone, Paul Theroux. David Thomson

2007 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Kim Addonizio, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Steven Bach, John Banville, Elizabeth Berg, Amy Bloom, Bill Bradley, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Joe Conason, Edwidge Danticat, Eugene Drucker, Barry Eisler, Nathan Englander, Steve Erickson, Sebastian Faulks, Charles Frazier, William Gibson, David Halberstam (1994), Robert Harris, Jim Harrison, A.M.. Homes, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Horan, Nick Hornby, Molly Ivins (2003), Elizabeth Kolbert, Paul Krugman, Armistead Maupin, Colum McCann, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Nicky Silver, Scott Smith, Susan Sontag (2000), Judith Stone, Robert Stone, Jeffrey Toobin, Bruce Wagner, Alison Weir, Marianne Wiggins, Douglas Wolk.


2006 Interviews from the KPFA Archive

Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, John Baxter, John W. Dean, Elizabeth Dewberry, Jennifer Egan, Katrina Firlik, Tim Flannery, Alan Furst, Alan Hollinghurst, Patricia Holt, Tony Kushner, George Lakoff, Anne Lamott,  David Leavitt, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Lewis, Gayle Lynds, Stephen McCauley, Jay McInerney, Mark Crispin Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Perry, Frank Rich, Lisa See, Zadie Smith, Dana Spiotta, George Stevens Jr., Gay Talese, Michael Tolkin, John Updike, Sarah Vowell, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, Michael York

2005 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
John Berendt, David Bezmozgis, Russell Banks, Robert Olen Butler, Margaret Cho, Susanna Clarke, Michael Cunningham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Bret Easton Ellis, Roger Ebert, Umberto Eco, Nicholas Evans, John Falk, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Frank, Adam Gopnik, Steven Greenblatt, Jonathan Harr, Rupert Holmes, Diane Johnson, Gerard Jones, Neil Jordan, Anne Lamott, Peter Lefcourt, Vyvyanne Loh, Chris Mooney, Martin Moran, Kem Nunn, Amos Oz, George Pendle, David Plotz, David Rakoff, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Bart Schneider, Martin Cruz Smith, Amy Tan, David Thomson, Mychael Urban, John Vaillant, William T. Vollman.
 
2004 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Chris Abani, Diane Ackerman, Ken Auletta, Peter Biskind, Augusten Burroughs,  Donald Currie, E. L. Doctorow, Maureen Dowd, Firoozeh Dumas, Sarah Dunant, Nerrudin Farah, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Sean Greer, Kent Haruf, Daniel Hecht, Ursula Hegi, Edward P. Jones, Faye & Jonathan Kellerman, Gayle Lynds,  Barry Lopez, Walter Mosley, Garth Nix, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Richard Price, Mary Roach, Frank M. Robinson, Jerry Stahl, Jeff Stetson, Paul Theroux. 
    
2003 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Margaret Atwood, James Carroll, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Arthur Gelb, Molly Ivins, Diane Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Erica Jong, Lauren Kessler, Anne Lamott, Dennis Lehane, Barry Levinson, Robert McNeil, John Murray, Edna O'Brien, Suzan-Lori Parks, Arthur Phillips, Annie Proulx, Dan Savage, Richard Schickel, Alexander McCall Smith, Bruce Sterling, Robert Stone, Garry Wills.

Featured Interview Archive Page 1:
Terrence McNally, Molly Ivins,: Barry Levinson, Richard Chamberlain, Dennis Lehane, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Michael Ondaatje, Erik Larson, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides,

Featured Interview Archive Page 2:
Mart Crowley, Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Carol Channing, Ann Patchett.
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