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Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is back for its 25th season. Join us at the Fitzgerald Theater for four special events with renowned authors, celebrating our anniversary with a special $25 ticket price for MPR members and Star Tribune subscribers. Buy tickets here.

November 29, 2002 11:20 AM

Good poems with Garrison Keillor

This fall Garrison Keillor gathered poets and the public together for a night of poetry at the Fitzgerald Theater. The event heralded the publication of his anthology Good Poems, culled from the thousands of poems he has read on the show Writer's Almanac.

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November 22, 2002 11:20 AM

Edmund White

Critic Edmund White comments on culture, gay literature, walking through Paris, and other topics he's written about during his long career. Often hailed as the country's pre-eminent gay writer, he wrote the classic coming-out novel, A Boy's Own Story.

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November 20, 2002 11:20 AM

Jack Miles

Jack Miles is a literary scholar who is considered by some to be a maverick among biblical interpreters. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his first book, God: A Biography. His newest book, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, reframes Jesus's life and mission on earth.

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November 18, 2002 11:20 AM

Talking Volumes author Kien Nguyen

Talking Volumes author Kien Nguyen talks about his new novel The Tapestries, a tale based on the life of his grandfather, an embroider in the court of the last king of Vietnam.

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November 11, 2002 11:20 AM

Sarah Vowell

Author and "This American Life" contributor Sarah Vowell tells us how to be a good American without coming off like an overbearing zealot. Her new book The Partly Cloudy Patriot is a collection of essays ranging from why she loves Abraham Lincoln to her thoughts about rampant flag-waving after September 11th.

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November 8, 2002 12:20 PM

Columnist Thomas Friedman

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman talks to Gary Eichten about the situation in the middle east, terrorism, and other global issues. He is the author of a new book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11.

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November 8, 2002 11:20 AM

Talking Volumes: Pat Conroy and Salman Rushdie (part 2)

Conversation continues with Pat Conroy on his book, My Losing Season. Later in the hour, we hear excerpts from an October Talking Volumes program with Salman Rushdie, author of Step Across This Line. In Rushdie's latest collection of non-fiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to "step across this line" with him.

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November 8, 2002 10:20 AM

Talking Volumes: Pat Conroy (part 1)

A Talking Volumes rebroadcast of Pat Conroy and Katherine Lanpher at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul discussing Conroy's new book, My Losing Season. Conroy writes of his senior year at military school and his tortured relationship with his father.

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October 30, 2002 11:20 AM

Minnesota-born author Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien is a Minnesota-born author known for his writing about the Vietnam war and its legacy. Now he has a new novel out, based on a class reunion at a school remarkably similar to his alma mater Macalester College.

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October 22, 2002 11:20 AM

Talking Volumes with Pat Conroy

Talking Volumes author Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, discusses his latest book, a memoir of his life as a young basketball player. It's called, My Losing Season.

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