Rat Catching
Original air date: December 2, 2010
“Mr. Glover describes his books thus: ‘Rat Catching is a study in the art of Rat Catching, plus something extra.’”
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David Sedaris
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Original airdate:November 5, 2010
“Featuring David Sedaris’s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.
In “The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck,” three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In “Hello Kitty,” a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In “The Squirrel and the Chipmunk,” a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.
With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, author of the bestselling Olivia series of children’s books, these stories are David Sedaris at his most observant, poignant, and surprising.”
-from hachettebookgroup.com
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Tim Dorsey
Gator A-Go-Go
Original airdate: March 5, 2010
“They threw the midget over the balcony, and I was off on the spring break vacation of a lifetime…”
-the first line of Gator A-Go-Go by Tim Dorsey
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Kelly Justice & Ward Tefft
2009 Holiday Book Review
Original airdate: December 18, 2009
Liz talks with Kelly Justice, owner of Fountain Bookstore and Ward Tefft, owner of Chop Suey Tuey about the year in books… the book business… and the future of independent bookselling.
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Kevin McNeer
Stalin Thought of You
Original airdate: October 23, 2009
Director Kevin McNeer talks about his documentary, “Stalin Thought of You.”
From stalinthoughtofyou.com:
“By the time he passed away in 2008 at the age of 109, Boris Efimov’s pen had churned out political cartoons for the Soviet press on just about every world event in the past hundred years. Whether in WWII, when Russia faced annihilation by the Nazis – who had orders to hang Efimov on sight – or during the super-power days of the Cold War, Efimov always had an inexhaustible supply of images and jokes to deploy against the enemy. His list of satirical casualties ranges from the Tsar to George Bush.  But behind his titanic career, his charm and his wit, is what Efimov calls “a wound that does not healâ€: the execution of his older brother Mikhail Koltsov. The ambitious Koltsov was a famous journalist, pal of Earnest Hemingway, and a Soviet spy, but he always looked out for his younger brother Boris, who to his dying day worked and slept under his older brother’s portrait. The keys to Koltsov‘s fate and Efimov’s contradictory attitude toward it are bound up in their complex relationship with Stalin. Efimov’s words, drawings and animated films are interwoven with rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives in a kaleidoscopic stroll through the darker side of the 20th century.”
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