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In a fascinating conversation, Eleanor Wachtel talks to Edward St. Aubyn about his Patrick Melrose novels on CBC Radio’s Writers and Company:

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KCRW’s Bookworm also recently broadcast a two-part interview with St. Aubyn about the books.

Part One:

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Part Two:

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Full disclosure: The collected edition of the first four Patrick Melrose novels has just been published in the US by Picador Books who are distributed  in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books. At Last, the latest Patrick Melrose novel is published separately by Farrah, Strauss & Giroux who are distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre (not my employer).

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Jeanette Winterson on WNYC

by Dan on March 23, 2012

Author Jeanette Winterson talks about her memoir Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? with Leonard Lopate on WNYC:

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Tolstoy: Russian Life on WNYC

December 9, 2011

Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life, talks to Leonard Lopate about the life and legacy of Leo Tolstoy on WNYC: (Pictured above: The UK edition of Tolstoy: A Russian Life published by Profile Books)

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Umberto Eco on WNYC

November 8, 2011

Umberto Eco discusses his new novel The Prague Cemetery with Leonard Lopate on WNYC:

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Jay Rubin on Translating Murakami

November 3, 2011

In an interview for the New Yorker, Haruki Murakami’s longtime translator Jay Rubin talks about the work of the Japanese author (whose new book 1Q84 has just been published) and his own work as a translator: New Yorker Outloud: Translating Murakami mp3 The New Yorker also published a Murakami short story, Town of Cats, translated by Rubin, [...]

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