Robert Sabuda pops up this morning on the Today Show. His Winter's Tale
(S&S Children's, $26.95, 0689853637) will likely be one of the
major titles of the holiday season.
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: poets Ted Mathys, author of Forge (Coffee House Press, $15, 1566891787), and C.K. Williams, who won a Pulitzer in 2000 for his Repair (FSG, $12, 0374527067), wax poetic.
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WAMU's Diane Rehm Show cheers up with Charles Burns, author of Black Hole (Pantheon, $24.95, 037542380X).
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KCRW's Bookworm gives voice to Richard Howard, author of Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003 (FSG, $16, 0374529906) and Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003 (FSG, $16, 0374529892). As the show describes it: "Richard Howard's extraordinary urbanity and sophistication are evident as he explores his influences: Henry James' winding syntax, Proust's evocation of a lost past, Whitman's teeming democracies. All of these sources lead him to his essential themes--desire and loss, love and lack."
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The theme for Oprah today is When I Knew I Was Gay. Participants include:
Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Richard Clarke, the former National Security Advisor whose new book is a novel, The Scorpion's Gate (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: poets Ted Mathys, author of Forge (Coffee House Press, $15, 1566891787), and C.K. Williams, who won a Pulitzer in 2000 for his Repair (FSG, $12, 0374527067), wax poetic.
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WAMU's Diane Rehm Show cheers up with Charles Burns, author of Black Hole (Pantheon, $24.95, 037542380X).
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KCRW's Bookworm gives voice to Richard Howard, author of Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003 (FSG, $16, 0374529906) and Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003 (FSG, $16, 0374529892). As the show describes it: "Richard Howard's extraordinary urbanity and sophistication are evident as he explores his influences: Henry James' winding syntax, Proust's evocation of a lost past, Whitman's teeming democracies. All of these sources lead him to his essential themes--desire and loss, love and lack."
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The theme for Oprah today is When I Knew I Was Gay. Participants include:
- Alan Downs, a clinical psychologist and author of The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay In a Straight Man's World (Da Capo, $23, 0738210110), in which he outlines three stages of the path to emotional health for gay men.
- Robert Trachtenberg, editor of When I Knew (HarperCollins, $22.95, 0060571462), which includes the stories of more than 80 men and women about their first realization that they were gay.
Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Richard Clarke, the former National Security Advisor whose new book is a novel, The Scorpion's Gate (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946).