30 en-us http://www.theworld.org/node/17375 Copyright 2009 PRI's The World PRI's The World presents the World Books podcast, a spotlight on international literary news, trends, and authors. Created by The World's Bill Marx, the World Books podcast features interviews with authors, critics, publishers, and translators from around the globe. The World is a US-based international news and analysis program co-produced by the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH Public Radio in Boston. Copyright 2009 PRI's The World Bill Marx no Public Radio International World Books theworld@pri.org http://www.theworld.org/images/rss/theworld_logo_wb.jpg http://www.theworld.org/node/17375 http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod30.mp3 Robert Chandler talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about a new translation of "The Foundation Pit, " a novel by Andrey Platonov, a Russian writer many critics consider the most provocative literary discovery since the fall of the Soviet Union. Poet Joseph Brodsky hailed Platonov as a master of language, a 20th century innovator in the same league as James Joyce and Franz Kafka. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod30.mp3 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT 27:30 Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod28.mp3 Award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky talks to World Books Editor Bill Marx about "The Tanners," an early work of fiction by the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a marginalized genius admired by J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and W. G. Sebald. She also reads an excerpt from her translation, the first in English, of the 1907 novel. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod28.mp3 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT 38:55 Susan Bernofsky, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and W. G. Sebald, Robert Walser, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod27.mp3 Israeli artist David Polonsky talks to World Books Editor Bill Marx about the full-color graphic novel version of the Oscar-nominated animated documentary "Waltz with Bashir." http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod27.mp3 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT 17:48 David Polonsky, Waltz with Bashir, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod26.mp3 Musicians Aliana de la Guardia and Gabriela Diaz perform samples from György Kurtág's chamber work "Kafka Fragments" and talk about the demanding piece to World Books editor Bill Marx. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod26.mp3 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT 33:54 Aliana de la Guardia, Gabriela Diaz, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod25.mp3 John Donatich, Director of the Yale University Press, talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about The Margellos World Republic of Letters, a major new series dedicated to helping reverse the trend against literary translations by making high quality works from around the globe available in English. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod25.mp3 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT 24:54 John Donatich, Margellos World Republic of Letters, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod24.mp3 Azar Nafisi, the author of the international bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran," talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about her new memoir, which focuses on her life in Iran as well as her personal and political responses to the Islamic Revolution during the late 1970s. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod24.mp3 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT 27:55 Azar Nafisi, Bill Marx, world Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod23.mp3 Author and book critic Helen Epstein talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about two new memoirs by émigrés living in North America, Witold Rybczynski's "My Two Polish Grandfathers" and Azar Nafisi's "Things I've Been Silent About." http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod23.mp3 Mon, 22 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT 28:41 Helen Epstein, Bill Marx, Romania, Stalinism, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod22.mp3 Romanian-born essayist and novelist Norman Manea explains to World Books editor Bill Marx why the young people in Eastern Europe's post-communist generation lack curiosity about what their parents and grandparents endured under Stalinism. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod22.mp3 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT 22:54 Norman Manea, Bill Marx, Romania, Stalinism, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod21.mp3 John Zeisel, the author of "I'm Still Here," along with Lisa Wong and Jonathan McPhee of Boston's Longwood Symphony Orchestra, talk to World Books host Bill Marx about evolving international views of the relationship between neuroscience and the arts, particularly the beneficial effects of music on those suffering from cognitive impairments. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod21.mp3 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT 37:57 John Zeisel, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod20.mp3 Award-winning novelist Ha Jin talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about his latest book, a collection of essays that explore how imaginative writers have dealt with migration. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod20.mp3 Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT 19:15 Ha Jin, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod19.mp3 Polish critic Igor Stokfiszewski and Russian scholar Boris Groys talk to World Books Editor Bill Marx about how the possibility of a new "Cold War" and the pressures of globalization are influencing the arts in Eastern Europe. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod19.mp3 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMT 26:11 Igor Stokfiszewski, Boris Groys, cold war, globalization, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod18.mp3 World Books Editor Bill Marx talks to translator Peter Filkins, who walked into a Harvard Square bookstore, opened an obscure German novel, and discovered H. G. Adler's "The Journey," a masterpiece of Holocaust fiction. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod18.mp3 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMT 26:11 Peter Filkins, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod17.mp3 Award-winning translator and poet David Hinton chats with World Books editor Bill Marx about "Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology," which sheds new light on the first three millennia of verse in China. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod17.mp3 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT 26:11 David Hinton, China, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod16.mp3 Ellen Elias-Bursac tells World Books editor Bill Marx what it is like to translate into English the work of two superb writers from the former Yugoslavia -- David Albahari and Dubravka Ugresic. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod16.mp3 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT 21:14 Ellen Elias-Bursac, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod15.mp3 Novelist and critic Dubravka Ugresic talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about her latest collection of essays, "Nobody's Home," which trains a wryly spiky eye to a number of subjects, from the plight of public intellectuals to the fluid nature of cultural identity in the age of globalization. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod15.mp3 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT 27:48 Dubravka Ugresic, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod14.mp3 Irish playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry chats with World Books editor Bill Marx about his novel "The Secret Scripture," a finalist for this year's Mann Booker Prize. The book continues Barry's quest in his fiction to explore the forgotten political nooks and theological crannies of modern Irish history. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod14.mp3 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT 18:23 Sebastian Barry, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod13.mp3 Angolian author Jose Eduardo Agualusa talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about "The Book of Chameleons," his acclaimed novel which won the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The wrily surreal tale, narrated by a gecko who claims to be the reincarnation of Jorge Luis Borges, explores issues of truth, illusion, and shifting identity in post-civil war Angola. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod13.mp3 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT 18:23 Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Jorge Luis Borges, Bill Marx, World Books, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod12.mp3 Porochista Khakpour's first novel, "Sons and Other Flammable Objects," garnered enthusiastic reviews for its tragi-comic treatment of the trails and tribulations of an Iranian-American family. She talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about what it is lilke to be compared to "a young Philip Roth." http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod12.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT 25:34 Bill Marx, Porochista Khakpour, Iran, World Books, sons, flammable objects, literature, Lisa Mullins, PRI, public radio international, writers http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod11.mp3 South African writer, painter, and political activist Breyten Breytenbach talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about what his new book, "All One Horse." says about his schizophrenic creative career. Breytenbach also reads a selection from the volume. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod11.mp3 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:00:00 GMT 33:31 Bill Marx, Breytenbach, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, South Africa, , Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod10.mp3 Hillel Halkin talks to World Books editor Bill Marx about his new translation of "To This Day," the final novel by S. Y. Agnon, the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod10.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:00:00 GMT 22:51 Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod9.mp3 Georgian writer Zurab Karumidze talks with World Books editor Bill Marx about the impact of the Russian occupation and its aftermath on literary culture. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod9.mp3 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:00:00 GMT 22:51 Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod8.mp3 A leading Russian translator, Marian Schwartz talks with Bill Marx about making the "first complete and accurate translation" of "White Guard," Mikhail Bulgakov's first novel. An epic story of the Russian civil war, the book anticipates Bulgakov's masterpiece,"The Master and Margarita." http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod8.mp3 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT 22:51 Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod7.mp3 World Books honcho Bill Marx chats with Professor Shakir Mustafa, who has edited an anthology -- the first of its kind in the West -- of contemporary Iraqi fiction in translation. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod7.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT 22:51 Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod6.mp3 On this week's podcast, Bill Marx talks to David Dollenmayer, whose translation of "Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment" won this year's Wolff Prize for Translation. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod6.mp3 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT 22:52 Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod5.mp3 On this week's podcast, Bill Marx talks to Chad Post, one of the movers and shakers behind Reading the World, an annual collaboration between publishers and independent booksellers whose aim is to spread the word about the value of international literature. Post is also the Director of Open Letter, a press dedicated to publishing significant books in translation and the honcho behind the blog Three Percent. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod5.mp3 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT 16:10 Reading the World, Chad Post, Bill Marx, Director of Open Letter, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod4.mp3 On this week's podcast, Bill Marx talks to Thant Myint-U, the author of "The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma," and discusses why understanding Burma's past is crucial for the country's future. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod4.mp3 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT 16:10 Thant Myint-U, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod3.mp3 World Books editor Bill Marx chats with Lebanese novelist, critic, and journalist Elias Khoury about the value of fiction, Middle East politics, and his new novel, "Yalo." http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod3.mp3 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT 16:10 Elias Khoury, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod2.mp3 The World's Bill Marx talks to best-selling Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret about "The Girl on the Fringe," his latest collection of surreal tales. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod2.mp3 Tue, 27 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT 8:20 Etgar Keret, The Girl on the Fringe, World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod1.mp3 The World's Bill Marx talks to Cindy Carter and Brenden O' Kane, two of the founders of Paper Republic.org, an exciting website dedicated to English translations of Chinese literature. http://64.71.145.108/pod/worldbooks/wbpod1.mp3 Tue, 20 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT 8:20 World Books, Literature, Chinese, China, Paper Republic, Lisa Mullins, pri, public radio, music, international music, pop, global hit