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Favorite Books with Susan Stamberg
June, 2001 -- As the summer reading season begins, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with authors about the books they most prize. Every week in June, we heard Stamberg's author interviews on Morning Edition. Read the transcript of Susan's live chat about summer books from June 27.
Interviews in this series:
June 5, Barry Lopez
June 12, Francesca Lia Block
June 20, Paule Marshall
June 26, Walter Mosley
Author Barry Lopez |
On June 5, Stamberg spoke with Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and the recent Light Action in the Caribbean. Lopez' favorite book is Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick. He's such a fan that on trips around the world, he buys it over and over, in different editions and translations.
 Hear Lopez read excerpts from Moby Dick.
Listen to the Stamberg-Lopez interview.
Francesca Lia Block
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On June 12, Stamberg spoke with Francesca Lia Block, whose "magic-realist" works include the popular Weetzie Bat series and The Rose and the Beast. Block's favorite book is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It has, she contends, arguably "the best first line" of any novel ever written.
Hear Block read excerpts from One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Hear the Stamberg-Block interview.
Author Paule Marshall
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On June 20, Stamberg talks with Paule Marshall, author of six books including Brown Girls, Brownstones and The Fisher King. Marshall's favorite book: Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Hear Marshall read an excerpt.
Hear the Stamberg-Marshall interview.
Author Walter Mosley
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On June 26, Stamberg's guest is Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series and, new this month, the novel Fearless Jones. Mosley tells us what he loves to read: poetry by T.S. Eliot.
Hear Mosley read an excerpt.
Hear the Stamberg-Mosley interview.
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