Books Ron Hansen Books by Ron Hansen Ron Hansen has written books about: Fiction Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email NPR stories about Ron Hansen Review Three Books... On The Move: Three Books To Keep Out Of The Boxes April 21, 2013 • Author Sloane Crosley is moving apartments — and, just as importantly, her library. Some books will come with her; others won't. But when she can't find the sheets or shampoo, these are the titles she'll want easy access to. Review Three Books... Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder October 19, 2011 • Why do gruesome stories draw us in? What is it about tales that chill us that we can't stay away from? Author Bruce Machart doesn't have the answers, but he does have three recommendations of books that explore the depths of human depravity. Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder Listen · 3:56 3:56 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/139002629/142001638" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript Review Book Reviews 'Guilty Passion' Leads A Housewife To Homicide Fresh Air June 13, 2011 • Ron Hansen's latest novel, A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, fictionalizes an infamous crime of sexual transgression. In 1927, Ruth Snyder killed her husband, Albert, after falling in love with a lingerie salesman. Hansen's sexy fictionalization of the real-life murder sizzles with the spirit of the Roaring '20s. 'Guilty Passion' Leads A Housewife To Homicide Listen · 6:13 6:13 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/137040033/137150165" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript Review Three Books... Three Books About Our Affair with Movies June 11, 2008 • For all the ways movies consume us, it's rare to find good, serious writing that analyzes our relationship to them. Anthony Giardina's three books do just that. Books For Novelist, Imagining is an Act of Prayer Fresh Air June 11, 2008 • Novelist Ron Hansen is best known for his tales of Western bandits and whiskey runners, but he claims his inspiration for these unsavory characters is divine. The author of Exiles discusses writing, faith and his status as a Catholic deacon in a secular literary world. For Novelist, Imagining is an Act of Prayer Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91356850/91380074" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Summer Books 2008: Excerpts Excerpt: 'Exiles' May 19, 2008 • Ron Hansen's ethereal novel tells the intertwined story of the Victorian poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins, and the sea tragedy that inspired Hopkins' famous poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland. Critics' Lists: Summer 2008 Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway Fresh Air May 19, 2008 • There are beach books full of sun and cotton candy and beach books dappled with shadow and sardonic humor. The very different beach books Maureen Corrigan recommends all have one thing in common: They carry a reader far beyond the familiar. Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90588540/90595352" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Review Three Books... On The Move: Three Books To Keep Out Of The Boxes April 21, 2013 • Author Sloane Crosley is moving apartments — and, just as importantly, her library. Some books will come with her; others won't. But when she can't find the sheets or shampoo, these are the titles she'll want easy access to.
Review Three Books... Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder October 19, 2011 • Why do gruesome stories draw us in? What is it about tales that chill us that we can't stay away from? Author Bruce Machart doesn't have the answers, but he does have three recommendations of books that explore the depths of human depravity. Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder Listen · 3:56 3:56 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/139002629/142001638" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Devil In The Details: 3 Artful Tales Of Murder Listen · 3:56 3:56 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/139002629/142001638" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Review Book Reviews 'Guilty Passion' Leads A Housewife To Homicide Fresh Air June 13, 2011 • Ron Hansen's latest novel, A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion, fictionalizes an infamous crime of sexual transgression. In 1927, Ruth Snyder killed her husband, Albert, after falling in love with a lingerie salesman. Hansen's sexy fictionalization of the real-life murder sizzles with the spirit of the Roaring '20s. 'Guilty Passion' Leads A Housewife To Homicide Listen · 6:13 6:13 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/137040033/137150165" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
'Guilty Passion' Leads A Housewife To Homicide Listen · 6:13 6:13 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/137040033/137150165" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Review Three Books... Three Books About Our Affair with Movies June 11, 2008 • For all the ways movies consume us, it's rare to find good, serious writing that analyzes our relationship to them. Anthony Giardina's three books do just that.
Books For Novelist, Imagining is an Act of Prayer Fresh Air June 11, 2008 • Novelist Ron Hansen is best known for his tales of Western bandits and whiskey runners, but he claims his inspiration for these unsavory characters is divine. The author of Exiles discusses writing, faith and his status as a Catholic deacon in a secular literary world. For Novelist, Imagining is an Act of Prayer Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91356850/91380074" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
For Novelist, Imagining is an Act of Prayer Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91356850/91380074" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Summer Books 2008: Excerpts Excerpt: 'Exiles' May 19, 2008 • Ron Hansen's ethereal novel tells the intertwined story of the Victorian poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins, and the sea tragedy that inspired Hopkins' famous poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland.
Critics' Lists: Summer 2008 Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway Fresh Air May 19, 2008 • There are beach books full of sun and cotton candy and beach books dappled with shadow and sardonic humor. The very different beach books Maureen Corrigan recommends all have one thing in common: They carry a reader far beyond the familiar. Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90588540/90595352" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90588540/90595352" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
