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CHIP KIDD
Chip Kidd,
who has been described as the world’s most famous book cover
designer, has worked at Knopf for over 20 years. Now a
novelist too, he talks about his two books The Cheese
Monkeys and The Learners. In this conversation
with New Letters on the Air’s Dennis Conrow, Kidd
explains how to see with a designer’s eye, and talks about
the challenging transition from working with pictures to
working with words.
WEB EXTRA: Use the
navigation below to hear Chip Kidd read more from The
Cheese Monkeys and The Learners. Click here
to find out more about the
Milgram Experiment.
Sophie Gee
always wanted to be a writer. While in high school, she won
a prestigious magazine award in her native Australia, but
postponed her desire to write to pursue a career as an
eighteenth century scholar. Now, she's combined the two
with her first novel, The Scandal of the Season,
which is about the poet Alexander Pope and the inspiration
for his famous poem "The Rape of the Lock."
WEB EXTRA: Hear
Sophie Gee discuss the influence of Tom Stoppard on her
work.
Young adult
writer M. T. Anderson, author of
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, talks
about his immersion into 18th century literature in
preparation for writing this National Book Award-winning
novel. Anderson also discusses
the importance of language, and how it shapes our reality,
as well as the need for books written exclusively for
teenagers, and how that is distinguished from writing for
adults.
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New Letters on the Air,
hosted by Angela Elam, is the half-hour radio companion
to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. Past guests include U.S. Poet Laureates Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize winning
playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony
Kushner and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, Richard
Russo. The program, which also features emerging
writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative
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Angela Elam,
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THE STORY OF NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR
New Letterson the Air celebrates its 30th
year as one of the nation's leading audio-literature
collectors and broadcasters. David and Judy Ray
began New Letterson the Air in 1977 as the radio companion to the
distinguished literary quarterly New Letters.
Rebekah Presson Mosby worked as a producer and then host
from 1982 until 1995. Now, producer/host Angela
Elam continues the tradition with New Letters
editor Robert Stewart
and other members of the New
Letters staff. New Letters on the Air
is not only a weekly program broadcast over many public
radio stations, but is also one of the largest and best
collections of recordings of contemporary authors, both
from the United States and around the world.
Many of these important
writers—Allen Ginsberg, Jane Kenyon, Howard Nemerov,
Michael Dorris, James Dickey, John Gardner, Gwendolyn
Brooks—have now passed from the literary scene. Many
are Nobel laureates, winners of Pulitzer Prizes or
National Book Awards. Most programs from our
extensive archives are offered for sale on audiocassette
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,
who has been described as the world’s most famous book cover
designer, has worked at Knopf for over 20 years. Now a
novelist too, he talks about his two books The Cheese
Monkeys and The Learners. In this conversation
with New Letters on the Air’s Dennis Conrow, Kidd
explains how to see with a designer’s eye, and talks about
the challenging transition from working with pictures to
working with words.
