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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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George Saunders

Open Book: George Saunders, Kathleen Collins

19/03/2017

George Saunders, Kathleen Collins

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, George Saunders, Kathleen Collins

Mariella Frostrup talks to George Saunders about his long-awaited first novel.

Mariella Frostrup talks to the American poet and essayist George Saunders about his long-awaited first novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

George Saunders' Lincoln In The Bardo is one of the most anticipated and acclaimed novels of this year, so far. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about creating his extraordinary bardo - a transitional space between life and death - where a chorus of spirits watch President Abraham Lincoln grieve for his young son. 

Also on the programme, a glimpse into a publisher's archive;, the frank, funny, fearless short stories of Kathleen Collins and why authors can never chose a favourite novel.

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