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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Vladimir Nabokov’s last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how it alters our view of Lolita’s creator.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo on his new novel of midlife crackup and the search for happiness: “That Old Cape Magic.”

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Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Master storyteller Pat Conroy talks about his first novel in 14 years, “South of Broad,” and much more.

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Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

Brand new Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout on small-town Maine and her prize-winning novel, “Olive Kitteridge.”

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 11:00 am

Novelist T.C. Boyle on his new work, “The Women,” and the tempestuous love life of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 11:36 am

Excerpt from Driftless by David Rhodes.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

After 30 years’ silence, David Rhodes is back with small-town life and a cougar in the hay mow in his new book, “Driftless.”

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 11:00 am

Powerful Nigerian-born writer Uwem Akpan sees Africa through the eyes of its children — slavery, slums, and all.

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Friday, September 21, 2007 at 11:00 am

What is it about vampires? Halloween is still five weeks away, and already the fake fangy teeth are in the drug store aisles, along with the little kits for applying trickles of blood.
Some ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages cannot seem to get enough of the neck-nuzzling, blood-sucking world of Dracula. Book publishers [...]

 
On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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