March 9, 2007 - The male vocal ensemble Cantus and poet Robert Bly collaborate on a new series of poems set to music.
October 23, 2006 - Author Edna O'Brien left Ireland years ago, as a young woman but her first novel about two girls trying to escape life in the convent made her notorious in her homeland. Tonight O'Brien appears at the Fitzgerald Theater for Talking Volumes to discuss her long career and her newest book: "The Light of Evening" a story that reveals how unresolved her feelings still are about how and where she grew up.
September 29, 2006 - Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller and author David Treuer discuss his latest book, "The Translation of Dr. Apelles." David Treuer's sly and heart-pounding novel, "The Translation of Dr. Apelles", tells a story within a story: A reclusive translator of ancient American Indian texts stumbles across a love story that upends his workaday world and triggers his own need for love. "Imagine Longfellow's 'The Song of Hiawatha' written by Nabokov, " says Edmund White. Treuer also is the author of "Native American Fiction" and two other novels.
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October 24, 2005 - Midmorning host Kerri Miller talks with author Joan Didion about grieving and memory. Joan Didion, author of "The Year of Magical Thinking." Didion has written five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.
January 27, 2005 - Talking Volumes with author Tobias Wolf. Kerri Miller, host of Midmorning, for a conversation with author Tobias Wolff. They will discuss Wolff's new novel, "Old School." It tells the story a boy at an elite prep school in 1960, exploring deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. A teacher at Stanford University, Wolff has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
January 19, 2005 - Author Tobias Wolff will open the second-half of the Talking Volumes season later this month. You may remember his memoir, This Boy's Life, which was made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Now Wolff is out with his first novel, "Old School." He says the story gave him the "ideal lens" through which to write about themes like class and ambition and ethics.