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by Don DeLillo
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In this somewhat unsettling documentary, author Don DeLillo takes viewers into the world of the image showing footage of assassinations and terrorism alongside other random images from TV and film.
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by Richard Bach
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The tale that sent Bach soaring to fame tells the story of a seagull who practices for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness and love.
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by Isaac Asimov
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The opening episode begins on Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire, with the meeting of Seldon and Dornick, their trial, and their exile to Terminus.
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by Ray Bradbury
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Renowned science fiction author Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles) gives aspiring writers some encouraging insight in this short lecture provided on streaming video by UCTV.
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by John Kennedy Toole
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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.... The revoltingly intriguing...
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by Don Swaim
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Wired for Books is offering a page full of downloadable MP3 interviews with many of the best authors in contemporary literature. Compiled from the 1980s CBS Radio show, Book Beat, these interviews feature journalist Don Swaim spending roughly a half hour with the author discussing their books.
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by Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg's Howl is the ultimate beat poem, and what better way to experience it than listening to Ginsberg read it himself. PennSound features two recordings of Ginsberg reading Howl, one from 1956 (the year he published it) and one from 1995 (a few years before his death).
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by Amy Hungerford
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In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present.
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by Tom Wolfe
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In this three-hour long streaming video from C-SPAN's BookTV, Tom Wolfe talks about his career as writer from "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" which he wrote back in the 1960s all the way up to his latest novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons".
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Famous recluse J.D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm.
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