Jane Smiley

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Your Favorite Re-Read Books!

Thursday, January 28, 2016

A book read more than once is a good book indeed. Phillip Lopate and Jane Smiley talk about some of their favorites, and we'll hear from you!

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A Farm Family Scatters in Jane Smiley's Early Warning

Monday, June 01, 2015

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley talks about the second installment of her best-selling American trilogy, Early Warning.

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Jane Smiley's New Novel, Some Luck

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Thirty years in the life of an Iowa family, from the 1930s through the 1950s.

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Underappreciated: Egil’s Saga

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

For this week’s Underappreciated segment, novelist Jane Smiley discusses the anonymously authored Egil’s Saga, an Icelandic saga dating back to 1240 AD, which follows the family history of Egil Skallagrímsson, a skaldic poet with a hot temper. Predating Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales by almost a century, the saga is part of the rich Viking literary tradition often overlooked by American readers. Jane Smiley wrote the preface of Sagas of Iceland.

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'The Man Who Invented The Computer'

Thursday, December 23, 2010

In her new book, "The Man Who Invented the Computer," Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley introduces us to John Vincent Atanasoff, a physicist and mathematician who, in 1937, invented much of what we know as the modern-day computer. His creation became known as the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, also known as ABC: an invention largely overshadowed by other technological and engineering advancements. 

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Private Life

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Pulitzer Prize–winner Jane Smiley discusses her latest novel.

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Jane Smiley

Friday, September 07, 2007

Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, sets her book Ten Days in the Hills in a fancy home high above Los Angeles. Sex, Hollywood, and soap opera-like personal drama give the novel a frenzied energy. And Smiley tells Kurt Andersen why she gave the book the ...

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Jane Smiley

Friday, February 23, 2007

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley sets her latest novel, Ten Days in the Hills in a fancy home high above Los Angeles. Sex, Hollywood, and soap opera-like personal drama give the novel a frenzied energy. But there's another element the author adds into the mix. Kurt ...

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