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Still LookingArt in America
John Updike is known for his novels, but his real passion is American art. He thinks America speaks through its artists. Plus: how California won the battle between California wines and French wines. Later, novelist Mackenzie Bezos and filmmaker Norman Jewison.
Updike on Art
John Updike writes about art as a novelist, not as an art critic. His new collection about American art is called Still Looking.
Tastes Good
You might have a California wine on your Thanksgiving table, but 30 years ago no serious oenophile would be caught dead drinking California wine. George Taber writes about the rise of California's wine industry in his new book Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine.
Cracks
Mackenzie Bezos's debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, is about a civil engineer with passion for household construction and repair. When an earthquake rattles his home's foundation, some deep cracks in his own life are exposed too.
This interview is a rebroadcast. Original air date on the Leonard Lopate Show: 9/21/05
No Biz Like Show Biz
Hollywood is a dog-eat-dog world, but filmmaker Norman Jewison has managed to make it work for him. His films include Fiddler on the Roof, In the Heat of the Night, and Moonstruck. His new memoir is This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me.
This interview is a rebroadcast. Original airdate on the Leonard Lopate Show: 9/21/05
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