John Irving

Writer

John Irving appears in the following:

Travelling Through the Philippines and Mexico with John Irving

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

John Irving discusses his latest novel, Avenue of Mysteries.

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John Irving: In One Person

Friday, May 11, 2012

John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, talks about his newest novel, In One Person.

EVENT: Irving will read from In One Person at the 92nd St. Y on May 13, 2012 at 8pm. More information here.  

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John Irving on New England, Sexuality, and 'In One Person'

Thursday, May 10, 2012

In 1978, author John Irving rocketed to stardom with a sweeping, complex novel called "The World According to Garp." It featured several characters unfamiliar to most Americans, inclu...

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John Irving

Friday, July 30, 2010

When the author John Irving was still a young man, his father disappeared. Irving tells Kurt that absence has informed his fiction ever since: inventing fathers through all his novels. Kurt talked to Irving in 2005 when he'd just published Until I Find You. ...

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Author John Irving on Fear and Happiness

Thursday, November 05, 2009

John Irving, the writer famous for such well-loved and critically acclaimed books as "The World According to Garp" and "The Cider House Rules," has just released a new novel: "Last Ni...

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Last Night in Twisted River

Thursday, October 29, 2009

John Irving discusses his twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River. It tells the story of an anxious twelve-year-old boy on the run with his father.

Event: John Irving will be reading and answering questions
Thursday, October 29, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East ...

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Special Guest: John Irving

Saturday, July 16, 2005

John Irving is the author of 11 books, including The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, for which he also wrote the screenplay.

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John Irving Continued

Saturday, July 16, 2005

John Irving talks about church organs, the film of Cider House Rules, writers he does and doesn’t admire, and why he rewrote his new novel after he gave it to the publisher.

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John Irving

Saturday, July 16, 2005

John Irving talks about Captain Cook, the history of tattooing, and where to put your favorite sentence when you're writing a novel. He reads from Until I Find You, and explains how not knowing his biological father shaped his life as a writer.

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Irving, Meshell, Freedom Tower

Saturday, July 16, 2005

This week, one of America’s great writers joins Kurt Andersen in Studio 360. John Irving’s new novel is called Until I Find You. It follows a boy, then a man, named Jack Burns as he searches the world for an absent father. Irving tells Kurt about his own missing father, ...

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