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Jan.04.2011
Salman Rushdie is an author that most people know in one way or another. He is the winner of the Booker Prize (what has been called the British equivalent of the Pulitzer), he has been appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II, and has had a fatwā issued...
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Nov.15.2010
Photo by Kyle Cassidy
Brandon Sanderson is the bestselling author of the Mistborn trilogy and will be soon starting work on the final book of the Wheel of Time series, after completing The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight. Two years ago -- almost to the day -- I had my...
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Sep.08.2010
a new episode of BookBanter featuring a selection of book reviews, including some "From the Vault" and kid's choices. "Coyote" by Allen Steele, "Reckless" by Andrew Gross, "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez, "Deep Fathom" by James Rollins, "Black Hills" by Dan Simmons, "Abarat" by Clive Barker, and "...
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Aug.02.2010
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(L-R) Alex C. Telander of BookBanter, Justin Cronin and Kaye Cloutman of San Francisco and Sacramento Book Reviews (Photo by Kaye Cloutman)
This is the first of hopefully many co-interviews for BookBanter, with Kaye Cloutman of the...
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Jun.22.2010
Cory Doctorow keeps himself busy with his nonstop writing and publishing of books, his many blog postings, the work he does for Boing Boing, as well as raising a child. He is the author of a number of books including Little Brother and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. His latest...
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May.15.2010
Katharine Beutner's first novel, Alcestis, is set in Mycenaean Greece. Alcestis is a princess from Greek mythology, made popular in the Euripides play of the same name. Alcestis sacrifices herself in place of her husband and is taken to Hades, where she is soon rescued. Beutner gives the reader...
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Apr.01.2010
At a recent book signing for The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade, I had the chance to sit down and chat with the incredible minds behind one of the most popular webcomics of our time: Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Jerry and Mike talk about what an average day for them is like, who else...
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Mar.14.2010
On January 23rd I was given the opportunity to interview Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the award-winning Mars trilogy, as well as other bestselling books such as The Year of Rice and Salt and Forty Signs of Rain, in person at the Avid Reader Bookstore, in the city of Davis where...
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Mar.01.2010
This episode features my interview with Seth Grahame-Smith, who is the author of the original mash-novel that swept the world by storm, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is now being turned into a movie, as well as a graphic novel, and there's even a prequel coming out soon. But most of our...
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Feb.15.2010
In this new episode of Bookbanter, I had the chance to interview David Grann. Grann is a staff writer for the New Yorker and last year published his first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, about one of the world's last explorers, Percy Fawcett, and his...
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