Rabih Alameddine on his new novel An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel An Unnecessary Woman, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Rabih Alameddine's new novel An Unnecessary Woman was shortlisted for a National Book Award. One reviewer called it 'succulent fiction'. He talks to Mariella about his cantankerous heroine, her obsession with translation and why we all turn into our mothers.
Actor David Duchovny, perhaps best known as Fox Mulder in The X-Files, has written his first novel: Holy Cow. As well as discussing how he created his bovine narrator, he also reveals that a volume of William Blake's poetry is the Book He'd Never Lend.
And in our Reading Clinic critic and writer John Freeman suggests books for a listener who is off to Las Vegas to celebrate his birthday - a city, Freeman says, of 'second chances', so does its literature reflect that?
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Rabih Alameddine
Duration: 11:38
David Duchovny
Duration: 07:53
Las Vegas Reading Clinic
Duration: 08:11
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by Rabih Alameddine
Booklist
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Holy Cow by David Duchovny
Las Vegas Reading Clinic
Northline by Willy Vlautin
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America by Sally Denton and Roger Morris
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Role Contributor Presenter Mariella Frostrup Interviewed Guest Rabih Alameddine Interviewed Guest David Duchovny Interviewed Guest John Freeman Broadcasts
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