Books on the Air
National Public Radio provides excellent coverage of all things literary. Their new four-part series, “Crime in the City," features crime writers and the cities in which their fictional sleuths live and work. Donna Leon spoke today about Venice, where her Commissario Brunetti detective stories take place. Both a travelogue for armchair tourists and a discussion of the importance of setting in a genre novel, the NPR series is fun and informative. Next stop: John Burdett’s steamy, seamy Bangkok.
More book talk is available on C-SPAN2, which presents interviews with non-fiction authors every weekend on BookTV.