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Bookclub Clips

1. Sarah Moss answers listener questions about her novel The Tidal Zone.

   Duration: 27:45

2. Bookclub on the Today Programme

   Duration: 05:21

3. The crucial moment in Ann Patchett's novel readers always miss

   Duration: 01:21

4. How the fear of penury underpins the drama of seminal Irish novel The Butcher Boy

   Duration: 02:08

5. 鈥淚鈥檓 always interested in people who are a little bit from here, a little bit from there"

   Duration: 02:44

6. Hari Kunzru: "Alien of Extraordinary Ability"

   Duration: 01:52

7. How to invent a convincing superhero, with Michael Chabon

   Duration: 02:03

8. "No one would expect a British writer to explain birdwatching to an Indian audience"

   Duration: 02:27

9. The real life explosion that inspired the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

   Duration: 01:55

10. Jay McInerney: New York isn't bohemian any more

    Duration: 02:22

11. Louise Welsh reads from Kidnapped

    Duration: 01:49

12. "They're like the avian equivalent of Christopher Walken."

    Duration: 02:21

13. Don DeLillo on teaching his characters to 'speak Bronx'

    Duration: 02:30

14. 鈥淎fter the noise and the fire of war, the real work begins with the voice in your head鈥�

    Duration: 00:45

15. "These are men with huge secrets"

    Duration: 02:53

16. Locked up for being different - the plight of women in 1930s Britain and Ireland

    Duration: 03:03

17. No other way to leave their mark?

    Duration: 01:23

18. "We'll occupy your lousy leasehold poetry!"

    Duration: 01:40

19. Javier Marias on his 鈥榮uicidal method鈥� for writing novels

    Duration: 03:22

20. People love Olive because she does things they daren't

    Duration: 01:55

21. "Gordon Craig fathered 13 children by eight women in three or four countries..."

    Duration: 03:02

22. Kamila Shamsie on the kindness of other authors

    Duration: 02:35

23. "Evil didn't begin with the first beating or bullet, it began in the generation before."

    Duration: 04:30

24. "My heart was thumping..." Colum McCann on the art of fictionalising real living people, and how they react.

    Duration: 01:19