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Nam Le is the author of The Boat. Condition of the Show: Attempting to find classification within the media industrial complex. Author: Nam Le Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Le: First of all, I think that place names are I mean, you d be a fool not to use them in many regards. Because they re such charged and resonant words. Because they carry the connotation of all of the expectations and assumptions, and all of the misconceptions, as well as all of the history and culture of the place. So a word like Cartagena has such layers and meaning, and also has references to for example, to be wanky again, Carthage. But there are elements that are simply embedded into a name like that. And with Hiroshima, for example, I mean, geez, can you think of a word or a place name that is more loaded? Correspondent: Auschwitz maybe. Le: Exactly. Correspondent: I m waiting for that story from you. Le: (laughs) You know what I mean? I mean, that was a particularly calculated title. [Podpress is currently incompatible with WordPress 2.6. So until Podpress gets its act together, you can listen to the MP3 below.] BSS #222: Nam Le

1) "The Boat" is a debut collection of stories by Vietnamese-born and Australia-raised author Nam Le; 2) Salman Rushdie blurs imagination and historical reality in "The Enchantress of Florence; 3) An Indiana law with some unintended consequences for the state's bookstores; 4) On the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth, Sebastian Faulks continues the James Bond series with "Devil May Care"

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1) Harry Potter in the courtroom - the author of an encyclopedia of the characters and events from the novels of J.K. Rowling faces a copyright battle; 2) In "Bad Money" Kevin Phillips warns that the enormous influence of the credit industry threatens the U.S. economy; 3) Richard Price discusses the "Lush Life" of the Lower East Side of New York on the Bryant Park Project.