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Book Critic and Memoirist Doris Grumbach

In celebration of her 80th birthday, we play excerpts from two of our interviews with the writer Doris Grumbach. She's the author of the memoirs "The Presence of Absence" and "Fifty Days of Solitude."

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Other segments from the episode on July 10, 1998

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 10, 1998: Interview with Don DeLillo; Interview with Doris Grumbach; Review of the film "Out of Sight."
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Don DeLillo Explores America's "Underworld"

Author Don DeLillo on his new novel "Underworld." (Scribner) It's now out in paperback. This 827-page work weaves in and out of the latter half of this century, incorporating modern icons such as Frank Sinatra, Lenny Bruce, and J. Edgar Hoover. The novel's first scene visits the Giant-Dodgers pennant game of October 3rd, 1951 -- also the date of the first nuclear test in the Soviet Union. DeLillo is also the author of such novels as "White Noise," "End Zone," and "Great Jones Street." (Rebroadcast from 10/2/1997)

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Author Doris Grumbach on Filling the Silences of "Solitude"

Grumbach has written a second memoir, which picks up where her first, "Coming into the End Zone," left off. "Fifty Days of Solitude" chronicles her life in Maine, her travels, and coming to terms with mortality. Grumbach is a book reviewer for National Public Radio, and was literary editor for "The New Republic.

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Writer and Critic Doris Grumbach on Turning 70.

Writer and critic Doris Grumbach. In her new memoir, "Coming Into The End Zone," Grumbach chronicles the 70th year of her life, faces the specter of her impending death, as well of the deaths of several of her friends due to AIDS. (It's published by Norton).

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