Bookbabble Episode 30: One Hit Wonders

Mar 31, 2009 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 30: One Hit Wonders

Recorded 29 March 2009

Babblers: Gem, Renee, Donny

Synopsis:
The babblers discuss authors who have produced only one book, or one good book that defines the author’s entire career.  Discussion revolves around primary causes of this phenomenon, the stories behind the authors.  Somehow Daleks are involved too.

Authors mentioned in show:

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
• Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Pomp and Circumstance, Noel Coward
• Complete Stories, Dorothy Parker
• Recovery, John Berryman

Links:

• 10 Literary one-hit wonders
• Audrey Niffenegger Receives Huge Advance For Second Novel
• Celebrity Deathmatch

 

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