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|  | | | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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|  | | Cover of Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
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Do you have a problem that concerns books? If so, Open Book's Reading Clinic wants to hear from you.
For instance, do you have a partner who never reads and want some suggestions as to what might entice them in to the world of literature?
Are there some books or genres that you have never managed to get your head round and to which you'd like an introduction?
What book do you give to the person who has read everything?
Where do I start with Proust?
What book should I take on a long train journey?
How do you get teenage boys to read?
If you want a full and frank discussion of your particular literary conundrum, then Open Book's Reading Clinic can prescribe the right book for you.
Please contact Open Book here with your literary ailment, giving as many details as you can including a daytime contact number if possible.
This week's programme:
On Open Book this week Mariella Frostrup talks to Azar Nafisi about her new book Reading Lolita in Tehran, which charts her experience of running a reading group in Iran, solely for women. We look at the real life inspiration behind some of our best known literary heroes and heroines from Madame Bovary to James Bond - who were the real people that triggered their creators' imagination? Plus books that have changed lives from the Bible to Birdsong, and a Reading Clinic on Western novels.
List of Books:
Azar Nafisi’s book is Reading Lolita in Tehran (Fourth Estate)
A selection of books by Saul Bellow:
Humbolt's Gift (Penguin)
Seize the Day (Penguin)
The Adventure of Augie March (Penguin)
Ravelstein (Penguin)
More Die of Heartbreak (Bantam)
The Actual (Penguin)
Henderson the Rain King (Penguin)
Books in the Real Characters feature:
Madame Bovary by André Bernard (Penguin)
James Bond 007 novels by Ian Fleming (Penguin)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (Penguin)
William Maxwell novels:
So Long, See You Tomorrow (Harvill)
The Chateau (Harvill)
They Came Like Swallows (Harvill)
All The Days and Nights: The Collected Stories (Harvill)
Time Will Darken It (Harvill)
Life-Changing Book Nominations:
The Bible
The Women’s Room by Marilyn French (Virago)
Troubled Sleep (aka The Roads to Freedom)by Jean-Paul Sartre trans. Gerald Hopkins (Vintage)
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage)
Unless by Carol Shields (Fourth Estate)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig(Vintage)
Railway Man by Eric Lomax (Vintage)
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (HarperCollins)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Penguin)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Penguin)
Into That Darkness by Gitta Soreny (Pimlico)
Reading Clinic (Westerns):
The Life of Buffalo Bill by Willliam Cody (Barnes & Noble)
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (Penguin)
The Searchers by Alan Le May (Collins)
Woe To Live On by Daniel Woodrell (Pocket c/o Simon & Schuster)
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (Dover c/o David & Charles)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
Some novels by Larry McMurtry:
Zeke and Ned (Simon & Schuster)
Streets of Laredo (Pocket c/o Simon & Schuster)
Comanche Moon (Simon & Schuster)
In a Narrow Grave (Simon & Schuster)
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