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Radio interview with phone in. Illinois Public Radio.

In The Sublime Engine on February 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm

Wednesday, February 08, 2012, 11:06  AM (CST) to 12 noon.

WILL-AM 580

Focus: Interviews on global affairs and daily life.

Illinois Public Radio  Interview with phone-in.

Hosted by David Inge

The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart

Stephen Amidon, Novelist, Essayist, Critic

Thomas Amidon, M.D., Cardiologist in Kalispell, Montana

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The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar. The Guardian, 27 January, 2012

In Criticism on January 28, 2012 at 1:47 am

The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar.

A novel about American racial tensions.

Set in contemporary southern California, Héctor Tobar’s second novel energetically

explores America’s hidden seam of racial discord; here modest incidents can develop

into controversy in a matter of hours. The story opens quietly,

with a detailed portrait of the suburban

Torres-Thompson family in decline…

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