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Hemingway's Fictional Memoir Should Have Remained Unpublished.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Ernest Hemingway's novel "True at First Light."

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Other segments from the episode on July 13, 1999

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 13, 1999: Interview with Pat Barker; Interview with Leo Marks; Review of Ernest Hemingway's novel "True at First Light."
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Novelist Pat Barker.

British writer Pat Barker is best known for her "Regeneration" trilogy set in the shadows of WWI. In 1995,
she received the Booker Prize for its concluding novel, The Ghost Road. She has written the new novel "Another World." (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Pat Barker grew up poor in the industrial North, once remarking that her decision to write about war was a deliberate response to patronizing reviews of her working-class settings in her earlier novels.

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Leo Marks Shares His Experiences as a Codemaker in World War II.

Leo Marks served as one of Britain's top code makers during WWII. There he revolutionized the military's code making methods. He's written about his experiences in "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945. (Free Press) Marks is also a screenwriter. His most famous film is the 1960's cult-classic "Peeping Tom."

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Director Mark Rappaport.

Independent film director, writer and editor Mark Rappaport. His newest film is "From the Journals of Jean Seberg," about the actress Jean Seberg. The movie is a "fictitious autobiography" and places Seberg's life and work in a political context of the 1960s. Seberg's life ended in a tragic suicide. She grew up in Iowa, was best known for her role in Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless," and Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan." In the 60s she got involved with the Black Panthers.

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William Boyd's "New Confessions."

Scottish writer William Boyd. His latest novel, The New Confessions, follows the political and cinematic adventures of a monomaniacal filmmaker. Boyd's earlier novels include Stars and Bars and An Ice Cream War.

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A humorist faces life with Stage 4 lung cancer: 'The future disappeared for me'

Terry Gross interviews humorist, memoirist and actress ANNABELLE GURWITCH about her new memoir called The End of My Life is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker. It is a national bestseller.

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