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Friday March 11, 2005

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10:00News Roundup

A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week’s top national and international news stories.

Guests

Jeanne Cummings, reporter, "The Politico"

Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for "USA Today"

Martin Walker, United Press International

11:00Marilynne Robinson: "Gilead" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Twenty-four years have passed since her first critically acclaimed novel. Marilynne Robinson presents her long-awaited second novel about an aging minister reflecting on his abolitionist ancestors, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

Guests

Marilynne Robinson, teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winning novel, "Housekeeping," and two books of nonfiction, "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."

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