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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
John D'Agata 
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About a Mountain (Norton)
In a culture whose major activities include consumption and the production of waste, John D'Agata ponders the adjacency of Las Vegas and...
Elif Batuman
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Elif Batuman never intended to study literature, learn Russian,or learn...
John Ashbery
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Planisphere (Ecco)
John Ashbery has made a dumbfounding statement: he is afraid that sometimes "the language gets in the way of the music of a poem." ...
Adam Haslett
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Union Atlantic (Doubleday)While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the...
Joshua Ferris
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The Unnamed (Little, Brown)
Josh Ferris, who won a huge audience with his hilarious office novel, Then We Came to the End, has done an about-face...
Barbara Epler
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New Directions, the press that began by publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Tennessee Williams and which today gives us Roberto Bolaño, W. G....
John McPhee
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Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)John McPhee, our nation’s premier essayist—the man who helped raise creative non-fiction to an art form—speaks about the intricacy of...
Patti Smith, Part II
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Just Kids (Ecco)
In the second of this two-part interview we hear about Patti Smith as a bookworm. You probably know about her love for Rimbaud,...
Patti Smith, Part I
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Just Kids (Ecco)
Poverty and insanity are terrible things—but then there is bohemian poverty and insanity, and these are infused with the romance of becoming an...
Javier Marias, Part II
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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)Our conversation with Javier Marías continues. What if ten minutes of espionage took a hundred...
Javier Marias, Part I
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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)What if Henry James — the patron saint of convolution — could be resurrected? What...
Rita Dove
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Sonata Mulattica (Norton)
Beethoven once dedicated a sonata to a half-African musician—then revoked the dedication. Why? In her book-length poem, Rita Dove attempts an imaginative historical...
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
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The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams ComicArts)
TOON Books and Raw Books co-editors Spiegelman and Mouly tunneled through archives and private collections to create...
Jonathan Lethem
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Chronic City (Doubleday)
Jonathan Lethem began his career with Philip K. Dick-inspired science fiction, then he turned to writing the more realistic books that brought him...
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part II
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Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)
When Flats and Quake were published, the sixties were ending, and these novels can be said...
