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January 01, 1990 - February 07, 2013 + Bookworm
Craig Nova: The Constant Heart 
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Craig Nova's fourteenth novel conveys readers into dark and discomforting realms of the unseen, where human organs are harvested for sale on the black market...
Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
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British novelist Martin Amis discusses how a writer makes a good character endearing when readers want to root for the villain in his new work.
Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
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Susanna Moore is interested in the things her characters don’t know. Her new novel is a story of innocence and dread.
Lawrence Norfolk: John Saturnall's Feast
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British writer, Lawrence Norfolk on his new novel of historical fiction and how his desire to write about love and need relates to his epicurean...
Robert Hass: What Light Can Do
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Former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass explores certain obsessions in his first collection of essays.
Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
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Our master of seductive street-slang on seduction and its relation to fiction. Can a writer seduce you? Junot Díaz describes what he calls "the shock...
Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue
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In his new novel, how did Michael Chabon dare to speak for black characters and black neighborhoods? Is this novel audacious and usurping? His answers...
Joshua Cohen: Four New Messages
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The prolific young writer talks about his new book, as well as Internet culture, language and fiction.
Neal Stephenson: Some Remarks
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Neal Stephenson, a sort of contemporary Dickens (from Seattle,) talks about essays and other writing; science fiction and mainstream literature.
Mary Ruefle: Madness, Rack, and Honey
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Mary Ruefle brings refreshment and beauty to basic instincts and, in the process, creating mystery, surprise and, well, yes, poetry.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Time of Useful Consciousness
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 93-year-old renowned Beat generation poet and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers, on his latest adventure, a dire warning for America.
John Irving: In One Person
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Academy Award-winner John Irving returns with a compelling novel, a tormented portrait of desire and secrecy.
Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be?
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Neo-feminist Sheila Heti on her novel and journal, a how-to book and a philosophical treatise. Heti wants to undo coherence and, in many ways, she...
Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins
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Walter on his much acclaimed new work, a completely pleasurable summer read -- and not your typical Hollywood novel.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango
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Bookworm Michael Silverblatt and co-interviewer Jim Krusoe talk with the Hungarian author and screenwriter about modernist novels and filmmaker Bela Tarr.
