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January 01, 1990 - January 03, 2013 + Bookworm

Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes listen Download

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The work of novelists Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes is characterized by complexity, beauty and sophistication. Guess what? They write comics!

Amy Gerstler listen Download

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Medicine (Penguin) Amy Gerstler regards her poetry as a sort of spell to ward off danger. Her new book deals with the tragedies that cannot...

Russell Banks: The Angel on the Roof listen Download

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The house of fiction has many rooms. Russell Banks talks about the life- choices that led him to occupy his particularly gritty sublet.

Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin listen Download

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While revealing her passion for storytelling, cunning Margaret Atwood carefully avoids the secret mechanisms of her engrossing new novel, "The Blind Assassin."

Mark Strand II listen Download

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Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More (Turtle Point) We defy you not to laugh when you hear these poems from the previously sepulchral laureate Mark Strand...

Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly listen Download

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Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)In this second interview about Little Lit, its creators, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, remind us that...

Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost listen Download

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The reticent Michael Ondaatje becomes more revealing. Here he goes so far as to formulate his artistic credo and even makes comments that truly...

Diane Johnson listen Download

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Le Marriage (Dutton) The bird-like flutings of Diane Johnson's amused voice animate this merry duet about France, comedy, depravity and marriage.

Sherman Alexie listen Download

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Sherman Alexie The Toughest Indian in the World (Grove Atlantic) Sherman Alexie is the cynical, irreverent Indian writer (he does not use the term...

Zadie Smith listen Download

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Zadie Smith White Teeth (Random House) Young Zadie Smith's dizzying comic take on multi-racial London. Her background, she says, was so mixed that P.G....

Mark Strand listen Download

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A Blizzard of One (Knopf) A brow-furrowing conversation with a former poet laureate Mark Strand...

Jane Smiley listen Download

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Horse Heaven (Knopf) At a gallop, Jane Smiley tells us everything she knows about horse breeding, horse racing, horse trading...

Francine Prose: Blue Angel listen Download

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Blue Angel pivots on a question of academic sexual harassment...

J.R. Salamanca listen Download

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J.R. Salamanca That Summer's Trance (Welcome Rain Press) Salamanca's first book in fourteen years, That Summer's Trance, a shimmering book about love, desire and betrayal,...

Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly listen Download

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Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)Author Art Spiegelman and editor Francoise Mouly introduce Little Lit, their new collection of comics by world-renowned...