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January 01, 1990 - January 20, 2013 + Bookworm
Jonathan Williams 
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Jubilant Thicket: new and selected poems (Copper Canyon)
Jonathan Williams alternates between playing the role of elder statesman and that of rambunctious old cuss....
Ian McEwan
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Saturday (Doubleday)
Ian McEwan's first book since his stunning Atonement, is one of the first novels written in response to 9/11 and worldwide threats of terrorism....
Roberto Calasso
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K. (Knopf) Roberto Calasso--scholar, publisher, polymath--delves into the works of Franz Kafka more deeply than anyone ever has. In this conversation, we explore the...
Gilbert Sorrentino
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In Lunar Follies (Coffee House), one of his genre-defying extravaganzas, Gilbert Sorrentino describes outlandish art shows, all of them taking place in galleries...
Steve Erickson
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Our Ecstatic Days (Simon & Schuster)
We explore the hallucinatory intensity of Steve Erickson's visionary novel born out of the anxiety provoked by the imagined...
Martha Kinney, Derek McCormack and Dennis Cooper
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The Fall of Heartless Horse by Martha Kinney (Akashic); Grab Bag by Derek McCormack (Akashic)
Two young writers and their editor tell about their new...
Camille Paglia
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon)
Firebrand Paglia devotes her energies to a vibrant demonstration of...
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
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Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)In the second part of our conversation, we explore the historical and social forces that shape Marilynne Robinson's narrator, John...
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
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Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)The loveliness of life, life itself as a blessing, is the subject of Marilynne Robinson's beautiful book. In this...
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World
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A wizard of a storyteller, Greenblatt combines prodigious historical research and encyclopedic knowledge to conjure a vision of life and love in Elizabethan England.
Cynthia Ozick
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Heir to the Glimmering World (Houghton Mifflin)Eccentric and beautiful, Cynthia Ozick's novel is about an immigrant family's attempts to preserve a dying esoteric...
Mark Helprin
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The Pacific and Other Stories (Penguin)
Mark Helprin's critics--who mainly regard him as a political conservative and, therefore, a traitor to imaginative literature--have made him...
Joy Williams
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Honored Guest: Stories (Knopf)
Joy Williams, specialist in what should be called sorrowful hilarity, reads from her work. Pretty soon we discover that what we...
Dave Eggers
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How We Are Hungry: Stories (McSweeney-s) Dave Eggers begins by describing his book as an object (it-s designed to look like a Moleskine Journal)....
Susan Sontag
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The Volcano LoverNovelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October...
