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January 01, 1990 - January 21, 2013 + Bookworm
Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly, editors 
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Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Harper Collins) Spiegelman and Mouly discuss their exciting treat for kids of all ages-the newest Little Lit,...
Allen Kurzweil
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The Grand Complication (Hyperion) A genuinely odd discussion about the consequences of scholarly book-loving. That is, a conversation about manipulation, games-playing, sexual repression and...
Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Feast of the Goat
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant novel about the Trujillo regime, the Dominican Republic stands for all tyrannized...
Allan Gurganus
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The Practical Heart (Knopf)
Allan Gurganus talks intimately about the people who introduced him to art and literature during his childhood., moving beyond irony and distance...
Isabel Allende
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Portrait in Sepia (Harper Collins)
Isabel Allende on war, love, autobiography, patriarchy, feminism and sex.
Edward Said
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Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (Pantheon); The Said Reader (Vintage)
A passionate conversation about exile, literature and critical theory. Palestinian-born Edward Said...
John D'Agata
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Halls of Fame (Greywolf)
The inventor of a new style of lyrical essay writing, John D'Agata talks about the classical traditions he draws upon and...
Coleman Barks
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The Soul of Rumi (Harper San Francisco)
Rumi's ancient mystical poetry swings between ideals of transcendence and destruction. Coleman Barks explores the extreme polarities...
Jonathan Franzen
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The Corrections
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
When The Corrections appeared, it was immediately nominated as a candidate for The Great American Novel. Jonathan Franzen...
W. G. Sebald
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Austerlitz (Random House)What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in...
Joan Didion
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Political Fictions (Knopf)
We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for...
Richard Flanagan
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Death of a River Guide (Grove)
In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. Author Richard Flanagan...
David Means
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Assorted Fire Events (Context Books)
David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms...
Henry Bromell
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Little America (Knopf)
Author Henry Bromell, the son of a CIA agent, discusses the traps, secrets and patricidal rivalries that can turn father-son relationships into...
John Barth, Part II
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Coming Soon!!!
(Houghton Mifflin)
More on the spectacular fictional inventions of John Barth-including dual narrators, Muse-author collaborations, and stories so complexly interconnected that they mirror the...
