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January 01, 1990 - January 26, 2013 + Bookworm
Toni Morrison, Part II 
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A Mercy (Knopf)In this second half of our two-part interview with Toni Morrison, the conversation continues in an attempt to discover the way a novel...
Toni Morrison, Part I
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A Mercy (Knopf)In this first of two conversations with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, we explore the backgrounds of her novel, A Mercy.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Harcourt)What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie we
remember fearing in childhood? Or is she, as she believes, a...
Amitav Ghosh
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Sea of Poppies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
With Sea of Poppies, a trilogy begins! Few know that the opium that fueled the Opium Wars was grown...
Peter Matthiessen
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Peter Matthiessen recently won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, a novel closely connected to three previous books. We offer this 1999 conversation about...
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
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Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers and
their families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, Jack
Boughton, a man who would have...
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
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Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Marilynne Robinson had not published a novel in twenty years when she wrote Gilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
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Jerk, a play, from a story by Dennis Cooper, directed by Gisèle VienneOur series closes with American writer Dennis Cooper, who lives
and writes in Paris....
Jonathan Carroll
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The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Although he would never want us to say so, Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for...
David Foster Wallace
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Web exclusive: The terrible and sad impact of David Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the...
Sarah Vowell
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The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead)What brought the indomitable Sarah Vowell to write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes of The Brady Bunch...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
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Grégoire Bouillier The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin)Olivier Cadiot Colonel Zoo ( Green Integer)Marc Cholodenko Mordechai...
Diane Johnson
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Lulu in Marrakech (Dutton)Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in a
comic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the author
stands, but...
Francine Prose: Goldengrove
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Francine Prose is full of surprises in speaking of her newest
novel, Goldengrove It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister has
drowned....
James Wood
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How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)This conversation is characterized by indirection. Critic James Wood seems to be responding to accusations made against him by...
