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January 01, 1990 - January 27, 2013 + Bookworm

Louise Erdrich listen Download

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The Master Butchers Singing Club (Harper Collins) For the first time, Louise Erdrich writes about the European side of her heritage. Her new novel...

Brian Hall listen Download

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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company (Viking) Brian Hall-s novel of Lewis and Clark turns the extraordinary expedition upside down to find...

A. S. Byatt (Part II) listen Download

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A Whistling Woman (Knopf)In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed...

A. S. Byatt (Part I) listen Download

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A Whistling Woman (Knopf)Dame Antonia Byatt began a quartet of novels twenty years ago with The Virgin in the Garden. She completes this huge...

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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (Pantheon) A wild and beautiful writer, Geoff Dyer goes to Rome where he "basically did...

Colum McCann listen Download

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Dancer (Metropolitan) Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating,...

Hubert Selby, Jr. (Part 1) listen Download

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In the first of a two-part interview, Hubert Selby, Jr, now in his seventies, reviews and relives the tumult created by his debut novel, Last...

Ron Padgett listen Download

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You Never Know (Coffee House) Ron Padgett tells the story of three writers who traveled from Tulsa to Manhattan and became the leaders of the...

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex listen Download

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Jeffrey Eugenides' multi-generational novel in which a Greek-American family, replete with elements of Greek tragedy (incest, hermaphroditism), witnesses American history.

Kim Deitch listen Download

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The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Pantheon) In a special edition of Bookworm, Art (Maus) Spiegelman joins us to introduce Kim Deitch, -one of the best...

Jonathan Franzen listen Download

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How to Be Alone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In this edgy conversation, author Jonathan Franzen and his interviewer take positions, argue, reverse positions and start again...

Mary Robison listen Download

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Tell Me (Counterpoint); Why Did I Ever (Counterpoint) Mary Robison returns to her student days of writing stories for John Barth's workshop, and...

Sandra Cisneros listen Download

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Caramelo (Knopf) In this moving interview, Sandra Cisneros reveals the connection between history and family history: the processes of memory....

Joyce Carol Oates listen Download

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Joyce Carol Oates' I'll Take You There (Ecco) appears to be a novel about college in the 1960s and interracial dating. At...

Tristan Egolf listen Download

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The Skirt and the Fiddle (Grove) When young Egolf-s first novel, The Lord of the Barnyard, was published, he was compared to writers he-d never...