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January 01, 1990 - January 28, 2013 + Bookworm
Coral Bracho and translator Forrest Gander 
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Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions)Coral Bracho, a major Mexican poet, writes ecstatic visionary
poetry that has been translated into English for the first...
Brian Hall
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Fall of Frost (Viking)Brian Hall takes on a fictional life of
our great Robert Frost, giving language to the poet's inner life.
Keith Gessen
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All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking)Keith Gessen, one of the founding editors of the hip,
intellectual journal n+1, has written his first novel. It's about...
Zachary Lazar
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Sway (Little, Brown)Zachary Lazar's novel is about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson, Kenneth Anger and the dark side of the Sixties. In this conversation, we...
Richard Price
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Lush Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)This high-voltage interview with Richard Price (he spiels, riffs, and shoots off sparks) gives a rare insight into the way...
Isabel Allende
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The Sum of Our Days (Harper)Isabel Allende's second memoir is written to Paula, her daughter who died, telling the history of their family since her...
Clayton Eshleman
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An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (Black Widow Press)When The Bookworm explains that reading Eshleman's intense and visceral work brings up initial feelings of...
Bruce Weigl and Brian Turner
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Declension in the Village of Chung Luong (Ausable Press) and Brian Turner Here, Bullet (Alice James Books)Bruce Weigl is a poet who served in Vietnam....
David Shields
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The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead (Knopf)David Shields wrote this book to relieve his terrible fear of death. He compares...
Jim Krusoe
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Girl Factory (Tin House)In Jim Krusoe's strange and funny new novel, six women are being preserved in acidophilus in the basement of a frozen yogurt...
Peter Carey
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His Illegal Self (Knopf)The excitement of Peter Carey's new novel is rendered through a
specific stylistic choice: He integrates two wildly different voices
into the sentences, creating...
Ariana Reines
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Coeur de Lion (Mal-o-mar); The Cow (Fence Books)
This astonishing young poet—still in her twenties—is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her...
Colm Toibin
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Mothers and Sons: Stories (Scribner)
Colm Tóibín candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a...
Anne Enright
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The Gathering (Grove)
In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor.
Arnon Grunberg
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The Jewish Messiah (Penguin)
Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg’s
novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture.
