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January 01, 1990 - January 28, 2013 + Bookworm
Steve Erickson

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Zeroville (Europa Editions)Steve Erickson's breakthrough novel is about the The Movies—not the movie business, not the wheels and deals—but The Movies themselves.
Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl, to air this...
Millard Kaufman

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Bowl of Cherries (McSweeney's)
Millard Kaufman has written a classic comic novel that belongs in the tradition that runs from Charles Dickens to Evelyn...
Ron Padgett

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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffee House) Ron Padgett's intimate and affectionate biography-memoir of his friend of four decades, artist-poet Joe Brainard.
Robert Alter

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The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (Norton)
Biblical scholar Robert Alter faces a barrage of questions: What are psalms? Who wrote them?...
Junot Diaz

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
This wide-ranging yet intimate conversation explores many difficult subjects...
Veronica Gonzalez

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twin time: or how death befell me (Semiotext(e))
The heroine of twin time is a woman whose life is surrounded by mystery. Who is her father?...
Rupert Thomson

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Death of a Murderer (Knopf)
A factual series of murders provides the background for this novel: the
Moor Murders that haunted the British imagination in the...
Alice Sebold

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The Almost Moon (Little, Brown)
Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved and
lovable books in recent years. How did she prepare...
Ana Castillo

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The Guardians (Random House)
This is a novel about borders in which borders disappear: the border
between old and young, between secular and sacred, between states—but
not...
William Gibson

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Spook Country (Putnam)Along with the
most sophisticated future-predictions, speculations about the sociology
of cities, and adventures in virtual post-realities, William Gibson has finally
learned how to get his...
Viken Berberian

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Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster)Viken Berberian writes in a post-modern apocalyptic vein about billionaire stock traders, terrorists and...
Marianne Wiggins

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The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster)
With its fascinating combination of history, biography, memoir and essay, is The Shadow Catcher a novel?
Miranda July

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No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Prestel)
Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We...
Nathan Englander

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The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf)Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos
to stand for all kinds of disappearance. Here, we focus on yet another:
his own.