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John Barth, Part II listen Download

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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...

John Barth, Part listen Download

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Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin) A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions...

T. A. Shippey listen Download

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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin) With the film of Lord of the Rings hard upon us, Professor Shippey recalls Tolkien and...

Salman Rushdie, Part II listen Download

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Fury (Random House)In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and...

Salman Rushdie, Part I listen Download

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Fury ( Random House)In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury. (Part...

Li-Young Lee listen Download

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Book of My Nights (BOA Editions) Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls...

New American Short Stories listen Download

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Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton) Three young writers,...

Walter Mosley listen Download

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Fearless Jones (Little Brown) Walter Mosley is best known for his noir mysteries. With books set in the black communities of Los Angeles, he...

Arnon Grunberg listen Download

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Silent Extras (St. Martin's) The young Dutch writer who created a sensation in Europe with his first novel, a sort of Amsterdam-set Catcher in...

Ann Patchett listen Download

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Bel Canto (Harper Collins) Ann Patchett knows that a novel is an author's private kingdom-problems the world can't solve can be solved within the pages...

Ethan Canin listen Download

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Carry Me Across the Water (Random House) Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of...

Nick Hornby listen Download

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How to Be Good (Riverhead) Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, has made a shift: the gifted comic novelist has adopted...

Carol Muske-Dukes listen Download

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Life after Death (Random House)Carol Muske-Dukes began to write a dark comedy about death. Slowly, she discovered that compassion was reshaping her book,...

Micheline Aharonian Marcom listen Download

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Three Apples Fell from Heaven (Riverhead) Micheline Aharonian Marcom's stunning first novel imagines the Armenian genocide...

Ann Lauterbach listen Download

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If in Time, Collected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin) Ann Lauterbach believes that one of the primary functions of poetry is the demystification of the world's cliches and...