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January 01, 1990 - January 28, 2013 + Bookworm
Ariel Dorfman

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Blake's Therapy (7 Stories Press)
Ariel Dorfman describes his goal: to subvert the techniques of melodrama and thriller-writing in order to penetrate illusion and arrive at...
Carl Phillips

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The Tether (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Pastoral (Gray Wolf)
Strongly influenced by the Metaphysical poets, Carl Phillips writes a mixture of erotic and devotional poetry...
Louise Erdrich

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Harper Collins)
Louise Erdrich mixes elements of her German and Native American ancestry to create...
John Felstiner, translator

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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
(Norton)
John Felstiner
has produced a superb translation of works by the great Holocaust poet Paul Celan...
Nicholson Baker

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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Random House)Nicholson Baker has been on a crusade to preserve intact our books and newspapers. ...
John Balaban, translator

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Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong (Copper Canyon Press)
Ho Xuan Huong was an 18th century Vietnamese poet and concubine. Poet...
Jack Fuller

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The Best of Jackson Payne (Knopf)
A conversation with author Jack Fuller, who happens to be the president of the Tribune Publishing Company, and ...
Amitav Ghosh

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The Glass Palace (Random House)Amitav Ghosh's ambitions are Tolstoyan. He chronicles the tragedies of the British Empire in India and Burma. His...
Dagoberto Gilb

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Woodcuts of Women (Grove)
Dagoberto Gilb's stories have enormous poetic vitality, yet he feels that he suffers from a lack of recognition. Has his...
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In this novel, the distance between autobiography and fiction is minimal. Lois-Ann Yamanaka is living...
Amy Tan

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The Bonesetter's Daughter (Putnam)
During the writing of The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan endured both the death of her mother and the death of her...
Melanie Rae Thon

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Sweet Hearts (Houghton Mifflin)Melanie Rae Thon's new novel is very strange: it's narrated by a woman who cannot hear and has not witnessed the...
Manil Suri

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The Death of Vishnu
(Norton)
In his first novel, Manil Suri reenacts the Bhagavad-Gita in modern Bombay....
Carlos Fuentes 
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The Years with Laura Díaz
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mexico's foremost living writer, Carlos Fuentes, talks about the male and female perspectives in his work. ...
Bernard Cooper

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Guess Again (Simon & Schuster)
Bernard Cooper explores the temptations he faces in his writing: a yearning for permanence and security rivaled by a...