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January 01, 1990 - January 28, 2013 + Bookworm
Steven Watson 
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Steven Watson "Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism" (Random House) "Four Saints inThree Acts" by Gertrude Stein...
Sue Miller
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Sue Miller "While I Was Gone" (Knopf) Sue Miller's new novel has an odd morality ? could it be that generations of preachers...
Alex Garland
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Alex Garland "The Tesseract" (Riverhead) In this unusual interview, the popular young English novelist (The Beach) presents the secret purpose of his work:...
Lois Ann Yamanaka
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Heads by Harry
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Asian-American Lois-Ann Yamanaka evokes the melding of native traditions with tourist pop culture that characterized her Hawaiian childhood.
Ian McEwan
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Amsterdam
(Doubleday)
Articulate and sinister Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan discusses the role of pathology (and that poet of pathology, Sigmund Freud) in his work.
Thom Jones
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Thom Jones "Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine" (Little Brown) Thom Jones, famous for his short stories, brings his trademark dementia and...
David Remnick and Mary F. Corey
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David Remnick (editor of the New Yorker) and Mary F. Corey "Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Mid-Century" (Harvard). Asocial historian joins the...
Curtis White
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Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive)
This novel describes a man who remembers his father mostly through the TV shows they watched together...
Marina Warner
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Marina Warner "No Go the Bogeyman" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The dark side of fairy tales. A conversation about the cultural persistence of...
Harry Mathews
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Harry Mathews "Oulipo Compendium" (Atlas) Poet-novelist Harry Mathews discusses a unique literary movement and shows how strong emotion can penetrate even the most whimsical...
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis "Glamorama" (Knopf) He has been rejected by critics and reviled by Gen X, yet Bret Easton Ellis reaches to the core...
Mitch Sisskind
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Mitch Sisskind "Divine Deception: The Inner Gender of Gender" (Earl University Press) A maverick scholar unravels the secret hoaxes that have masked the sexuality...
Nuruddin Farah
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Nuruddin Farah "Secrets" (Arcade) An extraordinary conversation about the Somali author's language and family. The sounds of a mother's speech patterns initiate a...
Kevin Killian
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Kevin Killian "Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance" (Wesleyan/New England) Jack Spicer was the maddest, loneliest and most inspired...
Irvine Welsh
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Irvine Welsh "Filth" (Norton) From anarchism (Trainspotting) to fascism (Filth): Irvine Welsh on his gallery of outsiders.
