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January 01, 1990 - January 29, 2013 + Bookworm
Gary Indiana 
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The Shanghai Gesture (Two Dollar Radio)
Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films,
documents of "friendly" imperialism from the twenties to the...
Elizabeth Alexander
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Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration (Graywolf); American Sublime (Graywolf)
When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama's inaugural
poem, few of us...
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa's
voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are...
Joanna Scott
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Follow Me (Little, Brown)It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this novel
twists and turns, changes direction and may...
Abdellah Taia
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Salvation Army (Semiotext(e))
In Abdellah Taïa's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded by
silence. All sorts of behaviors are tolerated if they are not...
T.C. Boyle
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The Women (Viking)This richly layered conversation with T.C. Boyle centers on the subjects of art and arrogance. The Women
is a biographical novel, a fiction derived...
A Whitman Tribute
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Eamon Grennan: Matter of Fact (Graywolf)Major Jackson: Hoops (Norton)Pattiann Rogers: Wayfare (Penguin)
Three poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read from Leaves...
Robin Romm
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The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks (Scribner)
Fact and fiction. Robin Romm has written a book of short stories and now a memoir arising...
Frank Bidart, Part II
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Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part I of this...
Frank Bidart, Part I
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Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” (Part II of this interview...
John Haskell
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Out of My Skin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
An existential novel (think Camus’ The Stranger) LA-style. When
a celebrity impersonator trains the hero in the art of...
Rae Armantrout
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Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered
poets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetry
derived from theory. Now,...
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive)
Micheline Marcom's works squeeze themselves between uncomfortable alternatives: Is her new novel, The Mirror in the Well, erotic or...
Sparks: The Art of the Popular Song
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Kimono My House (Island Def Jam); Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)After years of yearning, Bookworm talks with his favorite rock band about the...
Azar Nafisi
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Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House)Azar Nafisi is one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writing Reading Lolita in Tehran,
her memoir...
