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Carol Muske-Dukes listen Download

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Channeling Mark Twain (Random House)This novel revives the belief that poetry has a close connection to personal and political liberation.

Steve Erickson listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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

Veronica Gonzalez listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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...