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January 01, 1990 - February 01, 2013 + Bookworm
Nathan Englander 
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The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf)Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos
to stand for all kinds of disappearance. Here, we focus on yet another:
his own.
Naeem Murr
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The Perfect Man (Random House)Naeem Murr's work has been described as perverse—but he insists that
this perversity seems ordinary to him.
Michael Ondaatje: Divisadero
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Michael Ondaatje's novels come together through obsession and intuition. He works in the dark, not knowing where he is
heading, juxtaposing disparate materials, noticing echoes and
recurrences.
Helena Maria Viramontes
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Their Dogs Came with Them (Atria)
Helena Maria Viramontes has written about L.A.-based Latino culture before -- but who could have expected this epic work about...
Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man without a Country (7 Stories)The late Kurt Vonnegut has
been astonishing us sincethe 1960's. Here, in the rebroadcast of a 2006 interview, he speaks...
Alice Sebold
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The Almost Moon (Little Brown)Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) gives a sneak preview of her new novel, coming out this fall...
Richard Flanagan
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The Unknown Terrorist (Grove)
Richard Flanagan felt that his last novel, Gould's Book of Fish,
widely acclaimed a masterpiece, had burnt him out. Here, he discusses
the things...
Jim Crace
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The Pesthouse (Doubleday)
Jim Crace
makes lies masquerade as truth in this post-apocalyptic tale of
toxified America.
Jonathan Lethem
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You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday)
The pleasures of the lightweight and the free-spirited.
Kiran Desai
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The Inheritance of Loss (Grove)
Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai says she prefers "messiness" to perfection--it's more human, and it fits her subject better.
Mark Slouka
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The Visible World (Houghton Mifflin)
Can a novelist uncover a secret?
John Ashbery and Ron Padgett on the works of Pierre Reverdy
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Haunted House (Ashbery); Prose Poems
(Padgett) (both from Black Square Editions)
The haunted, lonely prose-poetry of Pierre Reverdy has attracted many translators. Two of America's most extraordinary...
Lydia Davis
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Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lydia Davis writes elegant prose pieces in which
basic confusions are described with authority and clarity.
Joanna Scott
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Everybody Loves Somebody (Back Bay Books)Joanna Scott claims her collection of stories is a history of love, from World War I to the present.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The Gravedigger’s Daughter (Ecco)
Oates's most autobiographical novel and the culmination of her career-long themes and obsessions.
