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January 01, 1990 - February 12, 2013 + Bookworm
Mona Simpson: My Hollywood 
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My Hollywood (Knopf)
Mona Simpson's new novel corkscrews its way into the heart of a Santa Monica marriage, a marriage in which child raising duties are...
Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth
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Bitter in the Mouth (Random House)
Monique Truong is an intransigent—she will not settle for anyone's desire to interpret or in any way falsity the world...
Tom McCarthy: C
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Tom McCarthy's C (Knopf) is one of those post-modern novels designed to drill a hole in your head and help you inventory the contents of...
Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon)
Charles Yu's sweeter-spirited vision of how vintage science fiction can be used to imagine our world....
Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
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The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown)
Rick Moody creates a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga, basing his story on a cheapo so-bad-it's-good sci-fi classic...
Howard Norman: What Is Left the Daughter
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What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Howard Norman's Wyatt Hillyer has good reason to be blocked: His parents committed
suicide within an hour of...
Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story
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Super Sad True Love Story (Random House)
Can Lenny and Eunice find love in a futuristic America in which computer screens instantly and constantly reveal economic...
Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books)
Maile Meloy’s stories go shooting off in such surprising and unpredictable directions that a reader...
Vendela Vida: The Lovers
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The Lovers (Harper Collins/ Ecco)
Vendela Vida has crafted another mysterious and beautiful novel about a woman's identity. This woman, Yvonne, is middle-aged, the oldest woman...
Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks
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First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song...
Craig Nova: The Informer
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The Informer (Shaye Areheart Books)
Craig Nova has written a frightening novel about corruption in pre-Nazi Berlin. Especially frightening is Nova's perception that those times are...
Martha McPhee: Dear Money
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Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In Martha McPhee's comic novel, a wizard of Wall Street promises he can change a novelist from a desperate bohemian into...
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview with David Mitchell
Glowing front-page reviews and profiles proclaim David Mitchell to be "the real thing" and his new novel, The Thousand...
D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic
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Chronic (Graywolf)
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers an impressive $100,000 prize to a poet entering the major phase of his/her career. We speak to this...
Jane Smiley: Private Life
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Private Life (Knopf)
Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of
a genius whose work never catches on,...
