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January 01, 1990 - February 12, 2013 + Bookworm
Rita Dove 
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American Smooth (Norton)
When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...
Clayton Eshleman
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Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan) An exploration of Upper Paleolithic cave painting leads poet Clayton Eshleman to...
James McCourt: Queer Street
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Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 (Norton)
Although camouflaged as a social history, James McCourt's Queer Street is a memoir of...
Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Fifth Book of Peace (Knopf) A fire at home destroys her manuscript and reminds Maxine Hong Kingston of the firebombing of Vietnam. ...
Stuart Dybek
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I Sailed with Magellan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Dream and reality are side by side in Stuart Dybek's short stories--but with a twist. As the...
Tobias Wolff
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Old School (Knopf)This conversation illustrates the care Tobias Wolff takes with narrative revelation: every step reveals character, each twist and turn provides a clue...
Toni Morrison
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Love (Knopf)Nobel laureate Toni Morrison shows how the careful arrangement of specific detail in her newest fiction, Love, forces the reader to participate in its...
Elmore Leonard: Mr. Paradise
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Mr. Paradise (Morrow)
Raffish characters, extreme events and lewd jokes are signatures of the widely praised Elmore Leonard style....
Susan Choi
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American Woman
(Harper Collins)
The critics loved Susan Choi's novelization of the Patty Hearst saga, but they barely mention the book's center, told from the...
Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin)
Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri defines her beliefs about writing: directness, simplicity, reality and emotional truth are her guideposts. How...
Edmund White
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Fanny: A Fiction (Ecco)
Edmund White turns himself into Mrs. Trollope, the Victorian traveler who, in her last year, narrates a biography of...
DBC Pierre
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Vernon God Little (Canongate) DBC Pierre (the dark horse underdog who surprised the literary world by winning the 2003 Booker Prize) divulges the hidden...
Remembering George Plimpton
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This interview, originally broadcast on March 5, 1998, will not be heard on KCRW so that we may present special holiday programming.
Remembering Edward Said
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Over the course of his career, Edward Said produced compact and thrilling works that revolutionized the field of literary criticism. In his memory, Bookworm offers...
Pete Dexter
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Train (Doubleday)
