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January 01, 1990 - February 12, 2013 + Bookworm
David Means

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Assorted Fire Events (Context Books)
David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms...
Henry Bromell

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Little America (Knopf)
Author Henry Bromell, the son of a CIA agent, discusses the traps, secrets and patricidal rivalries that can turn father-son relationships into...
John Barth, Part II

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(Houghton Mifflin)
More on the spectacular fictional inventions of John Barth-including dual narrators, Muse-author collaborations, and stories so complexly interconnected that they mirror the...
John Barth, Part

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Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin)
A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions...
T. A. Shippey

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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin) With the film of Lord of the Rings hard upon us, Professor Shippey recalls Tolkien and...
Salman Rushdie, Part II

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Fury (Random House)In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and...
Salman Rushdie, Part I

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Fury ( Random House)In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury. (Part...
Li-Young Lee

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Book of My Nights (BOA Editions)
Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls...
New American Short Stories

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Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton)
Three young writers,...
Walter Mosley

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Fearless Jones (Little Brown)
Walter Mosley is best known for his noir mysteries. With books set in the black communities of Los Angeles, he...
Arnon Grunberg

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Silent Extras (St. Martin's) The young Dutch writer who created a sensation in Europe with his first novel, a sort of Amsterdam-set Catcher in...
Ann Patchett

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Bel Canto (Harper Collins)
Ann Patchett knows that a novel is an author's private kingdom-problems the world can't solve can be solved within the pages...
Ethan Canin

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Carry Me Across the Water (Random House)
Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of...
Nick Hornby

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How to Be Good (Riverhead)
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, has made a shift: the gifted comic novelist has adopted...
Carol Muske-Dukes

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Life after Death (Random House)Carol Muske-Dukes began to write a dark comedy about death. Slowly, she discovered that compassion was reshaping her book,...