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January 01, 1990 - February 22, 2012 + Bookworm
Annie Proulx

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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner)Annie Proulx's new collection is a stew of tall tales, romantic sagebrush sagas, and genuinely affecting...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II

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Camille de Toledo: Coming of Age at the End of History (Soft Skull)The young French critic, novelist and filmmaker Camille de Toledo tells the sad...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I

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Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris
Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual...
A Celebration of the Work of Swiss Writer Robert Walser

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A tribute to the great (and virtually unknown) Swiss writer Robert Walser, who
influenced Kafka and inspired Hermann Hesse. Writers Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg and Wayne Koestenbaum...
Francoise Mouly

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Editor of Toon Books Françoise Mouly describes the new children's books she's bringing into the world...
Art Spiegelman (local)

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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon)A sneak preview of the new Art Spiegelman book, which collects Art's early underground commix and...
Donald Ray Pollock (national)

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Knockemstiff (Doubleday)Knockemstiff, Ohio, inspires Donald Ray Pollock to explore the miseries and ferocities of small-town life.
Andrew Sean Greer

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The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A wonderful young novelist, Andrew Sean Greer, writes about
enormous and basic truths that his characters choose to...
Salman Rushdie

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The Enchantress of Florence (Random House)In this new novel, Salman Rushdie explores Renaissance Florence
and the reign of Akbar in India, in order to describe a...
Rudolph Wurlitzer

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The Drop Edge of Yonder (Two Dollar Radio)Where has Rudy Wurlitzer been for the last fifteen years? The mental traveler takes another vision quest, this...
Tobias Wolff

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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf)Tobias Wolff has re-written his famous stories many times—even
after they've been published...
Coral Bracho and translator Forrest Gander

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Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions)Coral Bracho, a major Mexican poet, writes ecstatic visionary
poetry that has been translated into English for the first...
Brian Hall

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Fall of Frost (Viking)Brian Hall takes on a fictional life of
our great Robert Frost, giving language to the poet's inner life.
Keith Gessen

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All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking)Keith Gessen, one of the founding editors of the hip,
intellectual journal n+1, has written his first novel. It's about...
Zachary Lazar

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Sway (Little, Brown)Zachary Lazar's novel is about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson, Kenneth Anger and the dark side of the Sixties. In this conversation, we...