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Richard Howard listen Download

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Inner Voices: selected poems 1963-2003; Paper Trail: selected prose 1965-2003 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Richard Howard's extraordinary urbanity and sophistication are evident as he explores his...

Salman Rushdie listen Download

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Shalimar the Clown (Random House)Although the history of Kashmir provides the backdrop of Salman Rushdie's new novel, it is a larger-than-life romance with larger-than-life characters--a...

Jane Smiley listen Download

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Knopf) Two novel-lovers share their deep passions for reading. Jane loves the realists; Michael the Bookworm loves the inventors....

Campbell McGrath listen Download

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Pax Atomica: poems (Ecco) Campbell McGrath has figured out how to perform a wonderful trick: he writes ecstatic comic poetry about the decline of America...

Christopher Sorrentino listen Download

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Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Christopher Sorrentino takes the Patty Hearst saga as the springboard for an exploration of the mass hypnosis of American culture. This...

Joyce Carol Oates listen Download

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Missing Mom (Ecco) Joyce Carol Oates says this novel was written as a tribute to her mother, who died last year. Clearer, simpler, less literary than...

George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil listen Download

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The author of The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp decided he'd try to write another satire-fantasy.

Colm Toibin listen Download

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The Master (Scribner) The winner of this year's Los Angeles Times award for fiction reveals the difficulties of writing about the life of Henry James...

Francine du Plessix Gray listen Download

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Them: A Memoir of Parents (The Penguin Press) After an affair with the great Russian poet Mayakovsky, Francine du Plessix Gray's mother married a...

Louise Erdrich listen Download

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The Painted Drum (Harper Collins) Louise Erdrich's beautiful short novel emerged over a period of ten years, after an older story suddenly suggested deeper meanings...

Kazuo Ishiguro listen Download

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Never Let Me Go (Knopf) Kazuo Ishiguro never tells more than he has to--his stripped-down narratives are filled with absence and mystery. In this science fiction...

Michel Houellebecq listen Download

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H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (Believer Books) The controversial French writer on his early influence, H. P. Lovecraft, the American writer of...

Umberto Eco listen Download

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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Harcourt) The loss of memory is Umberto Eco's subject here. After a stroke, an antiquarian bookseller remembers every book...

Nicole Krauss: The History of Love listen Download

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The History of Love: A Novel (Norton) Memory is the subject of many novels, but Nicole Krauss' subject is the transmission of memory: how do you...

Bret Easton Ellis listen Download

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Lunar Park (Knopf) Beginning as an autobiography, Lunar Park turns into a classic horror novel. The haunted house, however, is spooked by Bret Ellis- personal...