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January 01, 1990 - March 05, 2013 + Bookworm
Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm 
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Dennis Cooper on the inarticulate emotions that underlie the razzle-dazzle of secret corridors, lush language, brutality and desire.
Jonathan Lethem: The Ecstasy of Influence
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Autobiographical essays and Jonathan Lethem on his favorite books, spending time with James Brown and the writer's role as public intellectual.
Peter Gizzi: Threshold Songs
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This book of poetry is the product of great grief in Peter Gizzi's life: the death of his mother, his brother and his best friend...
Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes
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Paul La Farge on his innovation of the novel form. His new novel, though it is published between covers, only represents one third of the...
Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve
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The true story of the historical detective whose work uncovered the 1000 year-old poem that shook the early Christian world and marked the beginning of...
Joan Didion: Blue Nights
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After the deaths of husband and daughter, Joan Didion wrote the most personal and poetic book of her impressive career...
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on his new novel, in which he learned to "do" character.
W.S. Merwin: The Shadow of Sirius
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A rebroadcast of an engaging conversation with our great octogenarian laureate, W.S. Merwin.
Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon
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With little known about Pat Nixon, Ann Beattie decided to write a novel in the form of a writer's manual, she used Mrs. Nixon as...
Tony D'Souza: Mule
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Tony D'Souza reveals the life events that led him to write a novel about a solid, middle-class kid who becomes a drug mule...
Lawrence Weschler: Uncanny Valley
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The veteran contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney's distills his knowledge about how to structure the essay—from cultural comedies to political tragedies.
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
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The author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter takes breathtaking risks in exploring a morally complex story. The protagonist is a renegade and convicted sex...
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
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We visited Harold Bloom to talk about his new book, but when you talk with Bloom, you talk about politics, poetry, teaching, aging, reading and...
Justin Torres: We the Animals
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This sequence of short stories, or prose poems, or vignettes (author Justin Torres is open to all three descriptions) adds up to a little novel...
Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
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Wilson's goofy, sweet-hearted first novel is about a family of performance artists. The Fang family's siblings are struggling to leave their parents behind in order...
