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January 01, 1990 - March 20, 2012 + Bookworm
Jorie Graham 
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Overlord (Harper Collins)
Jorie Graham, whose work is known for its depth and complexity, makes a plea for moral action...
Walter Kirn
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Mission to America (Doubleday)
Walter Kirn uses comedy the way a magician uses sleight-of-hand. His hilarity conceals sadness, his levity masks gravity.....
Octavia Butler
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Fledgling (Seven Stories Press) As a science fiction writer, the MacArthur Prize-winning Octavia Butler has taken the conventional elements of the genre and transformed them...
John Barth
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Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas
(Houghton Mifflin)
John Barth, a hero of the post-modern novel, talks about (among other things) heroism, the name "Fred" (which...
David Foster Wallace 
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Little, Brown)
David Foster Wallace insists on a conversation where what can be
said must be said honestly (along with a...
John Lahr
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Honky Tonk Parade: The New Yorker Profiles (Overlook)
John Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker explains the autobiographical origins of his profiles. His father...
Tim Winton
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The Turning (Scribner's) Tim Winton has been declared a National Treasure in his native Australia. His characters are ordinary people defined by narrow economic choices,...
Myla Goldberg
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Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday)
Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, tiptoes toward an acknowledgement of her dark vision. She has written a novel in which almost...
John Carlin and Art Spiegelman
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Masters of American Comics (Hammer/MOCA/Yale)Curator and comics expert John Carlin joins Art Spiegelman in a lively discussion of this sumptuously illustrated volume that contains...
Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf)
How does a writer handle personal tragedy? Joan Didion explores the possibility that writing about her husband's death and her...
Annie Proulx
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Brokeback Mountain (Scribner)Annie Proulx expresses her passion for accuracy of detail and truth of character. She is one of the lucky few writers to see...
Mary Gaitskill
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Veronica
(Pantheon)
Michael Silverblatt confesses that he is frightened by Mary Gaitskill's intensely forward work. Gaitskill confides that sometimes she is frightened by the world...
Ted Thompson, Jonathan Safran Foer and Kelly Link
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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs and Some Other Things... (Mc Sweeney's)
McSweeney's has assembled a sublimely playful anthology of stories for YA's. We talk to editor Ted...
Robert Pinsky
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The Life of David (Schocken)Robert Pinsky, a former poet-laureate, writes a biography-tribute to the Biblical King David, the poet warrior. Our conversation circles the subject...
Stanley Crawford
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Petroleum Man (Overlook)
In Stanley Crawford's satire of corporate greed, a "gas-guzzling" super-magnate writes a loving description of every car he has ever owned. What is...
