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January 01, 1990 - April 30, 2012 + Bookworm
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part II

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Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)
When Flats and Quake were published, the sixties were ending, and these novels can be said...
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part I

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Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)
In this first of two interviews, Wurlitzer takes us time-traveling back to the late 1960's when...
Barbara Kingsolver

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The Lacuna (Harper)
What do Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have to do with an invented author of Mayan and Incan historical romances?
Wallace Shawn

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Essays (Haymarket Books) and a play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors (Theatre Communicatons Group)Wallace Shawn’s newest play intermingles fact and fantasy in such a bizarre...
Orhan Pamuk, Part II

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The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)The Nobel Prize helped to set the fiction of Orhan Pamuk (and Turkish literature in general) in a contemporary global frame....
Orhan Pamuk, Part I

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The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)Infidelity and adultery are two of the great subjects of the novel tradition — think of Anna Karenina or Madam Bovary....
A.S. Byatt

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The Children's Book (Knopf)As the vast array of subjects presented in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book parades past — puppetry, women's rights, Fabianism, Peter Pan,...
Tao Lin

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Shoplifting from American Apparel (Melville House)
Although he has had five books published--two novels, a book of stories and two books of poems, Tao Lin is...
Brenda Hillman

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Practical Water ( Wesleyan)
Brenda Hillman's work has been described as difficult and experimental, but we beg to disagree. Here, we hear some of her most...
Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood

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Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel takes place simultaneously with Oryx and Crake — her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
James Galvin

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As Is (Copper Canyon)One of our most tender poets (tough but tender), James Galvin, investigates his growing tendency toward poems that express his bitterness— toward...
Nicholson Baker

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The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster)The polymath Nicholson Baker has been able to create a version of himself in the figure of accomplished poet Paul Chowder...
Nick Laird

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Glover's Mistake (Viking)
In this novel of love, manipulation and deception, Nick Laird attempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures...
Lorrie Moore

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A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)
Lorrie Moore has written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work,...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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The Angel's Game (Doubleday)Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers.