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January 01, 1990 - May 06, 2012 + Bookworm
Don Lee: Country of Origin 
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Country of Origin (Norton)
Multi-racial ethnicity underlies the mystery in this literary thriller by Korean-American writer Don Lee, who spent much of his childhood first...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin)Spaniard Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses the way he utilizes "modern narrative technologies" to re-tool the traditional novel and...
William Gass
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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translations (Knopf); Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke, introduction by William Gass (Archipelago)
The greatest living writer of prose...
William T. Vollmann
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Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins)
William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...
Dan Chaon
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You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine)
However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences...
Steve Almond
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Algonquin) The author traveled our country visiting the stalwart independent manufacturers of classic candies. His beautifully...
Marianne Wiggins
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Evidence of Things Unseen (Simon & Schuster)
Marianne Wiggins returned to live in America after many years in England. Having written two turbulent, disturbing books, her...
A Tribute to Czeslaw Milosz
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Czeslaw Milosz, the great Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet, died in August. He was a great humanist who believed in the power of poetry to affect...
Angus Fletcher
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A New Theory of American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Harvard University Press) Angus Fletcher, the literary critic as seer, carefully...
Alex Garland
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The Coma (Riverhead) Alex Garland explores the metaphysical underpinning of his pared-down skeletal novel. He feels he took a big risk and expects to...
Craig Nova
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Cruisers
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The dark precisions of Craig Nova's Cruisers provoke anxiety. Tension mounts; the book feels like a thriller, but one of...
Karen Joy Fowler
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The Jane Austen Book Club (Putnam) Karen Joy Fowler's comic romance is filled with sly references to Jane Austen's novels. Is Fowler paying homage or...
David Bezmozgis
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Natasha and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
David Bezmozgis captures the lives of Jewish immigrants in Canada. The difficulty of starting a new life...
John Banville
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Shroud (Vintage)
Michael Silverblatt flew to Dublin for the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day and night immortalized in James Joyce's...
Seamus Heaney
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Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision...
