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January 01, 1990 - May 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Jonathan Carroll 
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The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Although he would never want us to say so, Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for...
David Foster Wallace
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Web exclusive: The terrible and sad impact of David Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the...
Sarah Vowell
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The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead)What brought the indomitable Sarah Vowell to write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes of The Brady Bunch...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
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Grégoire Bouillier The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar Straus & Giroux) and Report on Myself (Houghton Mifflin)Olivier Cadiot Colonel Zoo ( Green Integer)Marc Cholodenko Mordechai...
Diane Johnson
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Lulu in Marrakech (Dutton)Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in a
comic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the author
stands, but...
Francine Prose: Goldengrove
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Francine Prose is full of surprises in speaking of her newest
novel, Goldengrove It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister has
drowned....
James Wood
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How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)This conversation is characterized by indirection. Critic James Wood seems to be responding to accusations made against him by...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part III
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Pierre Alféri: Oxo (Burning Deck) and Natural Gaits ( Sun & Moon)
Emmanuel CarrèreClass Trip & The Mustache (Picador) and The Adversary: A True Story of...
Art Spiegelman
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Breakdowns (Pantheon)Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! is the subtitle of this new book, and we talk about the kind of young %@&*!...
Horacio Castellanos Moya
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Senselessness, translated by Katherine Silver (New Directions)Castellanos Moya's first novel to be translated into English is a jet black tragic-comedy...
David Markson
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The Last Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard)David Markson has invented his own "personal genre." His novels
present collaged panoramas of the travails of art and artists—the bad
reviews,...
Annie Proulx
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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner)Annie Proulx's new collection is a stew of tall tales, romantic sagebrush sagas, and genuinely affecting...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II
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Camille de Toledo: Coming of Age at the End of History (Soft Skull)The young French critic, novelist and filmmaker Camille de Toledo tells the sad...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
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Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris
Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual...
A Celebration of the Work of Swiss Writer Robert Walser
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A tribute to the great (and virtually unknown) Swiss writer Robert Walser, who
influenced Kafka and inspired Hermann Hesse. Writers Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg and Wayne Koestenbaum...
