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January 01, 1990 - July 21, 2011 + Bookworm
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.
Dennis Cooper
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Ugly Man (Harper Collins)
Although we've followed the career of Dennis Copper from the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence—the master director...
Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza
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Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what’s been happening in...
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
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Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)
Stephen Sondheim is right — his new musical, Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator,...
Clancy Martin
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How to Sell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turns
out — surprise! — to be a...
Colum McCann
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Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Darkened by intimations of 9/11, Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novel
brings together the lives of strangers who witness...
Reif Larsen
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Penguin Press)
Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...
Glen David Gold
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Sunnyside (Knopf)What a charming raconteur Glen David Gold is, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War...
Eduardo Galeano
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Nation Books)Eduardo Galeano has written a history of the world in brief chapters, each one devoted to an iconic incident...
E. L. Doctorow
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Homer & Langley (Random House)
In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other...
Jim Krusoe
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Erased (Tin House Books)
In this wild and woolly conversation, Jim Krusoe reveals that
his zany, unpredictable, hilarity-inspiring novels are, well,
descriptions of the human condition (at least...
Anne Waldman
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Manatee /Humanity (Penguin Poets)
Anne Waldman guides us through this book-length poetry-and-prose
meditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremony
designed to instill a deeper sense of...
