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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
William Gibson

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Spook Country (Putnam)Along with the
most sophisticated future-predictions, speculations about the sociology
of cities, and adventures in virtual post-realities, William Gibson has finally
learned how to get his...
Viken Berberian

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Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster)Viken Berberian writes in a post-modern apocalyptic vein about billionaire stock traders, terrorists and...
Marianne Wiggins

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The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster)
With its fascinating combination of history, biography, memoir and essay, is The Shadow Catcher a novel?
Miranda July

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No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Prestel)
Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We...
Nathan Englander

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The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf)Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos
to stand for all kinds of disappearance. Here, we focus on yet another:
his own.
Naeem Murr

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The Perfect Man (Random House)Naeem Murr's work has been described as perverse—but he insists that
this perversity seems ordinary to him.
Michael Ondaatje: Divisadero

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Michael Ondaatje's novels come together through obsession and intuition. He works in the dark, not knowing where he is
heading, juxtaposing disparate materials, noticing echoes and
recurrences.
Helena Maria Viramontes

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Their Dogs Came with Them (Atria)
Helena Maria Viramontes has written about L.A.-based Latino culture before -- but who could have expected this epic work about...
Kurt Vonnegut

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A Man without a Country (7 Stories)The late Kurt Vonnegut has
been astonishing us sincethe 1960's. Here, in the rebroadcast of a 2006 interview, he speaks...
Alice Sebold

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The Almost Moon (Little Brown)Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) gives a sneak preview of her new novel, coming out this fall...
Richard Flanagan

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The Unknown Terrorist (Grove)
Richard Flanagan felt that his last novel, Gould's Book of Fish,
widely acclaimed a masterpiece, had burnt him out. Here, he discusses
the things...
Jim Crace

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The Pesthouse (Doubleday)
Jim Crace
makes lies masquerade as truth in this post-apocalyptic tale of
toxified America.
Jonathan Lethem

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You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday)
The pleasures of the lightweight and the free-spirited.
Kiran Desai

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The Inheritance of Loss (Grove)
Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai says she prefers "messiness" to perfection--it's more human, and it fits her subject better.
Mark Slouka

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The Visible World (Houghton Mifflin)
Can a novelist uncover a secret?