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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
Edward P. Jones 
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All Aunt Hagar's Children (Amistad)
Edward P. Jones' magnificent new book of stories takes up characters from his earlier collection, Lost in the City. ...
Geoff Dyer
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Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment presents a series of improvisations and responses to photography, particular photographs and ideas about photography...
Clifford Chase
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Winkie (Grove)
After all this fiddle about souls and truth, finally a nice straightforward novel about a teddy bear who comes to life and is...
Zadie Smith
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On Beauty (Penguin)
Obliquely about On Beauty, this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is and how it represents a particular culture, and...
Michael Tolkin
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The Return of the Player (Grove)
In this conversation, the subject of the immorality of Hollywood gives way to the subject of the immorality of wealth,...
Marisha Pessl
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics: A Novel (Viking)
While Marisha Pessl's first novel has a bright and witty narrative voice, it has mysterious depths and...
Andrew Holleran
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Grief (Hyperion)
Andrew Holleran has written a beautiful, somber novella about loss. His narrator has come to Washington, D.C. to teach a course about AIDS...
Chris Kraus: Torpor
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Chris Kraus takes her aim at the traditional bourgeois novel about marriage and family and delivers a book full of bullet-holes... What is left standing?
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Only Revolutions (Pantheon)
There’s no mistaking a novel by Mark Danielewski for any other. This new one can be read forward, backward and upside down. It...
Wole Soyinka
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn (Random House) Nobel Prize-winning African playwright Wole Soyinka explores the myths of exile and return that underlie his most...
John Updike, Part 2
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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Everyman's Library) A New York Times poll indicated that John Updike's quartet of Rabbit novels is one of the five...
John Updike, Part 1
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Terrorist (Knopf) The subject of John Updike's recent bestseller required that he contrast his own reliance on faith with the more violent faith of a...
Stacey Levine
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Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press)
Using the model of the "nurse romances" of the 1950's, Stacey Levine has concocted a small-town romance--with a difference. The undercurrents...
W. S. Merwin
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Present Company (Copper Canyon); Summer Doorways (Shoemaker and Hoard)
For his first visit to Bookworm, the eminent American poet, W. S. Merwin, explores the sequence of...
Uzodinma Iweala
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Beasts of No Nation (Harper Collins)
Forcing himself to inhabit the terrifying heart of amorality and violence, Uzodinma Iweala has created the first-person voice of a...
