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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
W. G. Sebald 
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Austerlitz (Random House)What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in...
Joan Didion
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Political Fictions (Knopf)
We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for...
Richard Flanagan
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Death of a River Guide (Grove)
In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. Author Richard Flanagan...
David Means
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Assorted Fire Events (Context Books)
David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms...
Henry Bromell
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Little America (Knopf)
Author Henry Bromell, the son of a CIA agent, discusses the traps, secrets and patricidal rivalries that can turn father-son relationships into...
John Barth, Part II
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More on the spectacular fictional inventions of John Barth-including dual narrators, Muse-author collaborations, and stories so complexly interconnected that they mirror the...
John Barth, Part
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Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin)
A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions...
T. A. Shippey
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin) With the film of Lord of the Rings hard upon us, Professor Shippey recalls Tolkien and...
Salman Rushdie, Part II
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Fury (Random House)In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and...
Salman Rushdie, Part I
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Fury ( Random House)In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury. (Part...
Li-Young Lee
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Book of My Nights (BOA Editions)
Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls...
New American Short Stories
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Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton)
Three young writers,...
Walter Mosley
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Fearless Jones (Little Brown)
Walter Mosley is best known for his noir mysteries. With books set in the black communities of Los Angeles, he...
Arnon Grunberg
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Silent Extras (St. Martin's) The young Dutch writer who created a sensation in Europe with his first novel, a sort of Amsterdam-set Catcher in...
Ann Patchett
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Bel Canto (Harper Collins)
Ann Patchett knows that a novel is an author's private kingdom-problems the world can't solve can be solved within the pages...
