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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
Amy Tan 
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The Bonesetter's Daughter (Putnam)
During the writing of The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan endured both the death of her mother and the death of her...
Melanie Rae Thon
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Sweet Hearts (Houghton Mifflin)Melanie Rae Thon's new novel is very strange: it's narrated by a woman who cannot hear and has not witnessed the...
Manil Suri
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The Death of Vishnu
(Norton)
In his first novel, Manil Suri reenacts the Bhagavad-Gita in modern Bombay....
Carlos Fuentes
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The Years with Laura Díaz
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mexico's foremost living writer, Carlos Fuentes, talks about the male and female perspectives in his work. ...
Bernard Cooper
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Guess Again (Simon & Schuster)
Bernard Cooper explores the temptations he faces in his writing: a yearning for permanence and security rivaled by a...
Ann Beattie
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Perfect Recall (Scribner)
Expressing outright admiration for this new collection of stories, Bookworm attempts to pin down Ann Beattie's elusive techniques...
Matthew Klam
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Sam the Cat and Other Stories (Random House)
Matthew Klam discusses the sexcapades of the stud muffins and alleycats of his post-moral stories, truly the...
Jerome Rothenberg
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Jerome Rothenberg, editor A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections About the Book and Writing (Granary) Who knows what books...
Richard Powers
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Plowing the Dark (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Although Richard Powers rarely grants interviews, his intensity and sincerity blaze through as he talks about science, personal...
Ursula LeGuin
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Ursula LeGuin The Telling (Harcourt Brace) Ursula Le Guin believes that science fiction writers create new worlds in order to understand this...
Mona Simpson
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Off Keck Road (Knopf)
Mona Simpson's delicately textured and beautifully detailed novella about small-town life in Wisconsin provides the occasion for this conversation about women,...
Thomas Lynch
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest (Norton)
As a result of his two professions (poet and funeral director), Thomas Lynch has an unusual attitude toward...
Eduardo Galeano
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan)Eduardo Galeano's denunciation of our multinational globalized future is characteristically brilliant, whimsical-devastating. This conversation considers...
Chris Ware: Jimmy Corrigan
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The comic book, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon), is Bookworm's nominee for the past year's most interesting novel!
Gore Vidal
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The Golden Age (Doubleday)
With the completion of his American Empire series, author Gore Vidal reflects upon our national destiny...
