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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
John Haskell 
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Out of My Skin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
An existential novel (think Camus’ The Stranger) LA-style. When
a celebrity impersonator trains the hero in the art of...
Rae Armantrout
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Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered
poets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetry
derived from theory. Now,...
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive)
Micheline Marcom's works squeeze themselves between uncomfortable alternatives: Is her new novel, The Mirror in the Well, erotic or...
Sparks: The Art of the Popular Song
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Kimono My House (Island Def Jam); Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)After years of yearning, Bookworm talks with his favorite rock band about the...
Azar Nafisi
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Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House)Azar Nafisi is one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writing Reading Lolita in Tehran,
her memoir...
Toni Morrison, Part II
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A Mercy (Knopf)In this second half of our two-part interview with Toni Morrison, the conversation continues in an attempt to discover the way a novel...
Toni Morrison, Part I
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A Mercy (Knopf)In this first of two conversations with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, we explore the backgrounds of her novel, A Mercy.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Harcourt)What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie we
remember fearing in childhood? Or is she, as she believes, a...
Amitav Ghosh
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Sea of Poppies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
With Sea of Poppies, a trilogy begins! Few know that the opium that fueled the Opium Wars was grown...
Peter Matthiessen
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Peter Matthiessen recently won the National Book Award for Shadow Country, a novel closely connected to three previous books. We offer this 1999 conversation about...
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
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Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers and
their families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, Jack
Boughton, a man who would have...
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
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Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Marilynne Robinson had not published a novel in twenty years when she wrote Gilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer...
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
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Jerk, a play, from a story by Dennis Cooper, directed by Gisèle VienneOur series closes with American writer Dennis Cooper, who lives
and writes in Paris....
Jonathan Carroll
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The Ghost in Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Although he would never want us to say so, Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for...
David Foster Wallace
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Web exclusive: The terrible and sad impact of David Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the...
