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January 01, 1990 - October 02, 2012 + Bookworm
John Yau 
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Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin)In a searching inquiry into the language of poetry, John Yau talks about avoiding autobiography while creating poetry that reflects his Chinese-American...
Leonard Cohen
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Book of Longing (Ecco)
Leonard Cohen talks about his early years as a poet in Montreal; his novel, Beautiful Losers; his songs; and now, ten...
Yannick Murphy
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Here They Come
(McSweeney's)
Memory, instinct and aesthetics combine to recreate childhood in Yannick Murphy's new novel...
Barry McGovern
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Samuel Beckett, Three Novels, read by Barry McGovern, an 18-CD set (RT-- Radio). The centenary of Samuel Beckett---s birth is celebrated with a complete recording...
Elias Khoury
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Gate of the Sun (Archipelago) Lebanese Elias Khoury speaks of the years he spent developing his craft and maturing as a writer in order to...
Chip Kidd
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Book One, Work 1986-2006 (Rizzoli) Chip Kidd is one of the pre-eminent designers of book jacket art in publishing today. His designs have inspired...
Deborah Eisenberg
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Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The amazing Deborah Eisenberg has written some of the most astute and funny stories about American...
Ian Monk
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Writings for the Oulipo (Make Now Press); translator of New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel (Atlas)
Oulipo is the school of literature that uses linguistic...
Susan Straight
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A Million Nightingales (Pantheon)Susan Straight's novel about slavery has a buried theme: the commodification of the body and the fetishizing of mixed-blood children. We explore...
Stephen Wright
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The Amalgamation Polka (Knopf)
Stephen Wright has written a Civil War novel and has mastered all the prose styles of classic American literature (Melville, Twain, Stowe,...
Dara Horn
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The World to Come (Norton)Dara Horn, a writer who specializes in Yiddish literature and culture, explores the metaphysical underpinnings of her new novel. We begin...
Elliot Perlman
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The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (Riverhead)An unusual interview in which Elliot Perlman (author of an impressive novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity) is asked to...
Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man without a Country (7 Stories)In his eighties, Kurt Vonnegut is still the magnificent satirist, critic, dreamer and grouch who has been astonishing us...
Jorie Graham
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Overlord (Harper Collins)
Jorie Graham, whose work is known for its depth and complexity, makes a plea for moral action...
Walter Kirn
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Mission to America (Doubleday)
Walter Kirn uses comedy the way a magician uses sleight-of-hand. His hilarity conceals sadness, his levity masks gravity.....
