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January 01, 1990 - October 04, 2012 + Bookworm
Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon)
Charles Yu's sweeter-spirited vision of how vintage science fiction can be used to imagine our world....
Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
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The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown)
Rick Moody creates a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga, basing his story on a cheapo so-bad-it's-good sci-fi classic...
Howard Norman: What Is Left the Daughter
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What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Howard Norman's Wyatt Hillyer has good reason to be blocked: His parents committed
suicide within an hour of...
Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story
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Super Sad True Love Story (Random House)
Can Lenny and Eunice find love in a futuristic America in which computer screens instantly and constantly reveal economic...
Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books)
Maile Meloy’s stories go shooting off in such surprising and unpredictable directions that a reader...
Vendela Vida: The Lovers
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The Lovers (Harper Collins/ Ecco)
Vendela Vida has crafted another mysterious and beautiful novel about a woman's identity. This woman, Yvonne, is middle-aged, the oldest woman...
Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks
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First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song...
Craig Nova: The Informer
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The Informer (Shaye Areheart Books)
Craig Nova has written a frightening novel about corruption in pre-Nazi Berlin. Especially frightening is Nova's perception that those times are...
Martha McPhee: Dear Money
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Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In Martha McPhee's comic novel, a wizard of Wall Street promises he can change a novelist from a desperate bohemian into...
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview with David Mitchell
Glowing front-page reviews and profiles proclaim David Mitchell to be "the real thing" and his new novel, The Thousand...
D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic
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Chronic (Graywolf)
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers an impressive $100,000 prize to a poet entering the major phase of his/her career. We speak to this...
Jane Smiley: Private Life
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Private Life (Knopf)
Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of
a genius whose work never catches on,...
Peter Carey
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Parrot & Olivier in America (Knopf)
Australian-born Peter Carey celebrates his years in America with a larking, picaresque novel based on Toqueville's Democracy in America...
Aimee Bender
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday)
A little girl is able to taste sadness in her food. Her brother, who has become emotionally withdrawn, is...
Favorite Books: John Waters and Elif Batuman
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Role Models (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and The Possessed (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
John Waters’ gives a passionate description of his favorite books, and for good...
