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January 01, 1990 - October 04, 2012 + Bookworm

Matthew Klam listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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The Golden Age (Doubleday) With the completion of his American Empire series, author Gore Vidal reflects upon our national destiny...

William T. Vollmann listen Download

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The Royal Family (Viking) William Vollmann's growing sense of mystical Christianity is bringing him closer to Dostoevsky...

Joy Williams listen Download

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The Quick and the Dead (Knopf)  In Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead, bleak and wicked comedy hides the book's religious mission, demonstrating how God...

Myla Goldberg listen Download

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Bee Season (Doubleday) This is Myla Goldberg's haunting first novel, about a Jewish family torn apart by manias born of spiritual mysticism on the one hand,...

Ha Jin listen Download

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The Bridegroom (Pantheon) Ha Jin, a Chinese writer who came to America in 1985, has published seven books of fiction and poetry in English. What are...

Heidi Julavitz: The Mineral Palace listen Download

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This remarkable first novel offers an occasion to pay tribute to its late editor, and to salute its young author, whose imagery and vision promise...

Tony Earley listen Download

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Jim the Boy (Little Brown) Tony Earley has been hailed as a new American master, and, indeed, he has written a classic rite-of-passage novel...