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January 01, 1990 - October 04, 2012 + Bookworm
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...
William T. Vollmann

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...