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January 01, 1990 - October 05, 2012 + Bookworm
Dave Eggers 
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What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (McSweeney's)
Autobiography, epic, documentary, novel--Dave Eggers explores the many facets of his
protean new work.
Mary Gordon
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The Stories of Mary Gordon (Pantheon)
Mary Gordon
makes distinctions. She writes only about characters who interest her,
people she would be willing to meet and spend time...
Richard Ford
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The Lay of the Land (Knopf) is Richard Ford's third novel about Frank Bascomb, his sportswriter-turned-realtor.
Anne Carson
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books)
Anne Carson's translations of four plays by Euripides are dynamic, intense and were written to be...
Philip Levine
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Breath (Knopf)
Philip Levine reminisces about his childhood--about how a working class boy came to poetry.
Greil Marcus
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In this conversation about how America disappoints its prophets and...
Jennifer Egan: The Keep
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Jennifer Egan researched classic Gothic fiction to develop a style that would deepen the terrors at the core of her new novel...
Lynne Tillman
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American Genius: A Comedy (Soft Skull)
Lynne Tillman's haunting novel takes the form of an obsessive's
monologue--consciousness masks pain; first-person narrative conceals
repression...
Chris Adrian: The Children's Hospital
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Author Chris Adrian, a pediatrician and theologian, imagines a future in which a
children's hospital becomes an ark that survives the flood at the end
of the...
Edward P. Jones
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All Aunt Hagar's Children (Amistad)
Edward P. Jones' magnificent new book of stories takes up characters from his earlier collection, Lost in the City. ...
Geoff Dyer
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Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment presents a series of improvisations and responses to photography, particular photographs and ideas about photography...
Clifford Chase
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Winkie (Grove)
After all this fiddle about souls and truth, finally a nice straightforward novel about a teddy bear who comes to life and is...
Zadie Smith
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On Beauty (Penguin)
Obliquely about On Beauty, this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is and how it represents a particular culture, and...
Michael Tolkin
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The Return of the Player (Grove)
In this conversation, the subject of the immorality of Hollywood gives way to the subject of the immorality of wealth,...
Marisha Pessl
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics: A Novel (Viking)
While Marisha Pessl's first novel has a bright and witty narrative voice, it has mysterious depths and...
