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January 01, 1990 - October 05, 2012 + Bookworm
Angus Fletcher 
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A New Theory of American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Harvard University Press) Angus Fletcher, the literary critic as seer, carefully...
Alex Garland
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The Coma (Riverhead) Alex Garland explores the metaphysical underpinning of his pared-down skeletal novel. He feels he took a big risk and expects to...
Craig Nova
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Cruisers
(Shaye Areheart Books)
The dark precisions of Craig Nova's Cruisers provoke anxiety. Tension mounts; the book feels like a thriller, but one of...
Karen Joy Fowler
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The Jane Austen Book Club (Putnam) Karen Joy Fowler's comic romance is filled with sly references to Jane Austen's novels. Is Fowler paying homage or...
David Bezmozgis
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Natasha and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
David Bezmozgis captures the lives of Jewish immigrants in Canada. The difficulty of starting a new life...
John Banville
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Shroud (Vintage)
Michael Silverblatt flew to Dublin for the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day and night immortalized in James Joyce's...
Seamus Heaney
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Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision...
Art Spiegelman
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In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon)Because Art Spiegelman lives within walking distance of the site
of the Twin Towers, his graphic novel about 9/11 captures...
Walter Abish
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Double Vision: A Self Portrait (Knopf)
Walter Abish's most-admired novel, How German Is It, was written before the writer had ever set foot in...
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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The Daydreaming Boy (Riverhead)Micheline Aharonian Marcom explores the moral, cultural and sexual consequences of genocide...
Jim Shepard
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Project X (Knopf); Love and Hydrogen
(Vintage)
Jim Shepard's fondness for the little guy, the day-dreaming Walter Mitty type is the focus of this conversation,...
E. L. Doctorow
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Sweet Land Stories (Random House)
This lovely new collection features con men, killers, cult leaders, baby stealers and the occasional prophet. E.L. Doctorow reveals...
Rebecca Solnit
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River of Shadows (Penguin); Hope in the Dark (Nation)
In her poetic biography, Rebecca Solnit uses the figure of photographer Edward Muybridge to discuss...
Martin Amis
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Yellow Dog (Miramax)
While examining the mysteries of Martin Amis' enigma-turned-thriller, we speculate about the future of the literary novel...
Suzan-Lori Parks
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Getting Mother's Body (Random House)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks talks about her first novel, rejecting an art of concealment for one that celebrates rollicking immediacy...
