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Isabel Allende listen Download

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Island Beneath the Sea (Harper) Isabel Allende's historical novel about slavery and the Haitian revolution becomes the springboard for a conversation about global injustice and the...

Zachary Mason listen Download

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Higher mathematics and logic problems have long intrigued fiction writers, including Zachary Mason. Both Lewis Carroll...

Jean-Philippe Toussaint listen Download

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Self-Portrait Abroad (Dalkey Archive); Running Away (Dalkey Archive) French fiction had become austere and theoretical until Jean-Philippe Toussaint took it in the direction of the wacky,...

Yann Martel listen Download

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Beatrice & Virgil (Spiegel & Grau) After recognizing that most holocaust literature is centered on personal testimony, Yann Martel decided to create an allegory about the...

David Shields and Ander Monson on the New Prose listen Download

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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf Press) New web technologies (and the ever-increasing availability of information) have made possible a...

Ian McEwan listen Download

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Solar (Doubleday) Along the way in our conversation about bad morals and good intentions, Ian McEwan dabbles in the background subjects of his new novel...

Anne Carson listen Download

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Nox (New Directions) Anne Carson's brother ran away, and she never saw him again. After learning of his death some twenty years later, she assembled Nox...

Sam Lipsyte: The Ask Download

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In the midst of all his scandalous anger and shenanigans, it's the shape of a great sentence that keeps Sam Lipsyte's interest in writing fiction...

Chang-rae Lee listen Download

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The Surrendered (Riverhead) Renowned for his novels about repressed, withdrawn characters, Chang-rae Lee new novel explores new ground....

John D'Agata listen Download

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About a Mountain (Norton) In a culture whose major activities include consumption and the production of waste, John D'Agata ponders the adjacency of Las Vegas and...

Elif Batuman listen Download

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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elif Batuman never intended to study literature, learn Russian,or learn...

John Ashbery listen Download

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Planisphere (Ecco) John Ashbery has made a dumbfounding statement: he is afraid that sometimes "the language gets in the way of the music of a poem." ...

Adam Haslett listen Download

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Union Atlantic (Doubleday)While Adam Haslett's new novel tracks the underground movements of big money and global management, he still has his novelist's eye on the...

Joshua Ferris listen Download

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The Unnamed (Little, Brown) Josh Ferris, who won a huge audience with his hilarious office novel, Then We Came to the End, has done an about-face...

Barbara Epler listen Download

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New Directions, the press that began by publishing Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Tennessee Williams and which today gives us Roberto Bolaño, W. G....