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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm
David Rieff 
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster)David Rieff accompanied his mother, Susan Sontag, through the medical ordeals that led to...
Geraldine Brooks
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People of the Book (Viking)The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. What does the miraculous survival of this medieval codex tell...
Lewis Hyde
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)How does the creative person function in a market culture? In the 25 years since...
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson
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Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa...
Robert Hass
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 (Ecco)
If it can still be said that a poet can have a humanizing influence on his culture, Robert Hass...
Cees Nooteboom
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Lost Paradise (Grove)
In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt...
Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf)
Oliver Sacks explores the brain's affinity for music by examining the extraordinary ways our brains adapt in response...
Russell Banks
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The Reserve (Harper)Russell Banks, one of the great living American novelists, uses the 1930's novel of passion and betrayal -- with its allied seductions, madness,...
Edmund White
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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel (Ecco)Here's a literary historical enigma: Did Stephen Crane attempt to write a gay companion piece to his Maggie:...
James McCourt
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Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey (Turtle Point)This big, hilarious and joyful book has been twenty-five years in the making. The best description of it...
David Plante
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ABC (Pantheon)
In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes leads unrelated victims to search for order. Mysteriously, the "order" they discover...
Ann Patchett: Run
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The family in Ann Patchett's Run unites rich with poor, black with white. The novel is a thriller—but the mystery at its heart is the...
George Saunders: The Braindead Megaphone
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This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, George Saunders-style and explores the construction of short fiction from the ground up.
Carol Muske-Dukes
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Channeling Mark Twain (Random House)This novel revives the belief that poetry has a close connection to personal and political liberation.
Steve Erickson
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Zeroville (Europa Editions)Steve Erickson's breakthrough novel is about the The Movies—not the movie business, not the wheels and deals—but The Movies themselves.
