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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm
August Kleinzahler 
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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A a single, perfectly placed phrase brings an essay about the death...
Alan Hollinghurst
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The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury) Allan Hollinghurst-s Booker Prize-winning novel pits the aesthetic sensibility against the deprivations of Margaret Thatcher-s London-here seen as the...
Russell Banks
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The more closely you investigate Russell Banks' powerful new novel, The Darling, the stranger it becomes. Set in Liberia, it explores its heroine's narcissistic...
Orhan Pamuk
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Snow (Knopf)
Turkey's preeminent novelist, Orhan Pamuk, has decided to write a political novel-without a political agenda. The result resembles -- but not quite -- the...
Courtney Angela Brkic
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The Stone Fields
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Courtney Angela Brkic recruited her forensic skills to help exhume and identity bodies from besieged villages in Bosnia. She...
Louis de Bernières
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Birds without Wings (Knopf)
In a conversation about the birth of the conflicts that beset us, Louis de Bernières (Corelli's Mandolin) talks about a Turkish...
Kem Nunn
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Tijuana Straits (Scribner)
The inventor of "surf-noir," Kem Nunn, describes how the evil of the world offers an opportunity for a writer of thrillers to...
Don Lee: Country of Origin
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Country of Origin (Norton)
Multi-racial ethnicity underlies the mystery in this literary thriller by Korean-American writer Don Lee, who spent much of his childhood first...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin)Spaniard Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses the way he utilizes "modern narrative technologies" to re-tool the traditional novel and...
William Gass
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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translations (Knopf); Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke, introduction by William Gass (Archipelago)
The greatest living writer of prose...
William T. Vollmann
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Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins)
William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...
Dan Chaon
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You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine)
However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences...
Steve Almond
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Algonquin) The author traveled our country visiting the stalwart independent manufacturers of classic candies. His beautifully...
Marianne Wiggins
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Evidence of Things Unseen (Simon & Schuster)
Marianne Wiggins returned to live in America after many years in England. Having written two turbulent, disturbing books, her...
A Tribute to Czeslaw Milosz
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Czeslaw Milosz, the great Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet, died in August. He was a great humanist who believed in the power of poetry to affect...
