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Guy Maddin listen Download

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From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings (Coach House) When the emerging avant-garde filmmaker Guy Maddin published his journals, the connection between his life and his wacky...

Harold Bloom: The Best Poems of the English Language listen Download

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With solemnity, grace and a little defensiveness, this Grand Old Man of Letters reads, discusses and defends his choices...

Alice Walker listen Download

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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (Random House) She's at it again! This time, Alice Walker takes to the rain forest for the...

Lucie Brock-Broido listen Download

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Trouble in Mind: Poems (Knopf) The ecstatic and ghoulish poetry of Lucie Brock-Broido is stitched together from fragments of poetic history. In this...

Andrew Sean Greer listen Download

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The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The hero of this novel is born an old man who ages backwards-not an unusual fantasy...

Melissa Pritchard listen Download

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Melissa Pritchard's Late Bloomer is funny. She's taken her ongoing interest in creativity and transformation, and placed it in counterpoint to a lively parody of...

Edwidge Danticat listen Download

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The Dew Breaker (Knopf) What happens when a Haitian "dew breaker" (torturer) moves to America and conceals his identity? In this collection of interrelated...

Chris Abani listen Download

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GraceLand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In Chris Abani's GraceLand, a teenage Elvis-impersonator in Lagos, Nigeria lives in poverty as he pursues an American pop-culture dream...

David St. John listen Download

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The Face (Harper Collins) Rapid tonal shifts, teetering rhetorical mixtures of irony and self-pity, and overwhelming instability characterize David St. John's The Face, a novella in...

Octavia Butler listen Download

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Kindred (Beacon) Although Octavia Butler was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (-genius- grant-) in 1995 because of her science fiction, she does not consider her...

Benjamin Weissman, with editor Dennis Cooper listen Download

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Headless (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic Books) Dennis Cooper is editing a new-fiction series for Akashic Books. Benjamin Weissman's Headless is one of the...

Doris Lessing listen Download

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The Grandmothers (Harper Collins) Doris Lessing, one of our most sage and canny living writers discusses the real stories behind her fiction....

Rita Dove listen Download

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American Smooth (Norton) When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...

Clayton Eshleman listen Download

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Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan) An exploration of Upper Paleolithic cave painting leads poet Clayton Eshleman to...

James McCourt: Queer Street listen Download

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Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 (Norton) Although camouflaged as a social history, James McCourt's Queer Street is a memoir of...