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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot 
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on his new novel, in which he learned to "do" character.
W.S. Merwin: The Shadow of Sirius
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A rebroadcast of an engaging conversation with our great octogenarian laureate, W.S. Merwin.
Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon
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With little known about Pat Nixon, Ann Beattie decided to write a novel in the form of a writer's manual, she used Mrs. Nixon as...
Tony D'Souza: Mule
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Tony D'Souza reveals the life events that led him to write a novel about a solid, middle-class kid who becomes a drug mule...
Lawrence Weschler: Uncanny Valley
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The veteran contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney's distills his knowledge about how to structure the essay—from cultural comedies to political tragedies.
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
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The author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter takes breathtaking risks in exploring a morally complex story. The protagonist is a renegade and convicted sex...
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
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We visited Harold Bloom to talk about his new book, but when you talk with Bloom, you talk about politics, poetry, teaching, aging, reading and...
Justin Torres: We the Animals
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This sequence of short stories, or prose poems, or vignettes (author Justin Torres is open to all three descriptions) adds up to a little novel...
Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
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Wilson's goofy, sweet-hearted first novel is about a family of performance artists. The Fang family's siblings are struggling to leave their parents behind in order...
Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
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Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of Héctor Tobar's new novel, is a nanny is accused of kidnapping her charges, when she is, in fact, taking them...
Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning
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Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled...
Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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The Bookworm learns about retro culture from a master of rock criticism. Simon Reynolds meditates on the aspects of global music that have led to...
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
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An explorer of sensuality and violator of taboos, Rikki Ducornet allows a predatory psychoanalyst to narrate her new novel...
Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
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Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems....
Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
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At age sixteen Jon-Jon Goulian started to wear women's clothes — he couldn't say why. At age forty he wrote this memoir to account for...
