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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Cal Bedient 
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Cal Bedient, Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) This book, the poet's first, comes as the culmination of years of criticism and teaching. Here, an in-depth discussion of...
Jim Krusoe
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Blood Lake (Boaz)Jim Krusoe's stories locate us between an episodic and choppy daily life and an interior world of unimaginably constant anxiety. How does this...
Susan Straight
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The Gettin'Place (Anchor)Susan Straight, chronicler of the underclass, can be counted on for rich character delineation and lots of atmosphere. In The Gettin Place, She...
Helen Vendler
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Helen Vendler The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard) Surprising and accessible, Vendler, one of America's most respected critics, separates the lovelorn Shakespeare who appears in...
Mona Simpson
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A Regular Guy (Vintage)
The search for family in Mona Simpson's novels is nearly a sacred quest...
Arundhati Roy
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The God of Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy talks about the price of success in India's literary circles - and about the "small things"...
Michelle Huneven
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Round Rock (Knopf) Michelle Huneven brings the worldly realism of John Steinbeck up to date in a new novel: a story of growth, compassion and...
Brian Hall
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The Saskiad (Houghton Mifflin) Brian Hall, the author of one of the great novels of adolescence, speaks about the sexual awakening of his narrator.
Alain de Botton
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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not A Novel (Pantheon) The "Stendhal of the dating scene" Alain de Botton talks about French literature, the virtues...
Ron Padgett
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New & Selected Poems
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Poet Ron Padgett discusses his selected poems.
Steve Erickson
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Amnesiascope (Owl Books); American Nomad (Holt)
Steve Erickson's novels dramatize the disintegration of the American dream, using a prose style that is itself dreamlike.
Caryl Phillips
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The Nature of Blood (Knopf) In her latest novel, Caryl Phillips contrasts slavery and genocide in the lives of Jews and Africans over several centuries....
Dennis Cooper
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Guide (Grove). With an aesthetic reflective of hallucinogenic disorientation and the sensory overload of rock and roll, Dennis Cooper talks about the transformation of chaos...
Robert Antoni
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Blessed Is the Fruit (Holt) Robert Antoni, the Caribbean novelist on place, aesthetics and gender, plus a spellbinding reading from his novel.
Alice Walker
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (Random House)
The ever-provocative Alice Walker discusses the nature of a writer's social responsibilities.
