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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm

Frederic Tuten listen Download

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Van Gogh's Bad Cafe (Morrow) Frederic Tuten, the author of Adventures of Chairman Mao on the Long March talks about his Pop Art novel of...

Anne Carson listen Download

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Plain Water (Knopf); Glass, Irony and God (New Directions) A truly intimate interview about the value of intelligence in the face of passion. Canadian poet Anne...

Rick Moody listen Download

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Purple America (Little, Brown) Nuclear energy, nuclear family: does the metaphor of fission apply equally to both? Rick Moody on the disintegration of values and the...

Whitney Otto listen Download

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The Passion Dream Book (Harper Collins) Whitney Otto, author of How to Make an American Quilt, discusses her new novel and the competing demands of...

Cees Nooteboom listen Download

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Roads to Santiago (Harcourt, Brace) The European award-winning novelist Cees Nooteboom explores the metaphysics of travel...

Norman Mailer listen Download

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The Gospel According to the Son (Random House) Norman Mailer reads "Lazarus Raised from the Dead" and discusses his version of The New Testament as told...

E. L. Doctorow listen Download

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Ragtime (Plume)We look back on E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, its publication, its structure, its long-lasting surprises and its most recent transformation--as a work of musical theater.

Amy Bloom listen Download

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Amy Bloom Love Invents Us (Random House)Amy Bloom, a therapist by profession, candidly discusses her popular short stories and the challenges of writing her first...

Kenward Elmslie listen Download

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Kenward Elmslie Postcards on Parade (Bamberger Books) Elmslie is our singing poet. Here, the New York School icon rummages through his song book and comes...

Robert Stone listen Download

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Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin) These collected stories by Robert Stone anticipated developments in American fiction by at least a decade...

Orhan Pamuk listen Download

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The New Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's imagination evokes the powerful lure of fairy tales. His books bring the magic of childhood...

Vikram Chandra listen Download

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Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (Little, Brown) The Gods, virtues and storytelling of traditional Hindu culture are at the heart of the stories...

Mark Twain listen Download

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Mark Twain The Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford University Press) In honor of the publication of a twenty-nine volume set of Twain, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Johnson...

David Foster Wallace listen Download

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Little, Brown)On a luxury cruise or at a state fair, David Foster Wallace is an ideal reporter...

Literary Presses listen Download

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Literary Presses Serious literature faces a double crisis: the disappearance of funding and the indifference of mainstream publishing. A coalition of literary presses springs to...