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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Ron Hansen 
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Atticus Ron Hansen has written a noir novel with theological underpinnings. Is the moral novelist a moral man?
David Foster Wallace
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Infinite Jest (Little, Brown and Company)
David Foster Wallace has written the ultimate mega-meta novel, a
1078-page whopper. The surprise is that this mind-stunner may capture
the imagination...
Jeff Noon
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Pollen Adventures in cyberspace. A first--Bookworm goes sci.fi. with the author of Vurt! Is there a boundary between science fiction and literature?
Robert Hass
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Human Wishes After an analysis of the role that pleasure and pain play in his poetry, our poet laureate discusses contemporary literary criticism.
Alan Lightman
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Good Benito; Einstein's Dreams Lightman discusses loneliness: the curse of the scientist and the rest of us, as well.
Dale Peck
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The Law of Enclosures A discussion about the strategies of structure--how Peck disassembles chronology to tell the story of an unhappy marriage.
Oscar Hijuelos
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Mr. Ives' Christmas
Oscar Hijuelos on the difficulty of writing a contemporary tale of faith.
Salman Rushdie
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The Moor's Last Sigh
Part I: The focus is on Salman Rushdie's writing: its themes, structures, techniques and styles. The subjects include mothers, love, cartoons,...
Blaise Cendrars
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Complete Poems; Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies
Translators Ron Padgett and Garrett White on the work of the rip-roaring, fire-snorting French poet, Blaise Cendrars.
Barry Unsworth
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Morality Play History and fiction-writing. The Booker Prize winner talks about how he uses the past as a commentary on the present.
Philip Graham
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How to Read an Unwritten Language Graham began by writing prose poems, graduated to short stories and has no produced a novel. It's a...
Jack Gilbert
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The Great Fires:Poems 1982-1992The poet and adult passion: An improvisation on the nature of love, poetry's moral function and the finality of death.
Norman Mailer
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Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
Norman Mailer's examination of Picasso provokes a discussion of three Mailer obsessions: women, art and crime.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Zombie; What I Lived For
In two new novels, Joyce Carol Oates has created disturbing male narrators. How do such dark creations affect the...
Amy Tan
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The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan, an instinctual writer, discusses the gradual steps she has taken toward mastering the craft of novel-writing.
