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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + Bookworm

Alice McDermott listen Download

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Child of My Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) An unusually tender conversation with Alice McDermott about grace, imagined here as the act of putting others before...

Monique Truong listen Download

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The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin) The Vietnamese cook in the famous Paris house of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas narrates Monique Truong's first novel...

Robert Stone listen Download

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Bay of Souls (Houghton Mifflin) Robert Stone's novel that features intrigue, romance, violence and voodoo...

Jane Smiley listen Download

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Good Faith (Knopf) An ebullient book about fraud and deception-the eighties, Jane Smiley-style.

Don DeLillo (Part II) listen Download

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Cosmopolis (Scribner's) and The Body Artist (Scribner's) In this, the second of a two-part interview, Don DeLillo explores his most enigmatic creation: the weird...

Don DeLillo (Part I) listen Download

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In Cosmopolis (Scribner's), the deadpan master of post-modern dysfunction-comedy takes an ordinary New York traffic jam and transforms it into a funeral procession that...

John Murray listen Download

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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Harper Collins) A young doctor who has worked in developing countries, John Murray has written a collection of...

Lynne Tillman listen Download

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This Is Not It: Stories (D. A. P.) Lynne Tillman's startling stories attempt to discover new connections between art and reality...

Kate Moses listen Download

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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin-s) Kate Moses attempts and achieves the impossible: she weaves Sylvia Plath-s imagery and intensity into...

ZZ Packer listen Download

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead) With her extraordinarily confident language, newcomer ZZ Packer confronts issues of race, class and education that have flummoxed more-experienced writers...

Jessica Shattuck listen Download

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The Hazards of Good Breeding (Norton) Jessica Shattuck skewers the narrow-minded prejudices of the Boston aristocracy. How did Shattuck, the daughter of...

John D'Agata, editor listen Download

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The Next American Essay (Gray Wolf)This remarkable anthology presents a picture of what the American essay is, and what, with any luck, it...

William Gibson listen Download

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Pattern Recognition (Putnam) William Gibson, the inventor of cyber-punk, says that his new novel, though set in the future, is realistic...

Norman Mailer listen Download

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The Spooky Art (Random House) Norman Mailer, the lion at eighty, stayed lair-bound long enough to assemble this collection of his thoughts about writing..

Louise Erdrich listen Download

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The Master Butchers Singing Club (Harper Collins) For the first time, Louise Erdrich writes about the European side of her heritage. Her new novel...