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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + Bookworm
Robert Stone 
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Damascus Gate
(Houghton Mifflin).
Robert Stone explores the underlying holiness of all faith--from the fanatic's to the mystic's, from the con-man's to the addict's...
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison, author of Cavedweller (Dutton). Dorothy Allison's arrival as a significant voice in mainstream American fiction provokes questions of identity and the limits of...
Timothy O'Grady
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Timothy O'Grady author of I Could Read the Sky (Harvill). A collaborative novel consisting of prose by Tim O'Grady and photographs by Steve Pike, I...
Stephen Kessler
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A Tribute to Julio Cort---r. Stephen Kessler, the translator of Save Twilight (City Lights), the first volume of Cort---r's poetry to appear in English, discusses...
Russell Banks: Cloudsplitter
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The fictionalized life of abolitionist Frederick Douglass is
the jumping-off point for a conversation about the white writer's contribution
to a discussion of race....
Lynne Tillman
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No Lease on Life
(Harcourt Brace).
In Lynne Tillman's wild novel about a tentative urban guerrilla we explore racial jokes and their connection to the city's...
Gore Vidal
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The Smithsonian Institution
(Random House)
The urbane Gore Vidal on the emotional center of his newest "invention"...
Aharon Appelfeld
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Aharon Appelfeld, author of The Iron Tracks (Schocken). The Israeli writer reveals the story behind the writing of his newest novel, a fable about the...
Alice McDermott
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Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Alice McDermott's prose captures the suburban Irish-American family. How does her dense, constricted, complex writing-style reflect the lives of these...
Jim Crase
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Jim Crase, author of Quarantine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This novel of faith by an atheist follows Jesus through his forty-day fast in the desert....
Martin Amis
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Night Train
(Crown)
Suicide is the solution to the mystery in Martin Amis' noir thriller with existentialist undercurrents.
Helen Vendler
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The Given and the Made, The Breaking of Style, Soul Says (Harvard) How does a poet change styles? What turns an autobiographical incident into a...
Maureen Howard
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Maureen Howard, author of A Lover's Almanac (Viking). The latest from Maureen Howard's over-loaded "data base" is a new novel about love--and biology, art, destiny,...
David Malouf
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David Malouf, author of Conversations at Curlow Creek (Vintage). The award-winning Australian writer searches for a lost child--a search that has mysteriously occupied Malouf for...
Amos Oz
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Amos Oz, author of Panther in the Basement (Harcourt Brace), reminisces about Israel on the eve of its independence: a portrait of the author as...
