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January 01, 1990 - November 13, 2012 + Bookworm
Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning 
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Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled...
Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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The Bookworm learns about retro culture from a master of rock criticism. Simon Reynolds meditates on the aspects of global music that have led to...
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
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An explorer of sensuality and violator of taboos, Rikki Ducornet allows a predatory psychoanalyst to narrate her new novel...
Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
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Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems....
Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
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At age sixteen Jon-Jon Goulian started to wear women's clothes — he couldn't say why. At age forty he wrote this memoir to account for...
Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus
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After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus
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Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
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A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2
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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1
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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...
UpClose: Sapphire
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's
publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."
Dora Malech: Say So
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Dora Malech explores the violence of relationships...
Chris Adrian: The Great Night
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Oncologist and novelist Chris Adrian talks about how his need to tell and hear stories has helped him through his difficult work with children.
John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun
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John Sayles on how a writer gathers knowledge, the language, the unusual perspectives and the humanity to illuminate the whole arc of our history...
Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
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Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer celebrates his first published essay in the New Yorker. He tells us how his amateur interest in jazz led him...
Louis B. Jones: Radiance
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Radiance (Counterpoint)
Mark Perdue, a physics professor who we first met in Louis B. Jones' Particles of Luck, is at the farther fringe of a complete...
