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January 01, 1990 - November 13, 2012 + Bookworm
Joy Williams 
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The Quick and the Dead (Knopf)
In Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead, bleak and wicked comedy hides the book's religious mission, demonstrating how God...
Myla Goldberg
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Bee Season (Doubleday)
This is Myla Goldberg's haunting first novel, about a Jewish family torn apart by manias born of spiritual mysticism on the one hand,...
Ha Jin
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The Bridegroom (Pantheon)
Ha Jin, a Chinese writer who came to America in 1985, has published seven books of fiction and poetry in English. What are...
Heidi Julavitz: The Mineral Palace
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This remarkable first novel offers an occasion to pay tribute to its late editor, and to salute its young author, whose imagery and vision promise...
Tony Earley
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Jim the Boy
(Little Brown)
Tony Earley has been hailed as a new American master, and, indeed, he has written a classic rite-of-passage novel...
Kazuo Ishiguro
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When We Were Orphans
(Knopf)
Kazuo Ishiguro pits a child's naïve dream of becoming a master detective against the larger mysteries of adultery, death ...
Michael Chabon
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Random House)
Michael Chabon's novel about escape artists, super heroes and the Golden Age of Comics is...
Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes
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The work of novelists Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes is characterized by complexity, beauty and sophistication. Guess what? They write comics!
Amy Gerstler
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Medicine (Penguin)
Amy Gerstler regards her poetry as a sort of spell to ward off danger. Her new book deals with the tragedies that cannot...
Russell Banks: The Angel on the Roof
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The house of fiction has many rooms. Russell Banks talks about the life- choices that led him to occupy his particularly gritty sublet.
Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
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While revealing her passion for storytelling, cunning Margaret Atwood
carefully avoids the secret mechanisms of her engrossing new novel, "The Blind Assassin."
Mark Strand II
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Chicken, Shadow, Moon and More
(Turtle Point)
We defy you not to laugh when you hear these poems from the previously sepulchral laureate Mark Strand...
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
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Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)In this second interview about Little Lit, its creators, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, remind us that...
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost
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The reticent Michael Ondaatje becomes more revealing. Here he goes so far as to formulate his artistic credo and even makes comments that truly...
Diane Johnson
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Le Marriage (Dutton)
The bird-like flutings of Diane Johnson's amused voice animate this merry duet about France, comedy, depravity and marriage.
