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January 01, 1990 - November 13, 2012 + Bookworm

Tobias Wolf listen Download

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The Night in Question (Knopf) Tobias Wolff on the ethical questions that animate the dramatic heart of his stories. An intense analysis of fiction's relation...

Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient listen Download

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Man Booker-Prize winner Michael Ondaatje seems to be one of the very few writers who appreciates the screen adaptation of his work...

Michael Lally listen Download

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Michael Lally Can't Be Wrong (Coffee House Press) Michael Lally--part Frank Sinatra, part William Saroyan--is an auditory seducer. This poet will leave you panting.

Robert Olen Butler listen Download

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Robert Olen Butler Tabloid Dreams (Holt) The characters from supermarket tabloids reveal their inner truths in Pulitzer Prize-winner Butler's poetic stories..

Elena Poniatowska listen Download

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Elena Poniatowska Tinisima (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Mexico's &quotpremiere woman of letters&quot on Tina Modotti--photographer, model, revolutionary--the subject of this biographical novel.

Paul Theroux listen Download

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Paul Theroux My Other Life (Houghton Mifflin) This autobiography is a supernatural story in disguise--hear Paul Theroux's Dr. Jekyll explain the demonic nature of Paul...

Brad Gooch listen Download

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Brad Gooch The Golden Age of Promiscuity (Knopf) Brad Gooch reveals the structure of the heroic quest that underlies this misunderstood and frequently reviled novel.

Junot Diaz listen Download

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Junot Diaz Drown (Riverhead) Diaz' stories render the young-immigrant experience in harsh, unforgettable rhythms. Here Diaz discusses the art of telling the truth.

Sigrid Nunez listen Download

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Naked Sleeper (Harper Collins) Sigrid Nunez on gender and narrative strategy, the sub-genre known as the "woman's weepie."

Frank McCourt listen Download

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Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (Scribner) Memories have becomes trendy, but Frank McCourt's emotional masterpiece bucks the trend. A conversation about how this powerful work --...

Joan Didion listen Download

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The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf)   Part II of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los...

Joan Didion listen Download

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The Last Thing He Wanted (Knopf)Part I of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los...

Ellen Brodkey listen Download

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Ellen Brodkey This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey (Metropolitan Books) Ellen Brodkey, widow and editor, joins Bookworm in a memorial...

E. Annie Proulx listen Download

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Accordion Crimes (Scribner)In her newest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx presents an historical cavalcade: her vision of the violence that has been perpetuated against...

Thom Jones listen Download

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Thom Jones Cold Snap (Little Brown) More than a decade passed between the author's stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the publication of his...