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January 01, 1990 - November 16, 2012 + Bookworm
Art Spiegelman 
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Open Me...I'm a Dog (Harper Collins)In this discussion of a "mind trip" for children, Art Spiegelman reads from his new children's book--with running commentary from the...
Don DeLillo
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Underworld (Scribner)
The infrequently interviewed Don DeLillo discusses his epic novel, particularly the movement toward sincerity and simplicity that characterizes the book's climactic chapters.
Jamaica Kincaid: My Brother
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A close look at the waves of passion and neutrality that comprise the style of this elegy on the death of Jamaica Kincaid's brother.
Deborah Eisenberg
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All Around Atlantis
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This unusual writer, who takes a full year to complete each story, has completed seven -- enough to fill...
Harold Brodkey Part 2
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The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.
Edmund White
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The Farewell Symphony (Knopf)
This final book of Edmund White's trilogy about gay life in New York provides gossip, tragedy and, of course, brilliant writing. But...
Cal Bedient
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Cal Bedient, Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) This book, the poet's first, comes as the culmination of years of criticism and teaching. Here, an in-depth discussion of...
Jim Krusoe
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Blood Lake (Boaz)Jim Krusoe's stories locate us between an episodic and choppy daily life and an interior world of unimaginably constant anxiety. How does this...
Susan Straight
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The Gettin'Place (Anchor)Susan Straight, chronicler of the underclass, can be counted on for rich character delineation and lots of atmosphere. In The Gettin Place, She...
Helen Vendler
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Helen Vendler The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard) Surprising and accessible, Vendler, one of America's most respected critics, separates the lovelorn Shakespeare who appears in...
Mona Simpson
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A Regular Guy (Vintage)
The search for family in Mona Simpson's novels is nearly a sacred quest...
Arundhati Roy
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The God of Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy talks about the price of success in India's literary circles - and about the "small things"...
Michelle Huneven
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Round Rock (Knopf) Michelle Huneven brings the worldly realism of John Steinbeck up to date in a new novel: a story of growth, compassion and...
Brian Hall
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The Saskiad (Houghton Mifflin) Brian Hall, the author of one of the great novels of adolescence, speaks about the sexual awakening of his narrator.
Alain de Botton
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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not A Novel (Pantheon) The "Stendhal of the dating scene" Alain de Botton talks about French literature, the virtues...
