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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Bookworm

Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly listen Download

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Big Fat Little Lit (Puffin)Back by popular demand! Editors Spiegelman and Mouly talk about how they recruited and supervised the many artists and writers who...

Carlos Fuentes listen Download

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The Eagle's Throne Carlos Fuentes casts a satiric eye on Mexican politics and, by extension, on global politics, skewering the art of politics in its...

Joyce Carol Oates listen Download

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High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 (Ecco) When you've written as many stories as Joyce Carol Oates, the process of choosing just sixty of them for an omnibus...

T.C. Boyle listen Download

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Talk Talk (Viking)When T. C. Boyle sits down to write a thriller, none of the usual rules apply. He starts with a young deaf woman,...

David Mitchell listen Download

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Black Swan Green (Random House) David Mitchell, one of the younger generation of British writers, provides a jolt of energy to the coming-of-age novel. First off,...

Irving Feldman listen Download

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Collected Poems: 1954-2004 (Schocken) During our conversation, Irving Feldman talks about everything from religion to cannibalism, from poetic diction to the structure of families. This...

Alice Quinn listen Download

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Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Alice Quinn,...

John Yau listen Download

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Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin)In a searching inquiry into the language of poetry, John Yau talks about avoiding autobiography while creating poetry that reflects his Chinese-American...

Leonard Cohen listen Download

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Book of Longing (Ecco) Leonard Cohen talks about his early years as a poet in Montreal; his novel, Beautiful Losers; his songs; and now, ten...

Yannick Murphy listen Download

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Here They Come (McSweeney's) Memory, instinct and aesthetics combine to recreate childhood in Yannick Murphy's new novel...

Barry McGovern listen

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Samuel Beckett, Three Novels, read by Barry McGovern, an 18-CD set (RT-- Radio). The centenary of Samuel Beckett---s birth is celebrated with a complete recording...

Elias Khoury listen

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Gate of the Sun (Archipelago) Lebanese Elias Khoury speaks of the years he spent developing his craft and maturing as a writer in order to...

Chip Kidd listen

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Book One, Work 1986-2006 (Rizzoli) Chip Kidd is one of the pre-eminent designers of book jacket art in publishing today. His designs have inspired...

Deborah Eisenberg listen

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Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The amazing Deborah Eisenberg has written some of the most astute and funny stories about American...

Ian Monk listen

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Writings for the Oulipo (Make Now Press); translator of New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel (Atlas) Oulipo is the school of literature that uses linguistic...