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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Bookworm

Ethan Canin listen Download

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Carry Me Across the Water (Random House) Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of...

Nick Hornby listen Download

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How to Be Good (Riverhead) Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, has made a shift: the gifted comic novelist has adopted...

Carol Muske-Dukes listen Download

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Life after Death (Random House)Carol Muske-Dukes began to write a dark comedy about death. Slowly, she discovered that compassion was reshaping her book,...

Micheline Aharonian Marcom listen Download

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Three Apples Fell from Heaven (Riverhead) Micheline Aharonian Marcom's stunning first novel imagines the Armenian genocide...

Ann Lauterbach listen Download

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If in Time, Collected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin) Ann Lauterbach believes that one of the primary functions of poetry is the demystification of the world's cliches and...

Ariel Dorfman listen Download

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Blake's Therapy (7 Stories Press) Ariel Dorfman describes his goal: to subvert the techniques of melodrama and thriller-writing in order to penetrate illusion and arrive at...

Carl Phillips listen Download

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The Tether (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Pastoral (Gray Wolf) Strongly influenced by the Metaphysical poets, Carl Phillips writes a mixture of erotic and devotional poetry...

Louise Erdrich listen Download

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Harper Collins) Louise Erdrich mixes elements of her German and Native American ancestry to create...

John Felstiner, translator listen Download

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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton) John Felstiner has produced a superb translation of works by the great Holocaust poet Paul Celan...

Nicholson Baker listen Download

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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Random House)Nicholson Baker has been on a crusade to preserve intact our books and newspapers. ...

John Balaban, translator listen Download

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Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong (Copper Canyon Press) Ho Xuan Huong was an 18th century Vietnamese poet and concubine. Poet...

Jack Fuller listen Download

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The Best of Jackson Payne (Knopf) A conversation with author Jack Fuller, who happens to be the president of the Tribune Publishing Company, and ...

Amitav Ghosh listen Download

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The Glass Palace (Random House)Amitav Ghosh's ambitions are Tolstoyan. He chronicles the tragedies of the British Empire in India and Burma. His...

Dagoberto Gilb listen Download

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Woodcuts of Women (Grove) Dagoberto Gilb's stories have enormous poetic vitality, yet he feels that he suffers from a lack of recognition. Has his...

Lois-Ann Yamanaka listen Download

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Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In this novel, the distance between autobiography and fiction is minimal. Lois-Ann Yamanaka is living...