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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + Bookworm
Robert Stone 
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Bear and His Daughter
(Houghton Mifflin)
These collected stories by Robert Stone anticipated developments in American fiction by at least a decade...
Orhan Pamuk
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The New Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's imagination evokes the powerful lure of fairy tales. His books bring the magic of childhood...
Vikram Chandra
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Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (Little, Brown) The Gods, virtues and storytelling of traditional Hindu culture are at the heart of the stories...
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain The Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford University Press) In honor of the publication of a twenty-nine volume set of Twain, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Johnson...
David Foster Wallace
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Little, Brown)On a luxury cruise or at a state fair, David Foster Wallace is an ideal reporter...
Literary Presses
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Literary Presses Serious literature faces a double crisis: the disappearance of funding and the indifference of mainstream publishing. A coalition of literary presses springs to...
Alan Warner
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Alan Warner Morvern Caller (Anchor) A member of the New Scottish Renaissance talks about the literary nature of the movement, as opposed to the drugs,...
Francine Prose: Guided Tours of Hell
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Francine Prose began her career in the magical-realist mode. Now her books are
cynical and dark. In Guided Tours of Hell she tells why.
Diane Johnson
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Le Divorce
(Dutton)
In this satire of American behavior abroad, Diane Johnson exhibits a lethal distaste for innocence.
John Irving
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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed (Ballantine) The usually reticent John Irving opens up in a conversation about his work -- ranging from considerations of...
Mitch Sisskind
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Closing the Circle A show about an implausible miracle -- a link between art and commerce. Closing the Circle is an Oulipean tale of air...
Melanie Rae Thon
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Melanie Rae Thon First, Body (Houghton Mifflin) Thon has been chosen as one of the top American writers under forty. A discussion of her stories...
Jamaica Kincaid: The Autobiography of My Mother
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Jamaica Kincaid, who grew up in poverty on Antigua, discusses the cultural contradictions of late capitalism and her ambivalent acceptance of American wealth.
Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
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The servant-girl novel, that staple of Victorian fiction, is reinvented by Atwood in her most compelling novel to date, "Alias Grace."
John Edgar Wideman
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The Cattle Killings (Houghton Mifflin) As a writer, John Edgar Wideman finds himself at the intersection of African-American experience and High Modernist experimentation. A...
