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January 01, 1990 - November 20, 2012 + Bookworm
James McCourt 
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Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey (Turtle Point)This big, hilarious and joyful book has been twenty-five years in the making. The best description of it...
David Plante
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ABC (Pantheon)
In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes leads unrelated victims to search for order. Mysteriously, the "order" they discover...
Ann Patchett: Run
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The family in Ann Patchett's Run unites rich with poor, black with white. The novel is a thriller—but the mystery at its heart is the...
George Saunders: The Braindead Megaphone
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This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, George Saunders-style and explores the construction of short fiction from the ground up.
Carol Muske-Dukes
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Channeling Mark Twain (Random House)This novel revives the belief that poetry has a close connection to personal and political liberation.
Steve Erickson
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Zeroville (Europa Editions)Steve Erickson's breakthrough novel is about the The Movies—not the movie business, not the wheels and deals—but The Movies themselves.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl, to air this...
Millard Kaufman
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Bowl of Cherries (McSweeney's)
Millard Kaufman has written a classic comic novel that belongs in the tradition that runs from Charles Dickens to Evelyn...
Ron Padgett
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffee House) Ron Padgett's intimate and affectionate biography-memoir of his friend of four decades, artist-poet Joe Brainard.
Robert Alter
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The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (Norton)
Biblical scholar Robert Alter faces a barrage of questions: What are psalms? Who wrote them?...
Junot Diaz
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
This wide-ranging yet intimate conversation explores many difficult subjects...
Veronica Gonzalez
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twin time: or how death befell me (Semiotext(e))
The heroine of twin time is a woman whose life is surrounded by mystery. Who is her father?...
Rupert Thomson
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Death of a Murderer (Knopf)
A factual series of murders provides the background for this novel: the
Moor Murders that haunted the British imagination in the...
Alice Sebold
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The Almost Moon (Little, Brown)
Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved and
lovable books in recent years. How did she prepare...
Ana Castillo
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The Guardians (Random House)
This is a novel about borders in which borders disappear: the border
between old and young, between secular and sacred, between states—but
not...
