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January 01, 1990 - November 20, 2012 + Bookworm
Martin Amis 
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House of Meetings (Knopf)
Martin Amis has written a Russian novel--not just a Russian novel but a novel about the Gulags.
Vendela Vida
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Ecco)
The possibility that there are those who choose to escape or evade their identities enters our exploration of...
Gore Vidal
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Point to Point Navigation (Doubleday)
Using his recent memoir as springboard, Gore Vidal nimbly leaps from the history of prose narrative to the contemporary decline...
Isabel Allende
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Inés of My Soul (Harper Collins)
Isabel Allende uncloaks Inés, a shrouded figure from the chronicles of Chilean history. She was a conquistadora, a conspirator--but also...
Alice McDermott
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After This (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Alice McDermott is a writer who believes in loading each facet of her work with resonance and significance, while composing...
Brian Evenson
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The Open Curtain (Coffee House)
The mystery at the heart of The Open Curtain derives from a violent, concealed episode in Morman history.
Dave Eggers
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What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (McSweeney's)
Autobiography, epic, documentary, novel--Dave Eggers explores the many facets of his
protean new work.
Mary Gordon
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The Stories of Mary Gordon (Pantheon)
Mary Gordon
makes distinctions. She writes only about characters who interest her,
people she would be willing to meet and spend time...
Richard Ford
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The Lay of the Land (Knopf) is Richard Ford's third novel about Frank Bascomb, his sportswriter-turned-realtor.
Anne Carson
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books)
Anne Carson's translations of four plays by Euripides are dynamic, intense and were written to be...
Philip Levine
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Breath (Knopf)
Philip Levine reminisces about his childhood--about how a working class boy came to poetry.
Greil Marcus
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In this conversation about how America disappoints its prophets and...
Jennifer Egan: The Keep
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Jennifer Egan researched classic Gothic fiction to develop a style that would deepen the terrors at the core of her new novel...
Lynne Tillman
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American Genius: A Comedy (Soft Skull)
Lynne Tillman's haunting novel takes the form of an obsessive's
monologue--consciousness masks pain; first-person narrative conceals
repression...
Chris Adrian: The Children's Hospital
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Author Chris Adrian, a pediatrician and theologian, imagines a future in which a
children's hospital becomes an ark that survives the flood at the end
of the...
