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January 01, 1990 - December 03, 2012 + Bookworm
Deborah Eisenberg 
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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
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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...
Susan Straight
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A Million Nightingales (Pantheon)Susan Straight's novel about slavery has a buried theme: the commodification of the body and the fetishizing of mixed-blood children. We explore...
Stephen Wright
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The Amalgamation Polka (Knopf)
Stephen Wright has written a Civil War novel and has mastered all the prose styles of classic American literature (Melville, Twain, Stowe,...
Dara Horn
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The World to Come (Norton)Dara Horn, a writer who specializes in Yiddish literature and culture, explores the metaphysical underpinnings of her new novel. We begin...
Elliot Perlman
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The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (Riverhead)An unusual interview in which Elliot Perlman (author of an impressive novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity) is asked to...
Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man without a Country (7 Stories)In his eighties, Kurt Vonnegut is still the magnificent satirist, critic, dreamer and grouch who has been astonishing us...
Jorie Graham
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Overlord (Harper Collins)
Jorie Graham, whose work is known for its depth and complexity, makes a plea for moral action...
Walter Kirn
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Mission to America (Doubleday)
Walter Kirn uses comedy the way a magician uses sleight-of-hand. His hilarity conceals sadness, his levity masks gravity.....
Octavia Butler
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Fledgling (Seven Stories Press) As a science fiction writer, the MacArthur Prize-winning Octavia Butler has taken the conventional elements of the genre and transformed them...
John Barth
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Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas
(Houghton Mifflin)
John Barth, a hero of the post-modern novel, talks about (among other things) heroism, the name "Fred" (which...
David Foster Wallace 
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Little, Brown)
David Foster Wallace insists on a conversation where what can be
said must be said honestly (along with a...
John Lahr
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Honky Tonk Parade: The New Yorker Profiles (Overlook)
John Lahr, theater critic for The New Yorker explains the autobiographical origins of his profiles. His father...
Tim Winton
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The Turning (Scribner's) Tim Winton has been declared a National Treasure in his native Australia. His characters are ordinary people defined by narrow economic choices,...
Myla Goldberg
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Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday)
Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, tiptoes toward an acknowledgement of her dark vision. She has written a novel in which almost...
