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January 01, 1990 - December 03, 2012 + Bookworm
A. S. Byatt

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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (Random House)Why do adults need fairy tales? What is, at its essence, the heart of a story? The answers...
Joyce Carol Oates

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Man Crazy (Dutton)
An unusually revealing conversation about female masochism and creativity: Oates on the harrowing of the flesh, penitence and salvation.
Art Spiegelman

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Open Me...I'm a Dog (Harper Collins)In this discussion of a "mind trip" for children, Art Spiegelman reads from his new children's book--with running commentary from the...
Don DeLillo

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Underworld (Scribner)
The infrequently interviewed Don DeLillo discusses his epic novel, particularly the movement toward sincerity and simplicity that characterizes the book's climactic chapters.
Jamaica Kincaid: My Brother

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A close look at the waves of passion and neutrality that comprise the style of this elegy on the death of Jamaica Kincaid's brother.
Deborah Eisenberg

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All Around Atlantis
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This unusual writer, who takes a full year to complete each story, has completed seven -- enough to fill...
Harold Brodkey Part 2

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The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.
Edmund White

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The Farewell Symphony (Knopf)
This final book of Edmund White's trilogy about gay life in New York provides gossip, tragedy and, of course, brilliant writing. But...
Cal Bedient

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Cal Bedient, Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) This book, the poet's first, comes as the culmination of years of criticism and teaching. Here, an in-depth discussion of...
Jim Krusoe

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Blood Lake (Boaz)Jim Krusoe's stories locate us between an episodic and choppy daily life and an interior world of unimaginably constant anxiety. How does this...
Susan Straight

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The Gettin'Place (Anchor)Susan Straight, chronicler of the underclass, can be counted on for rich character delineation and lots of atmosphere. In The Gettin Place, She...
Helen Vendler

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Helen Vendler The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard) Surprising and accessible, Vendler, one of America's most respected critics, separates the lovelorn Shakespeare who appears in...
Mona Simpson

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A Regular Guy (Vintage)
The search for family in Mona Simpson's novels is nearly a sacred quest...
Arundhati Roy

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The God of Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy talks about the price of success in India's literary circles - and about the "small things"...
Michelle Huneven

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Round Rock (Knopf) Michelle Huneven brings the worldly realism of John Steinbeck up to date in a new novel: a story of growth, compassion and...