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January 01, 1990 - December 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Janette Turner Hospital 
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Due Preparations for the Plague (Norton) Janette Turner Hospital's extraordinary fiction is beginning to gain recognition in America. Due Preparations for the Plague,...
Heidi Julavits: The Effect of Living Backwards
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Heidi Julavits' first book was a bleak novel. Her second book's vision is lighter, but the subject remains dark: a terrorist training cell…
Ahdaf Soueif
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The Map of Love (Vintage)
London-based author Ahdaf Soueif, praised as an "Egyptian George Eliot," describes the impact of middle-eastern and global history on her narratives....
Barbara Gowdy
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The Romantic (Metropolitan) This very intimate interview focuses on the adolescent desire for magic in romance and the adult discovery that it may...
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
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Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel makes a distinction between the playful, surprise-filled surface of his novel and its spiritual purpose...
Carol Muske Dukes
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Sparrow (Random House)This collection of elegies for actor David Dukes, the poet's late husband, inspires a conversation about death, role-playing and ghosts....
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
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Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (Harper Collins)A new Little Lit is always an event, and this one has work by...
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood on her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
Siri Hustvedt
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What I Loved
(Holt)
A harrowing subject: the child of an artist giving way to crime, drugs and dishonesty. A harrowing conversation with author Siri Hustved:...
Alice McDermott
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Child of My Heart
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
An unusually tender conversation with Alice McDermott about grace, imagined here as the act of putting others before...
Monique Truong
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The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin)
The Vietnamese cook in the famous Paris house of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas narrates Monique Truong's first novel...
Robert Stone
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Bay of Souls
(Houghton Mifflin)
Robert Stone's novel that features intrigue, romance, violence and voodoo...
Jane Smiley
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Good Faith (Knopf)
An ebullient book about fraud and deception-the eighties, Jane Smiley-style.
Don DeLillo (Part II)
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Cosmopolis (Scribner's) and The Body Artist (Scribner's)
In this, the second of a two-part interview, Don DeLillo explores his most enigmatic creation: the weird...
Don DeLillo (Part I)
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In Cosmopolis (Scribner's), the deadpan master of post-modern dysfunction-comedy takes an ordinary New York traffic jam and transforms it into a funeral procession that...
