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January 01, 1990 - December 07, 2012 + Bookworm
Ron Padgett

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You Never Know (Coffee House)
Ron Padgett tells the story of three writers who traveled from Tulsa to Manhattan and became the leaders of the...
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

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Jeffrey Eugenides' multi-generational novel in which a Greek-American family, replete with elements of Greek tragedy (incest, hermaphroditism), witnesses American history.
Kim Deitch

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The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Pantheon) In a special edition of Bookworm, Art (Maus) Spiegelman joins us to introduce Kim Deitch, -one of the best...
Jonathan Franzen

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How to Be Alone
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In this edgy conversation, author Jonathan Franzen and his interviewer take positions, argue, reverse positions and start again...
Mary Robison

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Tell Me (Counterpoint); Why Did I Ever (Counterpoint)
Mary Robison returns to her student days of writing stories for John Barth's workshop, and...
Sandra Cisneros

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Caramelo (Knopf)
In this moving interview, Sandra Cisneros reveals the connection between history and family history: the processes of memory....
Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates' I'll Take You There (Ecco) appears to be a novel about college in the 1960s and interracial dating. At...
Tristan Egolf

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The Skirt and the Fiddle (Grove) When young Egolf-s first novel, The Lord of the Barnyard, was published, he was compared to writers he-d never...
Michael Chabon

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Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax Books)
A magical conversation with Michael Chabon about children's literature...
Frances Sherwood

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The Book of Splendor (Norton) History, hilarity, romance and spirituality find a meeting place in the Prague of 1601. A simple Jewish orphan...
Paul Auster

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The Book of Illusions
(Holt)
Paul Auster expresses his preference for mysterious clarity over "clever" literary effects in The Book of Illusions, a metaphysical thriller about...
Nick Tosches

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In the Hand of Dante (Little, Brown)
Nick Tosches, a veteran tough guy, tells us what happens when the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy...
Adam Haslett

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You Are Not a Stranger Here (Doubleday)
Viewed together, the short stories in Adam Haslett's bravura first collection present a fugue of obsessions and concerns: mental...
Anthony Lane

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Nobody's Perfect (Knopf)
We pursue the New Yorker's critic through the dark woods of his literary and cinematic interests, finally emerging into a clearing as Anthony...
Mary Woronov

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Niagara (Serpent?s Tail) The Amazon dominatrix of Warhol-superstardom has become an impressive novelist, specializing in primal Noir fiction. Her feminist archetypes, her dangerous sexualized landscapes,...