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January 01, 1990 - December 07, 2012 + Bookworm

Ron Padgett listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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

Frances Sherwood listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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,...