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January 01, 1990 - December 07, 2012 + Bookworm
John D'Agata 
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Halls of Fame (Greywolf)
The inventor of a new style of lyrical essay writing, John D'Agata talks about the classical traditions he draws upon and...
Coleman Barks
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The Soul of Rumi (Harper San Francisco)
Rumi's ancient mystical poetry swings between ideals of transcendence and destruction. Coleman Barks explores the extreme polarities...
Jonathan Franzen
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The Corrections
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
When The Corrections appeared, it was immediately nominated as a candidate for The Great American Novel. Jonathan Franzen...
W. G. Sebald
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Austerlitz (Random House)What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in...
Joan Didion
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Political Fictions (Knopf)
We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for...
Richard Flanagan
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Death of a River Guide (Grove)
In this novel, a drowning river-guide in Tasmania relives his life as it recedes before him. Author Richard Flanagan...
David Means
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Assorted Fire Events (Context Books)
David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms...
Henry Bromell
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Little America (Knopf)
Author Henry Bromell, the son of a CIA agent, discusses the traps, secrets and patricidal rivalries that can turn father-son relationships into...
John Barth, Part II
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Coming Soon!!!
(Houghton Mifflin)
More on the spectacular fictional inventions of John Barth-including dual narrators, Muse-author collaborations, and stories so complexly interconnected that they mirror the...
John Barth, Part
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Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin)
A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions...
T. A. Shippey
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin) With the film of Lord of the Rings hard upon us, Professor Shippey recalls Tolkien and...
Salman Rushdie, Part II
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Fury (Random House)In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and...
Salman Rushdie, Part I
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Fury ( Random House)In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury. (Part...
Li-Young Lee
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Book of My Nights (BOA Editions)
Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls...
New American Short Stories
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Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton)
Three young writers,...
