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January 01, 1990 - December 08, 2012 + Bookworm
Campbell McGrath 
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Pax Atomica: poems (Ecco)
Campbell McGrath has figured out how to perform a wonderful trick: he writes ecstatic comic poetry about the decline of America...
Christopher Sorrentino
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Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Christopher Sorrentino takes the Patty Hearst saga as the springboard for an exploration of the mass hypnosis of American culture. This...
Joyce Carol Oates
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Missing Mom (Ecco)
Joyce Carol Oates says this novel was written as a tribute to her mother, who died last year. Clearer, simpler, less literary than...
George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
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The author of The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp decided he'd try to write another satire-fantasy.
Colm Toibin
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The Master
(Scribner)
The winner of this year's Los Angeles Times award for fiction reveals the difficulties of writing about the life of Henry James...
Francine du Plessix Gray
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Them: A Memoir of Parents (The Penguin Press) After an affair with the great Russian poet Mayakovsky, Francine du Plessix Gray's mother married a...
Louise Erdrich
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The Painted Drum (Harper Collins)
Louise Erdrich's beautiful short novel emerged over a period of ten years, after an older story suddenly suggested deeper meanings...
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Never Let Me Go (Knopf)
Kazuo Ishiguro never tells more than he has to--his stripped-down narratives are filled with absence and mystery. In this science fiction...
Michel Houellebecq
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H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (Believer Books) The controversial French writer on his early influence, H. P. Lovecraft, the American writer of...
Umberto Eco
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
(Harcourt)
The loss of memory is Umberto Eco's subject here. After a stroke, an antiquarian bookseller remembers every book...
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
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The History of Love: A Novel (Norton)
Memory is the subject of many novels, but Nicole Krauss' subject is the transmission of memory: how do you...
Bret Easton Ellis
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Lunar Park (Knopf) Beginning as an autobiography, Lunar Park turns into a classic horror novel. The haunted house, however, is spooked by Bret Ellis- personal...
Bookworm Series Finale (Part 10 of 10)
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Maya Angelou believes that a writer who tells the truth can be read by anyone. James Baldwin, for example, can be enjoyed by black,...
Beyond Identity--A Dark Vision (Part 9 of 10)
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Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood and John Banville
Tom Wolfe discusses neuroscience and its view that there is no such thing as identity. Margaret Atwood talks about...
Hispanic Identity in Writing (Part 8 of 10)
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Sandra Cisneros and Nina Marie Martínez
The two Hispanic women explain how they've been put into the cage of multiculturalism, sometimes by the way they view...
