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John Murray listen Download

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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Harper Collins) A young doctor who has worked in developing countries, John Murray has written a collection of...

Lynne Tillman listen Download

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This Is Not It: Stories (D. A. P.) Lynne Tillman's startling stories attempt to discover new connections between art and reality...

Kate Moses listen Download

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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin-s) Kate Moses attempts and achieves the impossible: she weaves Sylvia Plath-s imagery and intensity into...

ZZ Packer listen Download

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead) With her extraordinarily confident language, newcomer ZZ Packer confronts issues of race, class and education that have flummoxed more-experienced writers...

Jessica Shattuck listen Download

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The Hazards of Good Breeding (Norton) Jessica Shattuck skewers the narrow-minded prejudices of the Boston aristocracy. How did Shattuck, the daughter of...

John D'Agata, editor listen Download

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The Next American Essay (Gray Wolf)This remarkable anthology presents a picture of what the American essay is, and what, with any luck, it...

William Gibson listen Download

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Pattern Recognition (Putnam) William Gibson, the inventor of cyber-punk, says that his new novel, though set in the future, is realistic...

Norman Mailer listen Download

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The Spooky Art (Random House) Norman Mailer, the lion at eighty, stayed lair-bound long enough to assemble this collection of his thoughts about writing..

Louise Erdrich listen Download

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The Master Butchers Singing Club (Harper Collins) For the first time, Louise Erdrich writes about the European side of her heritage. Her new novel...

Brian Hall listen Download

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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company (Viking) Brian Hall-s novel of Lewis and Clark turns the extraordinary expedition upside down to find...

A. S. Byatt (Part II) listen Download

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A Whistling Woman (Knopf)In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed...

A. S. Byatt (Part I) listen Download

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A Whistling Woman (Knopf)Dame Antonia Byatt began a quartet of novels twenty years ago with The Virgin in the Garden. She completes this huge...

Geoff Dyer listen Download

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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (Pantheon) A wild and beautiful writer, Geoff Dyer goes to Rome where he "basically did...

Colum McCann listen Download

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Dancer (Metropolitan) Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating,...

Hubert Selby, Jr. (Part 1) listen Download

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In the first of a two-part interview, Hubert Selby, Jr, now in his seventies, reviews and relives the tumult created by his debut novel, Last...