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January 01, 1990 - December 09, 2012 + Bookworm
E. L. Doctorow 
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Ragtime (Plume)We look back on E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, its publication, its structure, its long-lasting surprises and its most recent transformation--as a work of musical theater.
Amy Bloom
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Amy Bloom Love Invents Us (Random House)Amy Bloom, a therapist by profession, candidly discusses her popular short stories and the challenges of writing her first...
Kenward Elmslie
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Kenward Elmslie Postcards on Parade (Bamberger Books) Elmslie is our singing poet. Here, the New York School icon rummages through his song book and comes...
Robert Stone
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Bear and His Daughter
(Houghton Mifflin)
These collected stories by Robert Stone anticipated developments in American fiction by at least a decade...
Orhan Pamuk
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The New Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's imagination evokes the powerful lure of fairy tales. His books bring the magic of childhood...
Vikram Chandra
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Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (Little, Brown) The Gods, virtues and storytelling of traditional Hindu culture are at the heart of the stories...
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain The Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford University Press) In honor of the publication of a twenty-nine volume set of Twain, Leslie Fiedler, Charles Johnson...
David Foster Wallace
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Little, Brown)On a luxury cruise or at a state fair, David Foster Wallace is an ideal reporter...
Literary Presses
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Literary Presses Serious literature faces a double crisis: the disappearance of funding and the indifference of mainstream publishing. A coalition of literary presses springs to...
Alan Warner
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Alan Warner Morvern Caller (Anchor) A member of the New Scottish Renaissance talks about the literary nature of the movement, as opposed to the drugs,...
Francine Prose: Guided Tours of Hell
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Francine Prose began her career in the magical-realist mode. Now her books are
cynical and dark. In Guided Tours of Hell she tells why.
Diane Johnson
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Le Divorce
(Dutton)
In this satire of American behavior abroad, Diane Johnson exhibits a lethal distaste for innocence.
John Irving
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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed (Ballantine) The usually reticent John Irving opens up in a conversation about his work -- ranging from considerations of...
Mitch Sisskind
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Closing the Circle A show about an implausible miracle -- a link between art and commerce. Closing the Circle is an Oulipean tale of air...
Melanie Rae Thon
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Melanie Rae Thon First, Body (Houghton Mifflin) Thon has been chosen as one of the top American writers under forty. A discussion of her stories...
