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January 01, 1990 - December 13, 2012 + Bookworm
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin 
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The author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter takes breathtaking risks in exploring a morally complex story. The protagonist is a renegade and convicted sex...
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
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We visited Harold Bloom to talk about his new book, but when you talk with Bloom, you talk about politics, poetry, teaching, aging, reading and...
Justin Torres: We the Animals
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This sequence of short stories, or prose poems, or vignettes (author Justin Torres is open to all three descriptions) adds up to a little novel...
Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
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Wilson's goofy, sweet-hearted first novel is about a family of performance artists. The Fang family's siblings are struggling to leave their parents behind in order...
Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
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Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of Héctor Tobar's new novel, is a nanny is accused of kidnapping her charges, when she is, in fact, taking them...
Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning
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Modern and post-modern art have gone up to a level of transgressive and theoretical border play that leave many viewers bewildered or repelled...
Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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The Bookworm learns about retro culture from a master of rock criticism. Simon Reynolds meditates on the aspects of global music that have led to...
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
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An explorer of sensuality and violator of taboos, Rikki Ducornet allows a predatory psychoanalyst to narrate her new novel...
Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
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Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems....
Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
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At age sixteen Jon-Jon Goulian started to wear women's clothes — he couldn't say why. At age forty he wrote this memoir to account for...
Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus
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After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus
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Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
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A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2
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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1
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The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious'...
UpClose: Sapphire
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's
publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."
