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January 01, 1990 - December 29, 2012 + Bookworm
Javier Marias, Part II 
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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)Our conversation with Javier Marías continues. What if ten minutes of espionage took a hundred...
Javier Marias, Part I
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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)What if Henry James — the patron saint of convolution — could be resurrected? What...
Rita Dove
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Sonata Mulattica (Norton)
Beethoven once dedicated a sonata to a half-African musician—then revoked the dedication. Why? In her book-length poem, Rita Dove attempts an imaginative historical...
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
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The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams ComicArts)
TOON Books and Raw Books co-editors Spiegelman and Mouly tunneled through archives and private collections to create...
Jonathan Lethem
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Chronic City (Doubleday)
Jonathan Lethem began his career with Philip K. Dick-inspired science fiction, then he turned to writing the more realistic books that brought him...
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part II
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Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)
When Flats and Quake were published, the sixties were ending, and these novels can be said...
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part I
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Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)
In this first of two interviews, Wurlitzer takes us time-traveling back to the late 1960's when...
Barbara Kingsolver
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The Lacuna (Harper)
What do Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have to do with an invented author of Mayan and Incan historical romances?
Wallace Shawn
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Essays (Haymarket Books) and a play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors (Theatre Communicatons Group)Wallace Shawn’s newest play intermingles fact and fantasy in such a bizarre...
Orhan Pamuk, Part II
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The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)The Nobel Prize helped to set the fiction of Orhan Pamuk (and Turkish literature in general) in a contemporary global frame....
Orhan Pamuk, Part I
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The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)Infidelity and adultery are two of the great subjects of the novel tradition — think of Anna Karenina or Madam Bovary....
A.S. Byatt
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The Children's Book (Knopf)As the vast array of subjects presented in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book parades past — puppetry, women's rights, Fabianism, Peter Pan,...
Tao Lin
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Shoplifting from American Apparel (Melville House)
Although he has had five books published--two novels, a book of stories and two books of poems, Tao Lin is...
Brenda Hillman
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Practical Water ( Wesleyan)
Brenda Hillman's work has been described as difficult and experimental, but we beg to disagree. Here, we hear some of her most...
Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood
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Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel takes place simultaneously with Oryx and Crake — her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
