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January 01, 1990 - December 29, 2012 + Bookworm
Oscar Hijuelos

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A Simple Habana Melody (from when the world was good) (Harper Collins)
Oscar Hijuelos gives us a sentimental rumba-and a return to his first inspiration: Cuban...
Jonathan Safran Foer

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Everything is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin)
Jonathan Safran Foer's literary debut commanded lavish praise and immediate popularity. Some critics focused exclusively on its slapstick contemporary narrative...
Maya Angelou

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven (Random House)
Maya Angelou has completed her extraordinary autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Here,...
Viken Berberian

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The Cyclist (Simon & Schuster)
Viken Berberian's first novel attempts to take us inside the head of a failed suicide bomber, exploring his connection to the...
Lydia Davis

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (McSweeney's)
Lydia Davis' stories are miniatures. Acutely observed specificities are tautly rendered. Such intimate detail provides a keyhole view of...
Ian McEwan

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Atonement (Doubleday)
Ian McEwan explores both the technique and passion of his novel-his extraordinary assumption of a woman's voice and her malicious acts that violate the...
Edward Hirsch

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The Demon and The Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (Harcourt) Duende is like -soul,- an inner essence that aligns the...
Howard Norman

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The Haunting of L.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
At a certain point in this conversation, the author is referred to as "my ghost, Howard Norman..."
Jim Krusoe

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Iceland (Dalky Archive) Jim Krusoe pits his dear-but-doltish narrator against a surreal, disaster-prone universe, creating a unique comedy of the little man versus...
Jonathan Dee

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While writing Palladio (Doubleday) another of his complex novels of ideas, Jonathan Dee discovered his gift for creating complex human characters-and altered the course of...
Edna O'Brien

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In the Forest (Houghton Mifflin)
Edna O'Brien's predilection for darkness, Greek tragedy and the terrifying fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm achieves its riskiest manifestation...
Cees Nooteboom

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All Souls Day (Harcourt)
Although afternoon television talk shows have made us all too familiar with the stages of grief, Cees Nooteboom's philosophical novel...
Peter Carey

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True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage)Peter Carey captures the fated life of the Australian outlaw-hero Ned Kelly in thrilling run-on sentences: the world looms...
John Burnham Schwartz

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Claire Marvel
(Doubleday)
John Burnham Schwartz has written a contemporary romance, complete with obsession, nightmare and a
life-altering vacation in a deserted French barn-but with a...
David Mitchell

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Number 9 Dream
(Random House)
David Mitchell, a radiant and gifted young writer, places his work at the center of a barrage of influences...