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David Remnick and Mary F. Corey: Through a Monocle May 06, 1999

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Social historian Mary F. Corey joins David Remnic, the new editor of the New Yorker, for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.

Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Mid-Century (Harvard). A social historian joins the new editor of the New Yorker for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.

Curtis White Apr 29, 1999

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Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive)

This novel describes a man who remembers his father mostly through the TV shows they watched together...

Marina Warner Apr 22, 1999

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Marina Warner &quotNo; Go the Bogeyman" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The dark side of fairy tales. A conversation about the cultural persistence of the threateners of children, ogres, cannibals, vampires and kidnapers-with a special guest appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Harry Mathews Apr 15, 1999

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Harry Mathews &quotOulipo; Compendium" (Atlas) Poet-novelist Harry Mathews discusses a unique literary movement and shows how strong emotion can penetrate even the most whimsical and arbitrary forms.

Bret Easton Ellis Apr 08, 1999

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Bret Easton Ellis &quotGlamorama;" (Knopf) He has been rejected by critics and reviled by Gen X, yet Bret Easton Ellis reaches to the core of an eerie American phenomenon: the postmodern fusion of terror and irony.

Mitch Sisskind Apr 01, 1999

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Mitch Sisskind &quotDivine; Deception: The Inner Gender of Gender" (Earl University Press) A maverick scholar unravels the secret hoaxes that have masked the sexuality of many authors of Western Literature-from the Bible to the internet.

Nuruddin Farah Mar 25, 1999

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Nuruddin Farah &quotSecrets;" (Arcade) An extraordinary conversation about the Somali author's language and family. The sounds of a mother's speech patterns initiate a web of recollection-magic realism from a deep, personal wellspring.

Kevin Killian Mar 18, 1999

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Kevin Killian &quotPoet; Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance" (Wesleyan/New England) Jack Spicer was the maddest, loneliest and most inspired poet on the Berkeley arts scene. His biographer makes sense of Spicer's techniques for rearranging the senses.

Irvine Welsh Mar 11, 1999

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Irvine Welsh &quotFilth;" (Norton) From anarchism (Trainspotting) to fascism (Filth): Irvine Welsh on his gallery of outsiders.

T. C. Boyle Mar 04, 1999

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T.C. Boyle Stories

(Viking)

T.C. Boyle describes the styles and attitudes that have earned him a trademark in the writing of short stories.