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A. L. Kennedy Feb 25, 1999

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A. L. Kennedy &quotOriginal; Sin" (Knopf) The first American publication ofthis lively and quirky member of the new Scottish renaissance. Talk aboutthe war between the sexes! Better yet, talk about a powerful new voice.

Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman: Shakespeare in Love Feb 18, 1999

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Re-imagining Shakespeare's life as a high-flying farce in Shakespeare in Love. We talk about gender, comedic structure and challenge of putting Shakespeare on the screen.

David Remnick: King of the World Feb 11, 1999

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The new editor of the New Yorker on the techniques of the profile. How does one journalist master sports writing for his book on Ali, having won a Pulitzer for his anatomy of the new Russia?

Tom Wolfe Feb 04, 1999

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A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

As a New Journalist, Tom Wolfe infiltrated sub-cultures: the Merry Pranksters,U.S. Astronauts, New York painters. In his novels, he aims for the bigpicture -- the whole cultural machine...

Cathleen Schine Jan 14, 1999

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Cathleen Schine &quotThe; Evolution of Jane" (Holt) A comedy of manners turns into a nightmare of subjectivity. Cathleen Schine on moving from third-to-first person narration-that is, from manners to madness.

Mark Richard: Charity Jan 07, 1999

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Charity (Doubleday)
An extended metaphor describes Mark Richard's fiction: the world as a charity ward where the deformed, the anguished and the damned seek rescue--or is it redemption?

Howard Norman Dec 24, 1998

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The Museum Guard

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Howard Norman has won awards for his extraordinary, quiet fiction, but he has rarely discussed its meanings...

Dodie Bellamy Dec 17, 1998

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The Letters of Mina Hacher (Hard Press)

Post-modern feminism! Deconstructed Gothic horror! A character from Bram Stoker's Dracula meets the San Francisco literary scene...

Andrea Barrett Dec 10, 1998

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Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton). An Arctic expedition provides the setting for a confrontation between a reticent man of science and a raging egoist.

Michael Byers Dec 03, 1998

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Michael Byers, author of The Coast of Good Intentions (Houghton Mifflin). This young short-story writer makes a really impressive debut. A look at his landscape (Washington state's coastline) and his influences (&quotsteal; from the best").

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