Bookworm

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Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown Feb 27, 2020

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Charles Yu’s "Interior Chinatown" has won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. In February 2020, Charles Yu spoke with KCRW's Michael Silverblatt in a live edition of Bookworm.

Translators Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell, and Katie Lateef-Jan: The Promise and Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo Feb 20, 2020

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A discovery readers have been waiting for, more Silvina Ocampo finally translated into English: The Promise and Forgotten Journey.

Tobias Wolff: This Boy’s Life Feb 13, 2020

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One of the first books within a huge movement that restored respectability to memoirs, This Boy’s Life celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, and Tobias Wolff celebrates thirty years since being on Bookworm.

Fanny Howe: Love and I Feb 06, 2020

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Love and I, poems by Fanny Howe, about love, the failure of love, and the transformation of love over the years.

Garth Greenwell: Cleanness Jan 30, 2020

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Garth Greenwell discusses seeking human truths by writing into an abyss, and his new novel Cleanness.

Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones Jan 23, 2020

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Daniel Mendelsohn’s Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones is an uncommon collection of essays that intertwine the personal with the intellectual and critical.

Jonathan Blum: The Usual Uncertainties Jan 16, 2020

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Jonathan Blum wrote characters with open destinies, in stories with open endings, for his new book of short stories, The Usual Uncertainties.

Ben Lerner: The Topeka School Jan 09, 2020

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Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04 find their synthesis in The Topeka School, the third in his Hegelian trilogy.