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Richard Ford Aug 08, 1996

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A summit conference on Richard Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, said to be full of arrogance and irony, is actually about compromise and sincerity.

Robert Bly Aug 01, 1996

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Robert Bly The Sibling Society (Addison Wesley)The relationship between interpretation and story-telling stands, in this conversation,for the relationships between meaning and action, old and young, responsibility and shallowness.

Grace Paley Jul 18, 1996

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Grace Paley The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The invaluable, funny, mischief-makerGrace Paley speaks of Jews, men, politics, children and the voices that have entered her permanent, memorable stories.

Barbara Guest Jul 11, 1996

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Barbara Guest Selected Poems; Fair Realism (Sun & Moon) &quotWhat; is Truth?" is the central questionof Modern Poetry. Barbara Guest approaches that question delicately, wittily and unpretentiously.

David Shields: Remote Jun 27, 1996

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Remote (Knopf)

Nicholson Baker Jun 20, 1996

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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Random House)

Duff Brenna and Jennifer Egan Jun 13, 1996

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Duff Brenna: The Holy Book of the Beard and Jennifer Egan: Emerald City and Other Stories

Jane Smiley Jun 06, 1996

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Moo (Ballantine)

Hans Magnus Enzenberger May 30, 1996

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Hans Magnus Enzenberger Civil Wars (The New Press) The eminent German poet and culture critic explores the future of literacy and literary culture. A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.

Zamora Zinmark May 23, 1996

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Zamora Zinmark Rolling the R's (Kaya Production) A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.