Bookworm

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Carolyn Chute Apr 04, 1994

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Merry Men The author of The Beans of Egypt Maine examines her development, tracing her attitudes toward poverty, politics and the writing of fiction.

Bob Ward Mar 28, 1994

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King of Cards Identity-formation and adolescent rites of passage are the themes of Ward---s fast-paced novel.

Stephen Wright Mar 21, 1994

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Going Native, Part II

Author Stephen Wright talks about the influence of the Black Humorists of the 1960's on his explosive 90's breakthrough novel.

Stephen Wright Mar 14, 1994

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Going Native, Part I
Drugs, violence and cartoons--in the novel by Stephen Wright that Bookworm nominates as the best of this season.

Bharati Mukherjee Mar 07, 1994

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The Holder of the World A discussion of multiculturalism, patriarchal literature and formal experimentation.

Paul Kafka and David Matlin Feb 28, 1994

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Love Enter; How the Night is Divided Two first-novelists discuss their first publications.

Rudolph Wurlitzer Feb 21, 1994

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Little Buddha
The experimental novelist of the sixties and seventies (Nog, Flats and Quake) discusses his screenwriting, from Two Lane Blacktop to Little Buddha, and the degeneration of experimental art goals in the nineties.

Edmund White: Jean Genet (Part II) Feb 14, 1994

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The author traces his fiction-writing career from the artistic aspirations of Forgetting Elena to the sexual politics of The Beautiful Room is Empty.