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Shauna Barbosa: Cape Verdean Blues May 24, 2018

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The poetry of Cape Verdean Blues is organic, melancholic, and gorgeous. Shauna Barbosa starts with feeling, shines with honesty, and questions everything.

Joyce Carol Oates: A Book of American Martyrs May 17, 2018

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Joyce Carol Oates discusses A Book of American Martyrs, a novel about what women are going to make of the American dream.

Leslie Jamison: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath May 10, 2018

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Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath is a book about the nightmare of feeling not enough, Jamison travels all 360 degrees of wanting to be the best and the worst, and has a great struggle to live in the middle ground.

Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room May 03, 2018

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Rachel Kushner discusses The Mars Room, a novel set in a women’s correctional facility, a dazzling novel full of surprising details that can’t be forgotten.

Carol Muske-Dukes: Blue Rose Apr 26, 2018

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Carol Muske-Dukes discusses her book, Blue Rose. The poetry is written at the highest level but it’s about daily life: poetry as life story.

Christine Schutt: Pure Hollywood Apr 19, 2018

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Christine Schutt says her writing takes place in a danger zone. In Pure Hollywood, one novella and ten stories, she writes beyond weird, at a level that both frightens and empowers.

Junot Diaz: Islandborn Apr 12, 2018

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Devastatingly beautiful, soulful, a fulfillment of a promise to his goddaughter, Junot Diaz’s Islandborn offers a new map into children’s books.

Lynne Tillman: Men and Apparitions Apr 05, 2018

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A novel trapped in the mind of a very unusual man. Lynne Tillman writes with wit that makes the reader dance.

Sean Penn: Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff Mar 29, 2018

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A transcendent apocalyptic satire, an outrageous improvisation of a book, embedded with the rhythms of American prose, Sean Penn discusses his first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.

Roberta Allen: The Princess of Herself Mar 22, 2018

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Roberta Allen says every truth can work as fiction. She discusses writing into the essence of a story. The Princess of Herself is interconnected stories of familiar but monstrous people not normally written about.

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