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Bonnie Nadzam and Dale Jamieson: Love in the Anthropocene Oct 01, 2015

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Fiction writer Bonnie Nadzam and environmental philosopher, Dale Jamieson, worked together to write Love in the Anthropocene, a collection of five short stories that describe a very near future in which nature as we know it no longer exists.

Dodie Bellamy: When the Sick Rule the World Sep 17, 2015

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In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay form into poetry, personal memoire and literary analysis

William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II Sep 10, 2015

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The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War is the fifth book in Vollman's seven-book series about loss and transformation of the North American continent, this novel dramatizes a power grab disguised as a race war between Native Americans and settlers.

William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I Sep 03, 2015

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The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce. This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce.

Allison Green: The Ghosts Who Travel with Me Aug 27, 2015

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A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan Press.

Louisa Hall: Speak Aug 20, 2015

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Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test: how do we know if what we are communicating with via machine is human?

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets Aug 13, 2015

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Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley Aug 06, 2015

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In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.

Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman Jul 30, 2015

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Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

Linda Rosenkrantz: Talk Jul 23, 2015

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In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea to tape record her friends on the beach in East Hampton. The result was Talk, in which anything could become a subject for conversation – it was all discussed.

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