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Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North Sep 25, 2014

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Flanagan’s Booker-nominated novel, titled after a travelogue written by 17^th century Japanese poet Basho, follows the building of the Burma-Siam Railway during WWII.

Joyce Carol Oates: Prison Noir Sep 11, 2014

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Our discussion of this anthology, written by incarcerated men and women, divides between the shocking realism of the stories and Oates’ experience as editor of the collection.

Donald Antrim: The Emerald Light in the Air Sep 04, 2014

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Antrim’s collection of stories stems from his own experience with psychosis; we all have our turn in the barrel, he notes, and sometimes you're really turned upside down.

Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part II) Aug 28, 2014

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What exactly made Ulysses so dangerous? Like an eye into the future, this difficult, all-consuming book still seems radical almost a century after its publication.

Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part I) Aug 21, 2014

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Kevin Birmingham delves into the history of censorship surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses for its seemingly seditious, immoral content.

William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part II) Aug 14, 2014

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William T. Vollmann has authored a wide array of works of nonfiction as well as fiction. Who is this literary chameleon, and where is his life’s work going?

William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part I) Aug 07, 2014

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Vollmann leads us to the “wall of ill” that separates life from death. We dissect Vollmann’s opening remarks to the reader, brimful of images both dark and sweet.

Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do? Jul 31, 2014

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Tillman says a writer shouldn’t be ahead of one’s time but ‘of’ one’s time. She wishes to open doors, break down barriers, and make us aware of how thoughts are formed.

Edward St. Aubyn: Lost For Words Jul 24, 2014

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St. Aubyn’s novel parodies the upsurge of interest in literary prizes: what do these prizes have to do with literature, and are the books that win ones we should read?

Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 Jul 17, 2014

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Prose’s protagonist, Lou Villars, is based on the athlete and Gestapo interrogator Violette Morris, who was photographed with her lover in a Parisian nightclub in 1932.

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