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Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Sep 16, 2010

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books)

Maile Meloy’s stories go shooting off in such surprising and unpredictable directions that a reader might think, "every which way is the only way she wants it..."

Vendela Vida: The Lovers Sep 09, 2010

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The Lovers (Harper Collins/ Ecco)

Vendela Vida has crafted another mysterious and beautiful novel about a woman's identity. This woman, Yvonne, is middle-aged, the oldest woman whose tightly-knit personality Vida has unraveled so far.

Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks Sep 02, 2010

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First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song lyrics..

Craig Nova: The Informer Aug 26, 2010

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The Informer (Shaye Areheart Books)

Craig Nova has written a frightening novel about corruption in pre-Nazi Berlin. Especially frightening is Nova's perception that those times are so similar to ours...

Martha McPhee: Dear Money Aug 19, 2010

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Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In Martha McPhee's comic novel, a wizard of Wall Street promises he can change a novelist from a desperate bohemian into a "Master of the Universe," in a brief eighteen months. In this conversation, we explore the mis-marriage of aesthetics and greed...

David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Aug 12, 2010

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview with David Mitchell

Glowing front-page reviews and profiles proclaim David Mitchell to be "the real thing" and his new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House), a masterpiece.

D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic Aug 05, 2010

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Chronic (Graywolf)

The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers an impressive $100,000 prize to a poet entering the major phase of his/her career. We speak to this year's winner, D.A. Powell, and the chair judge, Linda Gregerson, to find out about poetry awards and how they are determined...

Jane Smiley: Private Life Jul 29, 2010

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Private Life (Knopf)

Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of a genius whose work never catches on, and the frustration of a wife whose husband never achieves his potential—and who barely discerns her own

Peter Carey Jul 22, 2010

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Parrot & Olivier in America (Knopf)
Australian-born Peter Carey celebrates his years in America with a larking, picaresque novel based on Toqueville's Democracy in America...

Aimee Bender Jul 15, 2010

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday)

A little girl is able to taste sadness in her food. Her brother, who has become emotionally withdrawn, is able to turn himself into inanimate objects. Aimee Bender shows how by using the techniques of fairy tales, legends and magic realism, her novels and stories about family dysfunction are transformed into narratives about growth and change.

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