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- Alex GarlandThe Coma (Riverhead) Alex Garland explores the metaphysical underpinning of his pared-down skeletal novel. He feels he took a big risk and expects to be attacked. We offer him, instead, the possibility of being understood.30 min
- Craig NovaCruisers
(Shaye Areheart Books)
The dark precisions of Craig Nova's Cruisers provoke anxiety. Tension mounts; the book feels like a thriller, but one of a very high order...30 min - Karen Joy FowlerThe Jane Austen Book Club (Putnam) Karen Joy Fowler's comic romance is filled with sly references to Jane Austen's novels. Is Fowler paying homage or challenging Jane with this look at contemporary attitudes toward love and sex among a group of Janeites?30 min
- David Bezmozgis
Natasha and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
David Bezmozgis captures the lives of Jewish immigrants in Canada. The difficulty of starting a new life in a new place is reflected by the prose style, which is tough, spiky and even belligerent...
30 min - John Banville: Shroud
Michael Silverblatt flew to Dublin for the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day and night immortalized in James Joyce's Ulysses. He took the opportunity to talk with John Banville and poet Seamus Heaney...
30 min - Seamus Heaney
Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision...
30 min - Art Spiegelman
In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon)
Because Art Spiegelman lives within walking distance of the siteof the Twin Towers, his graphic novel about 9/11 captures the panickyrace to make sure his children are safe, that the world hasn't ended,and, most of all, to ensure that his dread and paranoia don't dissipatein easy ideas about "healing."30 min - Walter Abish
Double Vision: A Self Portrait (Knopf)
Walter Abish's most-admired novel, How German Is It, was written before the writer had ever set foot in Germany. This new book, non-fiction, finds Abish on German soil, defending his imaginary Germany...
30 min - Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Daydreaming Boy (Riverhead)
Micheline Aharonian Marcom explores the moral, cultural and sexual consequences of genocide...30 min - Jim ShepardProject X (Knopf); Love and Hydrogen
(Vintage)
Jim Shepard's fondness for the little guy, the day-dreaming Walter Mitty type is the focus of this conversation, leading to the big question...30 min
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