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- Edwidge Danticat
The Dew Breaker (Knopf)
What happens when a Haitian "dew breaker" (torturer) moves to America and conceals his identity? In this collection of interrelated stories, Edwidge Danticat explores the twin legacies of torture and secrecy...
30 min - Chris AbaniGraceLand
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In Chris Abani's GraceLand, a teenage Elvis-impersonator in Lagos, Nigeria lives in poverty as he pursues an American pop-culture dream of success....30 min - David St. John
The Face (Harper Collins)
Rapid tonal shifts, teetering rhetorical mixtures of irony and self-pity, and overwhelming instability characterize David St. John's The Face, a novella in verse...
30 min - Octavia ButlerKindred (Beacon) Although Octavia Butler was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (-genius- grant-) in 1995 because of her science fiction, she does not consider her breakthrough novel, Kindred, to be sci-fi. Indeed, Butler celebrates the 25th anniversary of that book with a review of the many paradoxes that surround her work: contradictions and reversals that have placed her among the distinguished literary novelists of our time.30 min
- Benjamin Weissman, with editor Dennis Cooper
Headless (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic Books)
Dennis Cooper is editing a new-fiction series for Akashic Books. Benjamin Weissman's Headless is one of the first of the new releases. Together, writer and editor discuss the poles of Weissman's work...
30 min - Doris Lessing: The Grandmothers
Doris Lessing, one of our most sage and canny living writers discusses the real stories behind her fiction....
30 min - Rita Dove
American Smooth (Norton)
When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...29 min - Clayton EshlemanJuniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan) An exploration of Upper Paleolithic cave painting leads poet Clayton Eshleman to this meditation about hell and rebirth. This book, in poetry, prose and picture, marks the culmination of a thirty-year investigation of Pre-history.30 min
- James McCourt: Queer Street
Although camouflaged as a social history, James McCourt's "Queer Street" is a memoir of sexual initiation and awareness...
30 min - Maxine Hong KingstonThe Fifth Book of Peace (Knopf) A fire at home destroys her manuscript and reminds Maxine Hong Kingston of the firebombing of Vietnam. She extends the analogy of private loss and public tragedy to arrive at a novel whose purpose is to promote personal serenity and global peace.30 min
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