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must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.

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Nick Laird

Glover's Mistake(Viking)In this novel of love, manipulation and deception,Nick Lairdattempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures a book so that readers come to understand things the characters remain blind to....

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[ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:20:21 EDT ]

Lorrie Moore

A Gate at the Stairs(Knopf)Lorrie Moorehas written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work, she has published a longer novel and survived to tell the tale......

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[ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:00:40 EDT ]

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Angel's Game(Doubleday)Spanish writerCarlos Ruiz Zafónhas attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers....

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:01:07 EDT ]

Dennis Cooper

Ugly Man(Harper Collins)Although we've followed the career ofDennis Copperfrom the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence?the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati....

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[ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction(Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what?s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor,Álvaro Uribe, andCristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers. ...

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[ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:17:00 EDT ]

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman

Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)Stephen Sondheimis right ? his new musical,Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwrightJohn Weidman, discuss the many revisions of the musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an American classic......

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[ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:41:00 EDT ]

Clancy Martin

How to Sell(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turnsout ? surprise! ? to be a philosophical novel about the problems ofappearance and reality......

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[ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

Colum McCann

Let the Great World Spin(Random House)Darkened by intimations of 9/11,Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novelbrings together the lives of strangers who witness a high-wire artistdancing between the two World Trade Center towers......

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[ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:04:17 EDT ]

Reif Larsen

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet(Penguin Press)Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything......

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[ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

Glen David Gold

Sunnyside(Knopf)What a charming raconteurGlen David Goldis, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War I......

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[ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:57:31 EDT ]

Eduardo Galeano

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone(Nation Books)Eduardo Galeanohas written a history of the world in brief chapters, each one devoted to an iconic incident......

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[ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:58:00 EDT ]

E. L. Doctorow

Homer& Langley (Random House)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....

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[ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:03:00 EDT ]

Jim Krusoe

Erased (Tin House Books)In this wild and woolly conversation,Jim Krusoereveals thathis zany, unpredictable, hilarity-inspiring novels are, well,descriptions of the human condition (at least as how he sees it)....

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[ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

Anne Waldman

Manatee /Humanity(Penguin Poets)Anne Waldmanguides us through this book-length poetry-and-prosemeditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremonydesigned to instill a deeper sense of compassion.......

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[ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

John Wray

Lowboy(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)John Wray's novel about a schizophrenic boy's quest for sexand/or love flirts violently with the thriller form......

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[ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:12:25 EDT ]

Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Wells Toweris the most talked-about new story writer to emerge on theliterary scene. This conversation focuses on the weird details he usesto illuminate a mostly conventional narrative arc......

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[ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:59:15 EDT ]

Matthea Harvey

Modern Life(Graywolf Press)Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides,Matthea Harvey'spoems careen into the unknown......

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[ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:11:39 EDT ]

Brad Gooch

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor(Little, Brown)While we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing, biographerBrad Goochdescribes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's innerlife....

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[ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58:21 EDT ]

Matthew Dickman

All-American Poem(American Poetry Review)Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winnerMatthew Dickmanwrites emotional and accessible poetry......

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[ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:28:27 EDT ]

Geoff Dyer

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi(Pantheon)Geoff Dyeron the secrets that structure his new novel (whichmight, on the surface, seem like two novellas).......

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[ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:58:03 EDT ]

Gary Indiana

The Shanghai Gesture(Two Dollar Radio)Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films,documents of "friendly" imperialism from the twenties to the forties),Gary Indianaconcocts the nightmare present ofThe Shanghai Gesture.....

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[ Thu, 14 May 2009 17:50:07 EDT ]

Elizabeth Alexander

Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obamaâs Presidential Inauguration(Graywolf);American Sublime(Graywolf)WhenElizabeth Alexanderpresented Barack Obama's inauguralpoem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United Statesthere had been only three previous inaugural poets......

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[ Thu, 07 May 2009 18:10:31 EDT ]

Yusef Komunyakaa

Warhorses: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hearKomunyakaa'svoice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and warsimultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in thispoet's vision of life....

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[ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:10:13 EDT ]

Joanna Scott

Follow Me(Little, Brown)It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this noveltwists and turns, changes direction and may even be inhabited by riverfairies......

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[ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:46:02 EDT ]

Abdellah Taia

Salvation Army(Semiotext(e))InAbdellahTaÃ¯a's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded bysilence. All sorts of behaviors are tolerated if they are not spoken of, an intolerable circumstance for a writer......

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[ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:20 EDT ]

T.C. Boyle

The Women(Viking)This richly layered conversation withT.C. Boylecenters on the subjects of art and arrogance.The Womenis a biographical novel, a fiction derived from the life of Frank LloydWright, focused particularly on Wright's up-and-down experiences withwomen....

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[ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]

A Whitman Tribute

Eamon Grennan:Matter of Fact(Graywolf)Major Jackson:Hoops(Norton)Pattiann Rogers:Wayfare(Penguin)Three poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read fromLeaves of Grass,describe Whitman's influence on their work, read their own poems, and,in general, paint a raucous, friendly, informal portrait of the GoodGray Poetâ America's greatest....

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[ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:27:10 EDT ]

Robin Romm

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks(Scribner)Fact and fiction.Robin Rommhas written a book of short stories and now a memoir arising from one central event: her motherâs gradual death by cancer......

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[ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:55:15 EDT ]

Frank Bidart, Part II

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)ForFrank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part Iof this interview aired March 12.)...

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[ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:37:00 EDT ]

Frank Bidart, Part I

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)The word most frequently used to describeFrank Bidartâs poetry is âintense.â (Part IIof this interview airs on March 19.)...

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[ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:06:09 EDT ]

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