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Friday, June 26, 2009
All-American Poem (American Poetry Review)Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poet..
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (Pantheon)
Geoff Dyer on the secrets that structure his new novel (which
might, on the surface..
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Donât Cry (Pantheon)The extraordinary levels of empathy and sadness in Mary Gaitskillâs new stories provide the basis ..
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier ..
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Friday, May 29, 2009
The Loop (Dalkey Archive)
Jacques Roubaud describes the mesh of image and memory that makes up his fascinating, newly translated..
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
...on his translation of Pierre Martory's The Landscapist (The Sheep Meadow Press)
As John Ashbery remembers his early years in ..
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Shanghai Gesture (Two Dollar Radio)
Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films,
documents of "fr..
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obamaâs Presidential Inauguration (Graywolf); American Sublime (Graywolf)
When E..
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa's
v..
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Follow Me (Little, Brown)It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this novel
twists and turns, changes direc..
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Salvation Army (Semiotext(e))
In Abdellah Taïa's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded by
silence. Al..
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Friday, April 10, 2009
The Women (Viking)This richly layered conversation with T.C. Boyle centers on the subjects of art and arrogance. The Women
is a ..
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Eamon Grennan: Matter of Fact (Graywolf)Major Jackson: Hoops (Norton)Pattiann Rogers: Wayfare (Penguin)
Three poets join us on B..
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Friday, March 27, 2009
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks (Scribner)
Fact and fiction. Robin Romm has written a book of short stories and now a ..
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the..
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