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Oct 24, 2013 • 30min

Nicholson Baker: Traveling Sprinkler

Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies, you've got a novel.
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Oct 17, 2013 • 30min

Jonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens

Jonathan Lethem’s latest chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century.
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Oct 10, 2013 • 30min

Alexander Maksik: A Marker to Measure Drift

An aristocratic Liberian woman is left bereft and exiled on a remote Aegean island during her country's second civil war…
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Oct 3, 2013 • 30min

Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby

Part memoir, part literary criticism, part self-analysis, Rebecca Solnit's latest is an inter-genre meditation on the ways our lives are orchestrated by stories.
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Sep 26, 2013 • 30min

Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled

Van Dyke Parks on his multifaceted career as a lyricist, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, on the heels of his first studio album in nearly twenty years.
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Sep 19, 2013 • 30min

Russ Kick: The Graphic Canon, Volume 3

This garden of literary and visual delights, edited by Russ Kick, wondrously illustrates the arc of 20th century literature by over 80 graphic artists.
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Sep 12, 2013 • 29min

Mark Slouka: Brewster

Mark Slouka explores passion as an alternative to irony in the creation of dramatic, lyrical prose.
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Sep 5, 2013 • 29min

Margaret Atwood: Maddaddam

Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam completes the dystopian trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."
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Aug 29, 2013 • 29min

Cathleen Schine: Fin and Lady

Cathleen Schine says that she – and her writing – survive by seeing the humor in her life.
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Aug 22, 2013 • 30min

Peter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge

Peter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."

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