Alden Mudge
Content by Alden Mudge
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Cancer, a disease with tens of millions of faces, will require many biographers.
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Last year Karl Marlantes published Matterhorn, the best novel to date about American soldiers&rsquo
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On October 15, 2002, Sam Waksal, disgraced founder of ImClone, pal of Martha Stewart and the poster boy of corporate fraud, pleaded guilty to six federal charges.
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When Thisbe Nissen's mother read an early draft of her daughter's moody second novel about a disastrous summer at a dilapidated hotel in an island resort community, she called her daughter and wond
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Mohandas K. Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa.
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Part of what was so amazing about James Meek's highly praised previous novel, The People's Act of Love, was that it successfully combined an ambitious novel of ideas with an epic historical th
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Martin's amazing new novel Trespass tells an emotionally and politically charged tale of the elemental conflicts that are stirred to life when Brendan and Chloe Dale's only child, Toby, falls in love with a Croatian refugee named Salome Drago.
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While working on Strength in What Remains, the excruciating and ultimately uplifting story of a survivor of the genocidal conflict in Burundi and Rwanda, Tracy Kidder violated one
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For a time before the Civil War, Reuben Hyde Walworth was one of the most powerful men in the United States.
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She thought she had mono. Then she decided she was bipolar. To her disgust, a famed New York City neurologist told her that she simply worked too hard and drank too much.
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We moderns often view the past through the warm mists of over-idealization or the dark clouds of easy condemnation. The past is either impossibly great or astonishingly primitive.
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Since the early 1990s, violent crime in New York City has dropped so precipitously that officials now call their city the Safest Big City in America.
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Among the many pleasures of Julia Glass' marvelous first novel, Three Junes, are the numerous small, brilliantly rendered moments the gestures, objects and places that suggest the large
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A reader might speak of Richard Ford’s haunting and uplifting new novel, Canada, in terms of magic, mood and morality. But Ford himself talks about the novel he has been thinking about for 20 years mostly in terms of technique: diction, sustaining an illusion and obsessive devotion to the hard work of his craft.
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Novelist Brian Hall was already "emotionally committed" to writing a novel about the Lewis and Clark expedition when the long shadow of Stephen Ambrose's magisterial history of the expe
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Although novelist Mark Dunn considers himself "an inveterate New Yorker," he's lost none of his soft Tennessee accent during the 15 years he has lived and worked in the Big Apple.
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Kevin Starr calls the Golden Gate Bridge America’s greatest bridge. It’s a debatable point.
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Time has moved in mysterious ways for writer Howard Bahr.
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Summary and compression cannot come close to capturing the moment-by-moment beauty of Marilynne Robinson's third novel, Home.
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Like many of us, historian Joseph Ellis long considered George Washington a distant, almost unapproachable icon, "aloof and silent, like the man in the moon." Then Ellis began research f
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Gary Shteyngart thinks it might be time to buy a desk. Not as a reward for finally completing his super sad, super funny third novel.
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It's a relief, really. Mary Gordon seems no more inclined to answer deeply personal questions than I am to ask them.
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In conversation, writer Scott Smith is such an appealingly modest Midwesterner, you wonder how it is that he is thriving in megapolitan New York City.
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Novelist Richard Russo had no doubt that he should write a book about the close and emotionally complicated relationship he had with his mother. The question was, should he publish it?
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Roger Hobbs knows that his parents and sister are proud of him. He’s just not completely certain they’ll read his edge-of-the-seat detective thriller Ghostman, published this month with much fanfare—and a movie deal—less than two years after he graduated from college.
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They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and the experience of writer Lisa Fugard seems to prove the adage.
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Be careful what you let your children read.
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Then We Came to the End, the debut novel by Joshua Ferris which has—deservedly—inspired so much prepublication buzz?
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In a postscript to Gun Guys written after the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School (and after his manuscript had gone to galleys), Dan Baum offers “three modest suggestion
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No contemporary American writer is better at conveying the complex personality of a place than Annie Proulx.
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I had forgotten what a rushing torrent of words spills from Charles Siebert's mouth when his passions are up. I had forgotten how casually he drops arresting metaphors into normal conversation.
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During Pat Conroy’s sophomore year in high school, a charismatic English teacher told him that he should read 200 pages a day.
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It’s not often that an encyclopedia is a popular success.
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African orphan transforms the life of a foreign correspondent Neely Tucker, a foreign correspondent for The Detroit Free Press and Knight Ridder, was transferred in 1997 from his post as a
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In the wave of praise that will soon greet Samantha Gillison's near-perfect novel, The King of America, much will be made of Gillison's debt to the story of Michael Rockefeller's life and d
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Michael Sims promised his friends that writing Adam's Navel would put an end to his frequent and, shall we say, enthusiastic communications about the latest set of whizzbang facts and odditi
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Months before he completed what would become his 1995 award-winning bestseller A Civil Action (and years before it was turned into the hit movie starring John Travolta), Jonathan Harr ran ou
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Tucked away in the closet of Michael Simon's New York apartment is a roll of butcher paper that measures roughly three feet wide and 16 feet long.
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After the unexpected success of his first novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini decided to focus his second book on a part of Afghan society often obscured from public view its women.
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Over the years, Pete Dexter's hard-edged novels have been widely praised for both the riveting stories they tell and the sparkling clarity of the sentences with which they are told.
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At first blush it is a surprise to hear Ann Patchett say, "I do think of myself as a social and political novelist." Her previous novel,
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With her superb third novel about to arrive in bookstores, does Ruth Ozeki think of herself as creating a body of work, an oeuvre, so to speak?
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In The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, leads the general reader on an excursion to the farthest and most mind-bending rea
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Some months after he won the Pulitzer Prize for his dazzling first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz overheard a friend telling other friends: Listen, Junot won the Pulitzer Prize and we never had a party, we never went out for drinks, he like never mentioned it!
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James Frey has never been shy about his towering literary ambition.
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Just before his 30th birthday back in 1999, Canadian Andrew Davidson realized with a start that he had not yet lived in another country.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Atkinson left the Washington Post in 1999 “to raise my game, to become a historian and use the longer lens of history” to write about World War II in Western Europe. He didn’t know that it would be 14 years before he typed the final words of The Guns at Last Light, the brilliant, more-than-worth-the-wait final volume of his epic Liberation Trilogy.
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From the cabin where he wrote the 10 remarkable short stories collected in The Hermit's Story, Rick Bass has a view of "a vibrant, bug-and-bird-seething marsh." The cabin "
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I reach Oliver Sacks at a hotel in Ithaca, New York.
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The gods of ancient Greece and Rome were not, shall we say, moral exemplars.
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As evident from his book’s subtitle, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York,” Richard Zacks has a pleasingly colorful writing style.
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Five or six years ago, Da Chen got badly bitten by the writing bug. He had finished Columbia Law School and moved on to the Wall Street firm of Rothschild, Inc.
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When Karen Russell was “lost in the swamp” of composing Swamplandia!—her outlandish and haunting first novel about the Bigtree family of Florida alligator
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If the extraordinarily gifted writer Allegra Goodman is pursued by demons, they must be sprites of comedy rather than the harpies of despair, which haunt so many other novelists.
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Erik Larson, author of the nonfiction bestsellers The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck and Isaac’s Storm, believes he has the “tiniest office in the wor
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For the past 15 or so years, novelist Jonathan Franzen has been engaged in friendly literary competition with David Foster Wallace, whom Franzen describes as his "main rival and dear friend.
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As if you don't already have enough to read!
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Nine hundred pages? What was Vikram Chandra thinking?
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Life has changed a bit for Diane Johnson since the 1997 publication of her novel Le Divorce, a social comedy about a young American woman in Paris.
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After 40 years of marriage, writer Joan Didion did not have a single letter from her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne.
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"His voice sounded like a record played at half speed. It was slow and creaky. I was three thousand feet below him.
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On January 16, 2009, as the three-week-long Israeli Army assault on the Gaza Strip that was intended to stop Hamas rocket attacks was winding down, an explosion ripped through a bedroom in the apar
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The writer Edmund White once told Nell Freudenberger it takes maybe 15 or 20 years to write about an experience. “So in terms of writing about marriage, I’m definitely jumping the gun,” says Freudenberger, laughing, during a call to her home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Novelist Joanna Hershon says she has always wanted to write about her father and baseball. Until a few years ago, her father was the official doctor for the New York Yankees; he is now the team’s senior medical consultant.
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Ten years ago Edward Hoagland, who had been legally blind for three years, underwent a series of risky—and, ultimately, successful—operations to restore his sight.
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Much has happened in the life of Jhumpa Lahiri since she was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, an exquisite collection of short stories whose cen
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For 25 years Andre Dubus III has been trying to get one story off his chest.
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Worried about what to eat? Michael Pollan's new "eater's manifesto," In Defense of Food, offers remarkably simple, practical advice on the question.
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Some novels percolate in their authors’ minds for years. In the case of Eleanor Morse’s superb third novel, White Dog Fell from the Sky, the brew-time was at least a dozen and possibly as many as 40 years.
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With the publication of Liar's Game, his fifth novel, Eric Jerome Dickey is being touted as "one of the original male voices in contemporary African-American fiction." It's
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In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Most of us know that.
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Nine years have passed since the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s monumental novel The Corrections.
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A third of the way into Russell Banks' powerful new novel, The Darling, Hannah Musgrave travels to a remote tribal village in Liberia to meet the family of Woodrow Sundiata.
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Oscar Hijuelos ends his appealing memoir Thoughts Without Cigarettes in 1990, shortly after he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Son
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Elena Gorokhova’s transformative moment as a writer came in 2004 when she enrolled in Frank McCourt’s memoir class at the Southampton Writers Conference.
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According to Janet Fitch, the overwhelming success of her previous novel White Oleander, an Oprah pick, was a mixed blessing.
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Yes, Virginia, there really was a man named Birdseye behind the Birds Eye® frozen food brand.
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How is it that despite an international outcry, the displacement of nearly two million people and the murder of upwards of half a million more continues to this day in Darfur?
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Thirty-three-year-old Lauren Groff calls herself a “soft-label” Luddite. She thinks the best decision she and her husband made when they moved to Gainesville, Florida, was not to own a television.
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Four years ago, Gen X journalist and essayist Meghan Daum surprised just about everyone by abandoning New York for the "less literary pastures" of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Back in the late 1970s, when Jeff Lindsay was in graduate school in theater at Carnegie Mellon, he had a directing teacher from Romania who had a concept called "illegal laughter." &qu
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"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had," says David Guterson.
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Until she moved to Columbus, Ohio, to pursue an M.F.A. in creative writing, Claire Vaye Watkins couldn’t imagine writing a story set in her home state of Nevada. Her early stories of young lovers and parents tended to be set in exotic locales like Hawaii, where, according to family mythology, her relatives ran a “mango-cum-pot farm.”
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On most mornings when she is not teaching or "church hopping," Elizabeth Strout is at the kitchen table writing by hand.
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On September 11, 2001, Jane Smiley was roughly 280 pages into a first draft of what would eventually become her 11th novel, Good Faith.
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Urged on by pleas from middle-class readers of her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich launched a new book project that she hoped would do for white-collar work what N
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John Updike, whose provocative 22nd novel, Terrorist, tells the story of an 18-year-old, New Jersey-born suicide bomber, attributes his remarkable productivity to the way he has arranged hi
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In conversation, Ha Jin displays a remarkably playful sense of humor about the smallish absurdities of life.
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Geerat Vermeij calls his new book, The Evolutionary World, “a personal, and in many ways unconventional book.” It is that, and it is a marvel.
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Readers familiar with Hari Kunzru's provocative articles in Wired magazine will be surprised by the historical setting of his dazzling first novel, The Impressionist.
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Since well before the Gold Rush, restless people have traveled west—to California—to escape friends, families, even history itself so that they could reinvent themselves in keeping wit
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Early 20th century detective novels served as the inspiration for the masterful new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author best known for his portrait of a loyal butler in The Remains of the
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Having catapulted over my handlebars on too many occasions to count (with two broken collarbones to mark my mishaps) and having met my share of dogs, coyotes, peacocks, cougars, bears and bulls on
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How does a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter overcome a lifelong fear of animals? By writing a captivating newspaper series about Tampa Bay’s Lowry Park Zoo, to begin with.
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Among the recurrent refrains that lend power and poignancy to writer Jim Harrison's magnificent literary memoir, Off to the Side, is the phrase "it could have been otherwise.
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"I hold a novel accountable for a good story," says John Irving during a conversation about A Widow for One Year, his ninth and most intricately crafted novel yet.
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For almost 20 years Stephen L. Carter has been carrying a powerful character around in his imagination.
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A surprising sidebar to the publication of Mark Spragg's exceptional second novel, An Unfinished Life, is the fact that the movie version of the story will be in theaters at Christmas.
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During a telephone conversation from his office in New York, Louis Begley quickly rattles through an impressive list of other writers who began publishing late in life.
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Tom Perrotta is often called a satirist. It’s a nice, neat label, as square-cornered as a pigeonhole. But it’s just not true.
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In January 2011, a month before he turned 64, Paul Auster began working on Winter Journal, his remarkable meditation on “what it has felt like to live inside this body from t
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When Louise Erdrich finished writing The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, she went back and read through the works of William Faulkner.
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For a book whose author says casually that "this is a novel where not very much happens," The Story of a Marriage contains enough surprises that an interviewer must tread carefull
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Controversy surrounding Greg Mortenson's writing and his charities is making headlines. Read our 2009 interview with Mortenson, which discusses his school-building efforts and his role in promoting the books.
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The end of Yann Martel’s extraordinary new novel, Beatrice and Virgil, is
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About four years ago, just before he began work on his beautifully written second novel, The Storm at the Door, Stefan Merrill Block installed a new black-and-white checkered floor in the apartment kitchen where he writes. The floor is now seriously chipped around his writing desk and darkly stained near the coffee pot.
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In his first book, the widely and deservedly praised Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis tweaked the noses of the powers-that-be at the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers and apparently prov
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In his first book, the widely and deservedly praised Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis tweaked the noses of the powers-that-be at the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers and apparently prov
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It's not as if Anne Tyler's life is a closed book. Curious readers can find 25-year-old interviews with her on the Internet.
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After publishing two unforgettable collections of short stories (Fitting Ends and National Book Award finalist Among the Missing), Dan Chaon decided several years ago that it was time
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Francisco Goldman’s wife, Aura Estrada, died in a body-surfing accident in Mexico on July 25, 2007. A talented writer and literary scholar, she was 20 years younger than Goldman and had just turned 30. The couple had been married “26 days shy of two years.” Say Her Name is Goldman’s expression of his love for Aura and his devastating guilt and grief over her death.
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In The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes, Marcus Sakey has written a seriously good thriller. Really good. So of course we can’t tell you too much about it.“It drives me crazy when people [he means reviewers] give away all the stuff I worked so hard to make surprises,” Sakey says during a call to his home in Chicago, where, he reports, “life is a little chaotic.”
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For the past several years, writer Walter Mosley has been exploring and experimenting.
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Contrary to what grade-school legends would have us believe, the first Thanksgiving was not celebrated in late November; most likely it occurred at the end of September or in very early October.
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People who know Teri Coyne's work as a stand-up comedian are going to be very, very surprised by her intense, emotionally wrenching first novel, The Last Bridge. There are many goo
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Maybe you lack the instinct for self-promotion. Maybe you can’t muster your employer’s rah-rah-rah-sis-boom-bah attitude.
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Adam Gopnik arrived in New York City from Montreal in 1980 "with a satchel full of ambitions." First among them was the dream of becoming a songwriter.
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While she was being “wildly irresponsible”—writing her first novel, Still Alice, instead of going back to work at a high-powered Boston consultancy firm—Lisa G
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Thomas Sanchez is convinced that the type of novel he spends years and years writing has fallen out of fashion. "We're in a very cynical time in America," he says.
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When David Maraniss finished his much-praised biography of baseball superstar Roberto Clemente (Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero), he was "determined not to write
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"'Gyp the Blood' was a real person who actually used to break men's backs on a two-dollar bet!" says historian Kevin Baker about the most malevolent character in his novel, Dreamland.
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Who says you can’t judge a book by its cover?
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John Irving did not actually attend his induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma, some 15 years ago. But now he wishes he had.
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Since the publication of his surprise bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain has become a kind of spokesperson and inspiration for the rowdy, subversive, slightly deranged subcul
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In her riveting memoir about her hardscrabble childhood, The Glass Castle (2005), Jeannette Walls described being severely burned while boiling hot dogs when she was three years old.
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Most of us know that eyewitness testimony is often inaccurate. But what about our own memories?
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The Kellerman household seems to be in a state of controlled uproar on this particular afternoon. Faye Kellerman is leaving in the morning for a nine-day book tour in Germany.
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Richard North Patterson has grown a bit discontented with the praise heaped upon his recent best-selling novels.
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Midway through our conversation about Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux reminds me that during the 15 years in which he wrote the 49 travel essays and articles collected here, he also wrote a ma
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Two-thirds of the way through the writing of her luminous first novel, Mother of Pearl, Melinda Haynes started working on a second novel.
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Her closest friends call her by her initials: A.M.
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“Maps hold a clue to what makes us human,” Simon Garfield writes in the introduction to his lively, loose-limbed exploration of our seemingly tireless quest to visually represent the la
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It has the subtitle Politics in the Clinton Years. Trouble is, in the week since first arranging to talk with newspaper columnist Molly Ivins about You Got to Dance with Them What Brung
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In our story for today, there is a book, there is a project, and there is a friendship. Let's start with the friendship.
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Adam Hochschild has the rare ability to take seemingly dull, dry or depressing events of history and turn them into a riveting narrative that both deepens a reader's understanding of the past and d
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Adam Johnson’s five North Korean minders didn’t know what to make of him.
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Like other gifted writers of his generation, James McBride has the enviable capacity to enlarge and complicate his readers' understanding of what it means to be human.
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Late last year, when Gary Kinder read about some guy named James Cameron and a forthcoming movie called Titanic, he was devastated.
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Name recognition just wasn't an issue when Winston S. Churchill began a 27-year career in Parliament in 1970.
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"Orgies in a world ruled by fate are not as much fun as you might think they would be," Thomas Cahill says during a call to his residence in Rome, where he and his wife now live for abou
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No one is more surprised by the success of her first two novels - The Sparrow and Children of God - than Mary Doria Russell.
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After Waiting for Snow in Havana unexpectedly won a National Book Award in 2003, Carlos Eire began hearing from schools asking him to apply for jobs teaching Cuban history.
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Cities of the Plain is eagerly awaited final novel in Cormac McCarthy's magnificent Border Trilogy.
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Voter turnout is in steep decline. Public policy debates grow ever-more uncivil. Even mainstays of civic life like the PTA struggle to maintain members.
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Take a walk on the dark side of the season Don't even ask me about my favorite movies!
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The bio on the cover of this frequently provocative, usually informative, and always entertaining saunter through the history, culture, and strange obsessions that have evolved right along with our
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Although Richard Russo believes he is "essentially a comic novelist" and his big, lively fifth novel, Empire Falls, is often very, very funny, we don't get around to discussi
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Leif Enger's novel, Peace Like a River, is generating enough pre-publication buzz that it is already being compared to Charles Frazier's 1997 surprise National Book Award winner, Cold M
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"You didn't ask the question everybody else seems to be asking," Monica Ali says at the end of our conversation about her second novel, Alentejo Blue.
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For his marvelous fourth novel, Black Swan Green, David Mitchell decided—in a way—to write a first novel.
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Sometime in the not-too-distant future Téa Obreht plans to move to New York City.
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When the long-awaited collapse of apartheid in South Africa ushered in democratic elections in 1994, some readers feared that Nadine Gordimer's fiction would lose its inventive energy and moral f
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Ron Rash believes that “almost all of the great books are regional books.” What, he asks, “could be more regional than James Joyce’s Ulysses,” which unfolds during a 24-hour ramble through Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904?
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"This is the best time of a writer's life," Molly Giles says by telephone from Hawaii.
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One of the many pleasures of Dog Days, Jon Katz's latest collection of "dispatches" about life on his 110-acre farm an hour or so north of Albany, New York, is witnessing a pers
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A World War I-era photograph of Boston socialite artist Anna Coleman provided the spark for Jody Shields' new novel, The Crimson Portrait.
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With simultaneous publication in the U.S., Australia and the U.K., Steve Toltz's first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, is about to make a big splash. And why not?
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During pre-publication readings from her sometimes lyrical, sometimes mournful, always enthralling 12th novel, Goldengrove, Francine Prose was amazed to hear her listeners laugh.
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You would expect a book about hippies to be visually exciting, titillating even.
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The prolific Larry McMurtry has written essays, screenplays, memoirs and 27 novels, including the fabulous Lonesome Dove.
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First-time novelist Robert Hough was not the kind of boy who dreamed of running away with the circus.
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Since the publication of his beautiful memoir of growing up in Montana, The House of Sky (1979), Ivan Doig has been hailed as a great Western writer.
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The spirit that animates - or at least haunts - Deborah Baker's excellent account of the Beats in India, A Blue Hand, is not the spirit of its main protagonist, the troubled, sweet-natured
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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was a moral blot that was second only to the stain of slavery on American ideals of liberty and justice for all.
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When Sigmund Freud and William Halsted began experimenting on themselves with cocaine in the 1880s, “addiction” was not yet a medical diagnosis.
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Some years ago, while following one of the blind alleys that writers so often encounter when hunting anxiously for their next "big book idea," Erik Larson stumbled across the gruesome pa
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Author Susan Orlean says she “certainly did not set out to write a book about a dog.” And, in a way, she hasn’t.
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About four months into the composition of her outstanding 14th novel, The Round House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Some years ago Marianne Wiggins told an interviewer, "Ours is an age dominated not by the written or printed word but by visuals; they define our experience, even how we process our life's h
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That earthquake you felt a week or so back? It had nothing to do with fault zones, volcanoes, or continental drift. Nope. This was strictly a book publishing phenomenon.
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There is the faintest whiff of the moralizer in the final pages of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's short but stunning new novel, A Mercy.
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You would think that a novelist who has twice won the prestigious Booker Prize (and seems a reasonable candidate for a third, given the breathtaking accomplishment of his newest novel, My Life
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For her inventive second novel, The History of Love, Nicole Krauss set herself "two small personal rules." The first was that she wouldn't do any research for the book.
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Colson Whitehead has a problem—a big problem. He can’t stop thinking about zombies, even when he’s asleep.
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There is a moment in Pat Barker's excellent new novel Life Class when Paul Tarrant, a conflicted young artist serving in France in the ambulance corps at the outbreak of World War I, stares
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In To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild pairs an account of British soldiers at war in France during World War I with a report of the efforts of pacifists and war resisters back home i
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The miracle of Last Train to Memphis, Peter Guralnick's portrait of Elvis Presley's early years, was that it erased the memory of that bloated caricature of a performer who staggered acros
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The older Philip Roth gets - he is 73 - the more skillful, economical, perceptive and quietly daring his novels become.
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Peter Englund is “an academic historian by training” and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which each year awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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During the dog days of last summer, as the national press corps went baying after the elusive Gary Condit, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece called &quo
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At more than 1,200 pages and almost exactly four pounds, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is the hefty tome against which all other hefty tomes are weighed and measured.
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To complete his hugely ambitious trilogy of historical novels about the 20th century, Ken Follett has set himself a punishing writing schedule. Lucky for us.
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A conversation with Chris Bohjalian about his gripping new novel, Secrets of Eden, is sprinkled with unexpected observations and self-revelations.
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In Bloody Crimes, James Swanson returns to the historical vicinity of his 2006 bestseller Manhunt.
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There is something different, something a tad experimental about John Irving's newest novel, The Fourth Hand.
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Not long after the publication of his brilliant and widely acclaimed first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer was named one of the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers by a loca
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To follow her highly praised first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov—which tells the story of a Surrealis
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You could easily imagine that with all the hilarious—and, well, less than hilarious—antics of his fabulous fictional family Fang, Kevin Wilson might have some serious family issues of his own. You would be wrong.
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It is 8 a.m. in Colorado, and Kent Haruf is out getting wood from the woodpile.
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Ayelet Waldman is a wicked, wicked girl.
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Jonis Agee didn't intend for her 10th book, The River Wife, to become her first historical novel.
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Like many writers, novelist Isabel Allende thinks of herself as an outsider.
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John Keats may have been a great poet but he wasn't much of a seer.
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