George Saunders - Tenth of December
A new story collection, the first in six years, from one of our greatest living writers,...
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Ramona Ausubel author of No One Is Here Except All Of Us
A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a...
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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have...
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Interview with Rachel Kushner author of "The Flamethrowers"
The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake,...
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Interview with Claire Vaye Watkins author of "Battleborn"
In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into...
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Interview with Sam Kean, author of "The Violinist Thumb"
Scientists can now read, for the first time, the lost tales buried in the human genome. The...
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Interview with Karen Thompson Walker, author of "The Age of Miracles"
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover,...
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Interview with April Bernard author of "Miss Fuller"
What does one sensitive but ordinary woman makes of a publicly disgraced woman like Fuller, and...
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Interview with April Bernard author of "Miss Fuller"
She was the most famous woman in America. And nobody knew who she was. It is 1850. Margaret...
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Interview with Jess Walter author of "Beautiful Ruins"
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets...
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Interview with Stephen Greenblatt author of "The Swerve"
One of the world’s most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative...
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Interview with Tom Standage author of "An Edible History of Humanity"
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of technology, changing the course...
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Interview with Ernest Cline author of " Ready Player One"
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours...
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Interview with Jennifer Egan author of "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging...
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Interview with Dana Spiotta author of "Stone Arabia"
"Stone Arabia", Dana Spiotta’s moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession,...
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Interview with Audrey Schulman author of "3 Weeks in December"
"Remarkably fresh, complex and memorable... Max’s adventure would be enough to fill any book." -...
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Interview with Adam Wilson author of "Flatscreen"
"Flatscreen" tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference...
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Interview with Eleanor Brown author of "The Weird Sisters"
A major new talent tackles the complicated terrain of sisters. A winsome novel that explores...
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Ben Marcus - The Flame Alphabet
Sam interviews Ben Marcus author of "The Flame Alphabet". Listen as Sam and Ben discuss Ben's...
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Ryan Boudinot author of Blueprints of the Afterlife
Sam talks with the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book...
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