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Mark Helprin
O'Brien; Sullivan; Sorrentino
Manuel Puig
Julian Barnes and Kazou Ishiguro
Oliver Sacks: Seeing Voices
Cynthia Kadohata and Briah Kiteley
Tracy Kidder
Alice Adams
Sisters in Crime
Michael Dorris
Wizard of Oz
Grandstreet
Ishmael Reed
Mary Morris; Michael Goth
Amy Tan and Faith Sale
Dennis Cooper
Greil Marcus
Poets under 35
Lynn Sharon Schwartz
Elmore Leonard; John Steppling
James Merrill; Stephen Yenser
Jane Vandenberg
John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Tim Cahill; Mitch Siskind
Ray Blount Jr.
Edrianos; Beyond Baroque
Literature & Puzzles
Tobias Wolf; Doug Dutton
Jay Gummerman; Oakley Hall
Neal Gabler
William Kotzwinkle
Robert Kirgo; Eastman Lyons
Kendall Hailey; Sisterhood Bookstore
David Leavitt; J Herman
Tim Miller; Paul Manette
Sandra Dykstra; A. Scott Berg
Douglas Messerli; John F. Baker
Friends of Michael
Chapter 9: Grief and Loss
Poetry
The Story of America, Pt. 3
The Story of America, Pt. 2
The Story of America, Pt. 1
The Confederacy of Bookworms
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.2
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.1
The Arc of Bookworm
Michelle Huneven: ‘Search’
Natalia Molina: ‘A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community’
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works” (Re-air)
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (Re-air)
Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets” (Re-air)
Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’
Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’
Tao Lin’s ‘Leave Society’ shifts the author’s perspective to love and kindness
Zac Smith’s ‘Everything is Totally Fine,’ the book that reopened Tao Lin’s Muumuu House
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments
Sheila Heti: “Pure Colour”
Tom Bissell: ‘Creative Types: and Other Stories’
Tessa Hadley: “Free Love”
Antoine Wilson: “Mouth to Mouth”
John Keene: “Punks: New & Selected Poems” (The Song Cave)
In Memory of Joan Didion: 'Blue Nights'
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 2)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 1)
Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 2)
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 1)
Louise Erdrich: “The Sentence”
Sandra Cisneros: “Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo”
Diane Williams: “How High? – That High”
Mary Gaitskill: “The Devil's Treasure”
Teresa K. Miller with Carol Muske-Dukes “Borderline Fortune”
Atsuro Riley: “Heard-Hoard”
Jackie Kay: “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend”
Rabih Alameddine: “The Wrong End of the Telescope”
Richard Powers: “Bewilderment”
Dennis Cooper: “I Wished”
Alice McDermott: “What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction”
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Ron and Russell Mael: “Annette”
Rikki Ducornet: “Trafik”
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 2)
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 1)
Jack Skelley: “Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson”
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works”
Amy Gerstler: “Index of Women”
Joshua Cohen: 'The Netanyahus'
Joan Silber: 'Secrets of Happiness'
Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman: “Street Cop”
Edward St. Aubyn: 'Double Blind'
Domenico Ingenito: 'Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry'
Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret
Sandi Tan: 'Lurkers'
Rachel Cusk: “Second Place”
George Toles: 'Status Update'
Rachel Kushner: “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020”
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse”
Wayne Koestenbaum: “The Cheerful Scapegoat”