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Aleksandar Hemon: The Book of My Lives
Margaret Atwood on Innovation
Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers
David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life
Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Sam Lipsyte:The Fun Parts
Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed
Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table
Jess Walter: We Live in Water
Eloise Klein Healy: A Wild Surmise
Luis Alberto Urrea, Part Two
Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part Two
Nick Flynn: The Reenactments
Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then
George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part One
Ange Mlinko: Shoulder Season; Marvelous Things Overheard
Lydia Millet: Magnificence
Amy Wilentz: Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Antoine Wilson: Panorama City
Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
Charles Burns: The Hive
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
Christine Schutt: Prosperous Friends
Scott Shepherd and John Collins: Gatz
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate
Chris Ware: Building Stories
Craig Nova: The Constant Heart
Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
Lawrence Norfolk: John Saturnall's Feast
Robert Hass: What Light Can Do
Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue
Joshua Cohen: Four New Messages
Neal Stephenson: Some Remarks
Mary Ruefle: Madness, Rack, and Honey
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Time of Useful Consciousness
John Irving: In One Person
Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be?
Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins
Laszlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango
Jim Krusoe: Parsifal
Victoria Nelson: Gothicka
Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King
Richard Ford: Canada, Part 2
Richard Ford: Canada, Part 1
Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Cees Nooteboom: Self-Portrait of an Other
Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin-The Life and the Legend
Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men
Adam Levin: Hot Pink
Etgar Keret: Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
Peter Behrens: The O'Briens
Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
William H. Gass: Life Sentences
Krys Lee: Drifting House
Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part II
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part I
Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet
Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend
Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish
Wayne Koestenbaum: Humiliation
Steve Erickson: These Dreams of You
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
Ismet Prcic: Shards
Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm
Jonathan Lethem: The Ecstasy of Influence
Peter Gizzi: Threshold Songs
Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes
Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
W.S. Merwin: The Shadow of Sirius
Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon
Tony D'Souza: Mule
Lawrence Weschler: Uncanny Valley
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
Justin Torres: We the Animals
Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning
Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus
Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1
UpClose: Sapphire
Dora Malech: Say So
Chris Adrian: The Great Night
John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun
Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
Louis B. Jones: Radiance
John Steppling on theater, 'Fever Dreams'