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Last 20 Shows Dennis Cooper Ugly Man(Harper Collins)Although we've followed the career ofDennis Copperfrom the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence?the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe Angel's Game(Doubleday)Spanish writerCarlos Ruiz Zafónhas attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lorrie MooreA Gate at the Stairs(Knopf)Lorrie Moorehas written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work, she has published a longer novel and survived to tell the tale...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nick LairdGlover's Mistake(Viking)In this novel of love, manipulation and deception,Nick Lairdattempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures a book so that readers come to understand things the characters remain blind to.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Stephen Sondheim and John WeidmanRoad Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)Stephen Sondheimis right ? his new musical,Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwrightJohn Weidman, discuss the many revisions of the musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an American classic...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-GarzaBest of Contemporary Mexican Fiction(Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what?s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor,Álvaro Uribe, andCristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Clancy MartinHow to Sell(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turnsout ? surprise! ? to be a philosophical novel about the problems ofappearance and reality...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin(Random House)Darkened by intimations of 9/11,Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novelbrings together the lives of strangers who witness a high-wire artistdancing between the two World Trade Center towers...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Reif LarsenThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet(Penguin Press)Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Glen David GoldSunnyside(Knopf)What a charming raconteurGlen David Goldis, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War I...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Geoff DyerJeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi(Pantheon)Geoff Dyeron the secrets that structure his new novel (whichmight, on the surface, seem like two novellas)....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Matthew DickmanAll-American Poem(American Poetry Review)Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winnerMatthew Dickmanwrites emotional and accessible poetry...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brad GoochFlannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor(Little, Brown)While we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing, biographerBrad Goochdescribes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's innerlife.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Matthea HarveyModern Life(Graywolf Press)Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides,Matthea Harvey'spoems careen into the unknown...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wells TowerEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Wells Toweris the most talked-about new story writer to emerge on theliterary scene. This conversation focuses on the weird details he usesto illuminate a mostly conventional narrative arc...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
John WrayLowboy(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)John Wray's novel about a schizophrenic boy's quest for sexand/or love flirts violently with the thriller form...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Anne WaldmanManatee /Humanity(Penguin Poets)Anne Waldmanguides us through this book-length poetry-and-prosemeditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremonydesigned to instill a deeper sense of compassion....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jim KrusoeErased (Tin House Books)In this wild and woolly conversation,Jim Krusoereveals thathis zany, unpredictable, hilarity-inspiring novels are, well,descriptions of the human condition (at least as how he sees it).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
E. L. DoctorowHomer& Langley (Random House)In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers ? one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor ? Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Eduardo GaleanoMirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone(Nation Books)Eduardo Galeanohas written a history of the world in brief chapters, each one devoted to an iconic incident...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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