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<p>Ondaatje discusses his turn from concealment to revelation and reflects on the magic of youth.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>How did Jess Walter make the leap between his romantic novel, "Beautiful Ruins," and the end-of-the-world sadness of his stories in "We Live in Water?"</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>The recently named the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles reads selections from her new collection and reflects on what it means to be a poet of place today.<br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Luis Alberto Urrea ("The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "Queen of America") continues to discuss his saga inspired by the life of Teresita Urrea, "the Mexican Joan of Arc."</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican <em>curandera</em>...</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>In this second interview, George Saunders delves further into the dark-comic twists and turns of his recent short story collection. (Part 2 of 2)</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Nick Flynn on the strange days on the set of Being Flynn, a film adapted from his personal memoir, and starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in ten years is an emotionally bare story about the erosion of a marriage.<br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>George Saunders reflects on writing, "infinitely" revising, and how he finds the voices for his luminous but smudged characters. (Part 1 of 2)</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Poet Ange Mlinko reads poems from her forthcoming collection and talks about the way that poetry braids difficulty and pleasure. <br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Journalist Amy Wilentz's admiring and sober portrait of post-earthquake Haiti...</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>The aimless hero of Antoine Wilson's second novel takes the world at face value and wishes to impart wisdom to his unborn son, after a life of suspended childhood himself.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Burns reflects on the eerie spaces and dark themes that populate his graphic novels, as well as the nature of suspense that does not necessarily resolve into explanation.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>A ghost story about the weave of storytelling itself, written in sparse fragments of dialogue punctuated by faint embroidery, grim illustrations, and blank spaces.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's new novel written in hypnotic prose.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's Prosperous Friends, a novel written in hypnotic prose.</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>A conversation with cast members about this revelatory new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby."</p><div class="feedflare">
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<p>Novelist and social critic Chris Kraus on her latest novel, where romance and social redemption collide in post-Patriot Act America.</p><div class="feedflare">
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