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Your humble host is the subject of the latest installment of Fishbowl LA's 20 Questions.15. What do your friends say is your best quality? I...

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Amy Bloom, whose most recent novel Away is enjoying considerable success, is rolling into town for a pair of appearances, one at Vroman's and one at the Skirball Center.  We haven't had a ...

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We've long awaited Saul Friedlander's second volume of Nazi Germany and the Jews.  The Years of Extermination was published e...

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We're the latest interview subject over at the excellent Eight Diagrams.Wayne: Despite the fact that literary blogs are often used as an e...

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David Leavitt graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA in English. He is the author of the short story collections Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner...

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If you haven't found it yet, do check out Brother Robert's interview with Nathan Englander, in which the two discuss "the Dirty War, th...

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We can't think of a better way for you to spend Friday night than popping over to Vroman's in Pasadena to catch Arthur Phillips reading and signing his new novel Angelica, a ...

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Writing for New City Chicago, John Freeman interviews Dara Horn and Akhil Sharma, two of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, who...

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We're awfully pleased to offer this exclusive, thoughtful guest interview with Chris Abani. INTERVIEW BY KATE DURBIN Chris Abani'...

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