A sexual fantasy about Keith Olbermann? Joe Biden nightmares? "Going Rogue" co-author Lynn Vincent tells all
By Steve Almond Oct 25, 2009
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The screen icon on playing Coetzee's doomed hero, rewriting other people's scripts and making terrible movies
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 18, 2009
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Muriel Barbery's follow-up to "Hedgehog" makes for a delicious meal: One part novel, one part foodie fantasia
By Tommy Wallach
September 11, 2009
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She wants me to comment -- but what can I say without ending our friendship?
By Cary Tennis
August 26, 2009
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"The Magicians" is a ravishing adult novel that shines a new light on the fantasy tales we read as kids
By Laura Miller
August 12, 2009
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The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it
By Laura Miller
July 31, 2009
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A lovelorn schoolteacher uses the Internet to exact his romantic revenge in Nick Laird's chilling tale
By Laura Miller
July 23, 2009
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One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group
By Joe Coscarelli
July 14, 2009
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The "Hills" star puts reality TV behind her -- with a novel about a reality star who just wants to be a normal girl
By Thomas Rogers
June 19, 2009
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Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
By Allen Barra
June 4, 2009
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Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade.
By Laura Miller
May 26, 2009
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His dark, perverse fiction is unforgettable. But the author of "Crash" and "Empire of the Sun" was also a visionary who mapped the collision of culture and technology, media and desire.
By Simon Reynolds
April 23, 2009
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The visionary writer has passed away at age 78. This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best and bravest work.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 19, 2009
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Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer.
By Laura Miller
April 14, 2009
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Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.
By Nina Power
April 4, 2009
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Some of my best stories are true. What are the ethics?
By Cary Tennis
February 5, 2009
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Getting a note of appreciation from John Updike could buoy you up for weeks. Now who's left to bless us?
By Garrison Keillor
February 4, 2009
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What readers really want is dastardly deeds by dark, despicable men, or saucy wenches with pert breasts displayed like fresh fruit on a platter.
By Garrison Keillor
January 14, 2009
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A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 17, 2008
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A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina.
By Laura Miller
December 16, 2008
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Our picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year.
By Laura Miller
December 8, 2008
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Midwesterners usually go south to misbehave, not to the handicapped stall in a Minneapolis men's room at halftime.
By Garrison Keillor
December 3, 2008
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What if Hitler had a love child? A.N. Wilson's "Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair.
By James Hannaham
November 25, 2008
The secret diary of Sarah Palin's ghostwriter
John Malkovich faces "Disgrace"
The elegance of the gourmand
My friend wrote a horrible novel
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David Foster Wallace lives on for an "Infinite Summer"
The unbearable lightness of Lauren Conrad
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