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The author of "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" picks five must-reads for a new generation.
By Ann Powers
February 7, 2000
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Five underappreciated novels from the last time the century turned.
By Phillip Lopate
January 31, 2000
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A pioneering playwright and director chooses five novels of panoramic scope and world-shattering perspective.
By Richard Foreman
January 24, 2000
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The author of "Flesh Guitar" celebrates five great cocktail novels.
By Geoff Nicholson
January 10, 2000
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The author of "White Oleander" picks four novels and one memoir that read like poetry.
By Janet Fitch
December 20, 1999
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The author of "Dewey Defeats Truman" selects five great collections of letters.
By Thomas Mallon
December 13, 1999
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A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
By Rafael Campo, M.D.
December 8, 1999
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The author of "The Last Life" picks five favorite books to make you laugh and cringe.
By Claire Messud
December 6, 1999
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Salon's resident sexpert picks five books that taught her what "dirty" meant.
By Susie Bright
November 29, 1999
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The author of "Wonder Boys" selects a literary menu for blocked writers.
By Michael Chabon
November 22, 1999
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The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
By Mary Gaitskill
November 15, 1999
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The author of "The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil" picks five great novels about exploitation.
By Fay Weldon
November 8, 1999
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The deadline poet and author of "The Tummy Trilogy" picks five books that made him laugh.
By Calvin Trillin
November 1, 1999
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The author of "Sophie's Choice" picks five great contemporary Southern novels.
By William Styron
October 25, 1999
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A tale of ruins and revelers and Aegean nights -- and the way things fit together in time and space.
By Don George
October 20, 1999
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By Jonathan Lethem
October 18, 1999
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Lonely Planet's new anthology presents an I'm-glad-that-wasn't-me collection of delightful disasters.
By Don George
October 13, 1999
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The author of "Dog Soldiers" picks five great contemporary war novels.
By Robert Stone
October 11, 1999
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The author of "The Terrible Twos" picks five African-American novels that refuse to behave.
By Ishmael Reed
October 4, 1999
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The author of "Black Tickets" picks six powerful books on the first wounds of childhood.
By Jayne Anne Phillips
September 27, 1999
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As a new anthology shows, traveling en famille delivers its own lessons and
rewards; you just have to use a different map.
By Don George
September 22, 1999
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The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
By Joyce Carol Oates
September 20, 1999
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This world-wanderer masterfully tracks the intricacies of the dance of East and West.
By Don George
September 15, 1999
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The author of "Birds of America" selects five favorite novels about the future.
By Lorrie Moore
September 13, 1999
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The author of "Black Dogs" and "Enduring Love" picks five favorite novels about work.
By Ian McEwan
August 30, 1999