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Memoir? What Memoir? Frey’s Novel
by Daniel Nester
May/June 2008
The public rehabilitation of disgraced author James Frey is slated to begin May 13. That's the day Bright Shiny Morning, a novel, hits bookstores nationwide in what he and his publisher undoubtedly hope will be a well-received comeback.
Chasing the Whale: A Profile of Junot Díaz
by Frank Bures
September/October 2007
Eleven years after the publication of his best-selling debut story collection, Junot Díaz’s follow-up has finally arrived.
First-Fiction Annual
by Staff
July/August 2007
In our seventh annual profile of first-time fiction writers, we introduce Rishi Reddi, Jeff Hobbs, Frances Hwang, Phil LaMarche, and Sunshine O’Donnell.
Summer Summaries
by Staff
July/August 2007
A selection of recently published titles—blockbuster novels, international literature, and contemporary poetry collections—for the discerning beach bum.
For the Relief of Unbearable Pressure: A Profile of Nathan Englander
by Frank Bures
May/June 2007
For eight years readers have anticipated Nathan Englander’s follow-up to his wildly successful debut story collection. With the publication of The Ministry of Special Cases, the wait is over.
The Nothing That Is: A Profile of Matthew Sharpe
by Mary Gannon
March/April 2007
In his new novel, Jamestown, small press superstar Matthew Sharpe turns to history—sort of.
In Search of David Foster Wallace
by Joe Woodward
January/February 2006
Whether it’s a thousand-page novel, a single-paragraph story, or a footnoted essay, the elusive author always offers a complicated—and sometimes maddening—reading experience. But is there more to David Foster Wallace than words on a page?
Everything Follows: An Interview With Helon Habila
by Frank Bures
January/February 2003
Helon Habila read novels as a boy to shelter himself from the brutal reality of his country’s political instability. Now, the author of Waiting for an Angel believes his generation of Nigerian novelists should help change that reality.
The Trouble He's Seen: A Profile of John Dufresne
by Eve Richardson
March/April 2002
So how did John Dufresne—the eldest of four children of French-Canadian parents, a boy who grew up in the Catholic, blue-collar Grafton Hill neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts, a boy for whom it was beyond imagining that a man might find his vocation in words—become a noted short story writer, a sought-after teacher of creative writing, and the author of three acclaimed novels, two of which are set well below the Mason-Dixon line? In part, the answer is a keen ear for the music of language and an eye for the telling detail.
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