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September 26, 2012

After the Escape: Sharon Olds on Stag's Leap

A Conversation with Tess Taylor

Sharon Olds talks about her new collection of verse and what consolation art can offer in the face of loss.

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September 18, 2012

Addicted to the Everything of America: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace

A Conversation with Cameron Martin

The author of Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story discusses the immersive style and titanic ambition of the novelist.

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September 11, 2012

Back into the Abyss: Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman

A Conversation with Miwa Messer

The authors -- and old friends -- discuss their writing processes, the countries that are close to their hearts, and the mysteries of love and death.

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Daybook

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.

Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.