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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool. You can follow Ted Gioia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tedgioia.
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Other authors present us with decisive characters, but Alice Munro is our leading chronicler of the indecisive and irresolute.
Mixes the passions of classical tragedy with the experimental narrative structures of post-modern fiction.
Those intimidated by David Foster Wallace's 1,100-page novel Infinite Jest, may find easier access to this author via these stories.
You might call White Teeth the great melting pot novel, except there is more simmering than melting happening here.
A rags-to-riches tale set in India instead of America. Even in fiction, it seems, the world is flat.
Welcome to the late style of Philip Roth, where hanky-panky is less exciting than hara-kiri
Chronic City seems likes a typical buddy novel set in New York, until the robots and space weapons show up.
Fritz Leiber was a chess player, preacher, college teacher, champion fencer, Shakespearian actor...and, yes, a great storyteller.
The Sea is a dark and haunting story of a widower who returns to the scene of his first romance.
Theodore Sturgeon has written a grand unclassifiable novel. Is it fantasy, horror, mystery or experimental fiction? You be the judge.
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