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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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The young Isaac Asimov tried to chronicle hundreds of years of future galactic history in three pulp fiction novels. Should we care?
In José Saramago's newest novel, people suddenly stop dying, but this unexpected gift of immortality leads to chaos.
In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick imagines a universe in which the United States lost World War II.
Charts the troubled relations of African, European and Native American members of a 17th-century New World household.
In The Secret History, Donna Tartt charts the path by which a clique of college students become cold-blooded killers.
The line between comic book heroics and real life exploits is often blurred in Michael Chabon's fanciful novel
José Saramago explores the chaos that ensues when an epidemic of blindness spreads rapidly through society.
In this sprawling posthumous novel, Roberto Bolaño solidifies his reputation as one of the leading—and most unsettling—novelists of modern times.
The best thing to come out of North Dakota since Angie Dickinson.
In Paul Auster's novel Man in the Dark, a fictional character is charged with the unusual assignment of assassinating his own author.
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