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The World Within
Tin House, 364 pages, $16.95 paper
Chance are that if you read the Tribune Books section, you’ve read a book by one of the authors featured in this collection and will grasp the quirky, smart matchup of such conversational partners as Denis Johnson and Wallace Shawn, Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen, Francine Prose and Elissa Schappell. But even if you are a newcomer to these authors, their conversations on topics including ambition, angst, comics, failure, Oprah Winfrey, sex, suicide and smoking strippers is highly entertaining.
