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January 01, 1990 - January 17, 2013 + Bookworm
Joan Didion 
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Where I Was From (Knopf)
Joan Didion takes deadly aim at the dream of California embodied, for example, in her own first novel, Run River. ...
Vendela Vida and Julie Orringer
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And Now You Can Go (Knopf) and How to Breathe Underwater (Vintage)
Chuck Palahniuk
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Diary (Doubleday)
Chuck Palahniuk takes on some rather aggressive questions about American culture and the artist...
Kevin Young
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Jelly Roll (a blues) (Knopf); Blues Poems (Everyman's Library)
Kevin Young, who has edited a terrific anthology of blues poetry, uses blues traditions...
Rikki Ducornet
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Gazelle (Knopf) Where will the magical Rikki Ducornet take us next? In Gazelle, the Arabian Nights recur, as a thirteen -year-old girl...
John Kaye
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The Dead Circus (Atlantic Monthly Press) John Kaye grew up in Los Angeles. His novel, The Dead Circus, is set in that city...
Janette Turner Hospital
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Due Preparations for the Plague (Norton) Janette Turner Hospital's extraordinary fiction is beginning to gain recognition in America. Due Preparations for the Plague,...
Heidi Julavits: The Effect of Living Backwards
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Heidi Julavits' first book was a bleak novel. Her second book's vision is lighter, but the subject remains dark: a terrorist training cell…
Ahdaf Soueif
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The Map of Love (Vintage)
London-based author Ahdaf Soueif, praised as an "Egyptian George Eliot," describes the impact of middle-eastern and global history on her narratives....
Barbara Gowdy
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The Romantic (Metropolitan) This very intimate interview focuses on the adolescent desire for magic in romance and the adult discovery that it may...
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
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Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel makes a distinction between the playful, surprise-filled surface of his novel and its spiritual purpose...
Carol Muske Dukes
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Sparrow (Random House)This collection of elegies for actor David Dukes, the poet's late husband, inspires a conversation about death, role-playing and ghosts....
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
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Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (Harper Collins)A new Little Lit is always an event, and this one has work by...
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood on her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...
Siri Hustvedt
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What I Loved
(Holt)
A harrowing subject: the child of an artist giving way to crime, drugs and dishonesty. A harrowing conversation with author Siri Hustved:...
