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January 01, 1990 - January 23, 2013 + Bookworm
T.C. Boyle on the environment 
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The novels of T.C. Boyle are well known for addressing complex concerns about the environment and endangered species. In this brief interview, we prepare for...
David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary
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The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
David Levithan has written a dictionary for lovers. The entries in it could apply to any romantic relationship, and...
David Vann: Caribou Island
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Caribu Island (Harper Collins)
David Vann builds his first novel out of dire materials: his father took his own life, and his stepmother's parents died in...
Salman Rushdie: Luka and the Fire of Life
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Luka and the Fire of Life (Random House)
Once again, Salman Rushdie writes a fable, this time for his second son, who has had the time...
Mary Ruefle: Selected Poems
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Selected Poems (Wave Books)When you hear Mary Ruefle reading her poems, you will quickly become entranced by their accessibility: they are funny and heartbreaking—simultaneously...
Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat
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Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes (Knopf)The great Stephen Sondheim has at last produced a collection...
Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
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Lord of Misrule (McPherson)
Jaimy Gordon is a recently-discovered American novelist with an original voice and vision. Her National Book Award-winning novel, Lord of Misrule, is...
Nicole Krauss: Great House
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Great House (Norton)
Nicole Krauss is more sensitive to emotional textures and to characters than she is to conventional plot. Here, she speaks about how the...
Leslie Marmon Silko: The Turquoise Ledge
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The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir ( Viking)
The Sonoran desert, its creatures and features, its ants and plants, becomes the classroom for that most trans-human of...
Breyten Breytenbach on His Literature, Anti-Apartheid Activism
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Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago); Intimate Stranger (Archipelago); Notes from the Middle World (Haymarket Books)
As a writer, South African-born Breyten Breytenbach...
Lan Samantha Chang: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
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All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost (Norton)
This short novel emerged virtually whole — unique in the writing life of its author, Lan Samantha Chang. Perhaps...
Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room
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Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon)
The complexities of race and community are at the center of Susan Straight's lively discussion about family, memory, migration...
Mona Simpson: My Hollywood
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My Hollywood (Knopf)
Mona Simpson's new novel corkscrews its way into the heart of a Santa Monica marriage, a marriage in which child raising duties are...
Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth
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Bitter in the Mouth (Random House)
Monique Truong is an intransigent—she will not settle for anyone's desire to interpret or in any way falsity the world...
Tom McCarthy: C
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Tom McCarthy's C (Knopf) is one of those post-modern novels designed to drill a hole in your head and help you inventory the contents of...
