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January 01, 1990 - January 27, 2013 + Bookworm
Cees Nooteboom

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All Souls Day (Harcourt)
Although afternoon television talk shows have made us all too familiar with the stages of grief, Cees Nooteboom's philosophical novel...
Peter Carey

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True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage)Peter Carey captures the fated life of the Australian outlaw-hero Ned Kelly in thrilling run-on sentences: the world looms...
John Burnham Schwartz

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Claire Marvel
(Doubleday)
John Burnham Schwartz has written a contemporary romance, complete with obsession, nightmare and a
life-altering vacation in a deserted French barn-but with a...
David Mitchell

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Number 9 Dream
(Random House)
David Mitchell, a radiant and gifted young writer, places his work at the center of a barrage of influences...
Richard Ford

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A Multitude of Sins (Knopf)
Richard Ford, finds in adultery, his most recent subject, traces of old Emersonian independence. But he still considers his newest...
Marc Estrin

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Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
(BlueHen Books)
This first novel by enterprising novelist Marc Estrin
introduces Gregor Samsa, Kafka's famous roach, to...
Library of America

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Library of America (Geoffrey O'Brien, editor in chief and Max Rudin, publisher) Library of America is a publisher whose mandate is to keep American...
William Kennedy

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Roscoe (Viking)
Truth, when it disappears from one's public life, also tends to be unavailable in one's personal life. Pulitzer prize-winner William Kennedy talks...
Curtis White

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Requiem
(Dalky Archive Press)
Curtis White has created comedy from degeneration by counterpointing Biblical stories, biographies of Classical composers, and the e-mailed sexploits of pornographic...
Robert Creeley

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Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (New Directions)
On the occasion of a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Robert Creeley discusses the many influences on his singular...
Sigrid Nunez

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For Rouenna (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Sigrid Nunez's books reveal the secrets of lives that have fallen through the cracks....
Ron Koertge

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Geography of the Forehead (University of Arkansas Press) In the sweet mayhem of Ron Koertge's hilarious poems, a surreal vision collides with the sadness...
An Isaac Babel Celebration

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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Norton)
We inaugurate Bookworm's Book Club with a celebration of the Russian master, Isaac Babel. We'll focus on...
Jane DeLynn

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Leash (Semiotexte) As always, Jane DeLynn leaves a trail of magnificent broken taboos behind her. Here, she confesses that she can go...
Steve Martin

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Shopgirl (Hyperion)
When Steve Martin brought out his first novella, Shopgirl praise from the writing community (Salman Rushdie, for example) indicated that he can be...