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January 01, 1990 - February 22, 2012 + Bookworm
Adam Haslett 
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You Are Not a Stranger Here (Doubleday)
Viewed together, the short stories in Adam Haslett's bravura first collection present a fugue of obsessions and concerns: mental...
Anthony Lane
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Nobody's Perfect (Knopf)
We pursue the New Yorker's critic through the dark woods of his literary and cinematic interests, finally emerging into a clearing as Anthony...
Mary Woronov
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Niagara (Serpent?s Tail) The Amazon dominatrix of Warhol-superstardom has become an impressive novelist, specializing in primal Noir fiction. Her feminist archetypes, her dangerous sexualized landscapes,...
Gilbert Sorrentino, Part II
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Our conversation with Gilbert Sorrentino continues. The great experimentalist discusses the art of parody -- in this case his recent hilarious novel Gold Fools...
Gilbert Sorrentino, Part I
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Having returned to his native Brooklyn after a more than 20 years in California, Gilbert Sorrentino's new books span the continent with an unrelenting experimental...
Ben Marcus: Notable American Women
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Ben Marcus, a younger member of the avant-garde, talks about some of the devices that have structured his books...
James McCourt
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Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake (Knopf) The great Camp novelist constructs the complicated personality of a movie goddess in retreat. Her constellation...
Dennis Cooper
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My Loose Thread (Canongate Books)In his most vulnerable and emotionally accessible novel, Dennis Cooper explores the mind of a boy who is like one...
Rick Moody
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The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions (Little, Brown)
Rick Moody explores his dark ancestry, which includes the Puritan minister who inspired a famous Hawthorne story...
Francine Prose: The Lives of Muses
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Francine Prose's The Lives of the Muses is a series of "brief lives" of women who inspired famous men: Alice of Alice in Wonderland, Yoko...
Dave Eggers
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McSweeney-s Books Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) has invested in his beliefs and started up a press. He publishes the popular...
Oliver Sacks
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Oaxaca Journal (National Geographic Society)
Wherever Oliver Sacks goes, the nature of consciousness is his subject...
Charles Simic
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Night Picnic: Poems (Harcourt)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic examines his work under
the lens of political terror and the subsequent experience of
immigration...
Alice Sebold
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The Lovely Bones (Little Brown)
In Alice Sebold's eerie and fascinating first novel, a murdered girl reveals a double mystery: the nature of heaven (from where...
Michael Frayn
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Spies (Metropolitan Books) An elderly man reviews his childhood, discovering more than he could have possibly known as a child. Michael Frayn shows...
