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January 01, 1990 - April 29, 2012 + Bookworm
Martha McPhee: Dear Money 
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Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In Martha McPhee's comic novel, a wizard of Wall Street promises he can change a novelist from a desperate bohemian into...
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview with David Mitchell
Glowing front-page reviews and profiles proclaim David Mitchell to be "the real thing" and his new novel, The Thousand...
D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic
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Chronic (Graywolf)
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award offers an impressive $100,000 prize to a poet entering the major phase of his/her career. We speak to this...
Jane Smiley: Private Life
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Private Life (Knopf)
Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of
a genius whose work never catches on,...
Peter Carey
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Parrot & Olivier in America (Knopf)
Australian-born Peter Carey celebrates his years in America with a larking, picaresque novel based on Toqueville's Democracy in America...
Aimee Bender
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday)
A little girl is able to taste sadness in her food. Her brother, who has become emotionally withdrawn, is...
Favorite Books: John Waters and Elif Batuman
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Role Models (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and The Possessed (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
John Waters’ gives a passionate description of his favorite books, and for good...
Isabel Allende
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Island Beneath the Sea (Harper)
Isabel Allende's historical novel about slavery and the Haitian revolution becomes the springboard for a conversation about global injustice and the...
Zachary Mason
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Higher mathematics and logic problems have long intrigued fiction writers, including Zachary Mason. Both Lewis Carroll...
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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Self-Portrait Abroad (Dalkey Archive); Running Away (Dalkey Archive)
French fiction had become austere and theoretical until Jean-Philippe Toussaint took it in the direction of the wacky,...
Yann Martel
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Beatrice & Virgil (Spiegel & Grau)
After recognizing that most holocaust literature is centered on personal testimony, Yann Martel decided to create an allegory about the...
David Shields and Ander Monson on the New Prose
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) and Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf Press)
New web technologies (and the ever-increasing availability of information) have made possible a...
Ian McEwan
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Solar (Doubleday)
Along the way in our conversation about bad morals and good intentions, Ian McEwan dabbles in the background subjects of his new novel...
Anne Carson
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Nox (New Directions)
Anne Carson's brother ran away, and she never saw him again. After learning of his death some twenty years later, she assembled Nox...
Sam Lipsyte: The Ask
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In the midst of all his scandalous anger and shenanigans, it's the shape of a great sentence that keeps Sam Lipsyte's interest in writing fiction...
