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January 01, 1990 - August 05, 2010 + Bookworm
Diane Johnson

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Le Marriage (Dutton)
The bird-like flutings of Diane Johnson's amused voice animate this merry duet about France, comedy, depravity and marriage.
Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie The Toughest Indian in the World (Grove Atlantic) Sherman Alexie is the cynical, irreverent Indian writer (he does not use the term...
Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith White Teeth (Random House) Young Zadie Smith's dizzying comic take on multi-racial London. Her background, she says, was so mixed that P.G....
Mark Strand

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A Blizzard of One
(Knopf)
A brow-furrowing conversation with a former poet laureate Mark Strand...
Jane Smiley

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Horse Heaven (Knopf)
At a gallop, Jane Smiley tells us everything she knows about horse breeding, horse racing, horse trading...
Francine Prose: Blue Angel

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Blue Angel pivots on a question of academic sexual harassment...
J.R. Salamanca

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J.R. Salamanca That Summer's Trance (Welcome Rain Press) Salamanca's first book in fourteen years, That Summer's Trance, a shimmering book about love, desire and betrayal,...
Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly

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Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)Author Art Spiegelman and editor Francoise Mouly introduce Little Lit, their new collection of comics by world-renowned...
David Foster Wallace

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little Brown)Our Heartbreaking Group of Staggering Geniuses comes to its conclusion with "Grandmaster" Wallace: a conversation about difficulty , gender,...
George Saunders: Pastoralia

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In George Saunder's dystopian theme parks, the American Dream festers and thrives fertilized by self-help movements and Big Brother type cults.
Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis Glamorama (Knopf) Ellis, a godfather to the new fiction scene, describes what it-s like to have one foot in each...
Donald Antrim

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Donald Antrim The Verificationist (Knopf) Donald Antrim-s weird sensibility instinctually concocts hierarchical societies that ritually reject and expel their zanies and oddballs:...
Mark Danielewski

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Mark Danielewski House of Leaves (Pantheon) Danielewski builds a haunted house out of the pages of his first novel, House of Leaves. It...
Dennis Cooper

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Period (Grove)Dennis Cooper is one of the originators of the new fiction. We look at the violently sexual five-book series he recently completed...
Dave Eggers

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Bookworm is excited to celebrate the emergence of a vibrant new generation of fiction writers by talking to the new -staggering geniuses- and...