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January 01, 1990 - October 02, 2012 + Bookworm
Jonathon Coe

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Jonathan Coe The House of Sleep (Knopf) Coe, a young English writer, has the temperament of a dark, experimental, comic novelist, but he chooses to...
Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha (Knopf) A Harvard-educated man writes the fictional life of a famous courtesan. A Westerner reveals the secrets of Asia....
George Plimpton

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George Plimpton Truman Capote (Doubleday) Plimpton, the founding father of the modern literary interview and for years the editor of The Paris Review, talks about...
Miroslav Holub

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Miroslav Holub Shedding Life (Milkweed) The renowned Czech poet and immunologist explores the border between art and science, questions the beloved tenets of humanists--and reveals...
Tess Gallagher

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Tess Gallagher At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner) Tess Gallagher reveals her "witching" techniques that transform talk into literary language. She also speaks candidly about...
David Grossman

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David Grossman The Zig Zag Kid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The Israeli writer tells the story of how a book written for his son's coming-of-age...
A. S. Byatt

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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (Random House)Why do adults need fairy tales? What is, at its essence, the heart of a story? The answers...
Joyce Carol Oates

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Man Crazy (Dutton)
An unusually revealing conversation about female masochism and creativity: Oates on the harrowing of the flesh, penitence and salvation.
Art Spiegelman

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Open Me...I'm a Dog (Harper Collins)In this discussion of a "mind trip" for children, Art Spiegelman reads from his new children's book--with running commentary from the...
Don DeLillo

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Underworld (Scribner)
The infrequently interviewed Don DeLillo discusses his epic novel, particularly the movement toward sincerity and simplicity that characterizes the book's climactic chapters.
Jamaica Kincaid: My Brother

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A close look at the waves of passion and neutrality that comprise the style of this elegy on the death of Jamaica Kincaid's brother.
Deborah Eisenberg

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All Around Atlantis
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This unusual writer, who takes a full year to complete each story, has completed seven -- enough to fill...
Harold Brodkey Part 2

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The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.
Edmund White

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The Farewell Symphony (Knopf)
This final book of Edmund White's trilogy about gay life in New York provides gossip, tragedy and, of course, brilliant writing. But...
Cal Bedient

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Cal Bedient, Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) This book, the poet's first, comes as the culmination of years of criticism and teaching. Here, an in-depth discussion of...