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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + Bookworm

J.R. Salamanca listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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 listen Download

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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...

Jon Davis listen Download

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Jon Davis Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press) Jon Davis is a recent discovery. His poems are beginning to win recognition and awards......

Evan S. Connell listen Download

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Evan S. Connell Deus Lo Volt! Chronicle of the Crusades (Counterpoint) Evan S. Connell, who rarely grants an interview, discusses both the savagery of Holy...

Kate Wheeler listen Download

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Kate Wheeler When Mountains Walked (Houghton Mifflin) Prize-winning short-story writer Kate Wheeler describes the ordeal of tackling her first novel. Ordeal it was, bringing her...

Margot Livesey listen Download

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Margot Livesey The Missing World (Knopf) With an alarming, but quiet malice and wit, Livesey dissects the dark motives underlying her sinister world view.

Eliza Minot listen Download

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Eliza Minot The Tiny One (Knopf) Literary sibling rivalry: Eliza, the younger sister of Susan, offers her slant on a family we've met before...

Jorie Graham listen Download

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Swarm (Ecco, Harper Collins) In an unprecedented impulse to clarify, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham offers an elaborate interpretation of her stunning new book-length poem.