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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + Bookworm
Roddy Doyle 
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Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry (Viking) Roddy Doyle, novelist of the Irish working class, takes a picaresque gallop through "the Troubles" in an historical...
Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt 'Tis: A Memoir (Scribner) America's favorite Irishman talks about the dubious luxury of writing his second memoir while on airplanes and in waiting...
Michael Frayn
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Michael Frayn Headlong (Metropolitan) This British comic novel links an art-theft caper to both a philosophical inquiry into authenticity and an historical analysis of Breughel's...
James Galvin
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Fencing the Sky
(Holt)
Western American novelist James Galvin contrasts the eternal values of the natural world of his youth with the rapacity of the "land...
Scott Turow
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Scott Turow "Personal Injuries" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This master of the legal thriller talks about the complexity of his characters-a complexity achieved by...
Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden
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Jamaica Kincaid's beautiful notes on gardening uncover the same imperialistic and racist assumptions she exposes in her fiction.
Chuck Palahnuik
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Chuck Palahnuik "Invisible Monsters" (Norton) The author of The Fight Club gives an intense and raw description of his world view.
Jonathan Lethem
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Motherless Brooklyn
(Doubleday)
The western, the hard-boiled mystery, the sci-fi epic; these are the screens behind which Jonathan Lethem's oedipal dramas loom.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut "Bagombo Snuff Box" (Putnam) Kurt Vonnegut began by writing conventional short stories. Here, he talks about the development of his wild style, his...
Chang-rae Lee
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A Gesture Life
(Riverhead)
Chang-rae Lee says the Asian-American experience is written about "in a yellow light." Here, he turns off that light to penetrate a...
Michael Ondaatje: Handwriting
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Michael Ondaatje, discussing his poetry, explores the mystery of language itself--the language of his birth, its ancient poetry and mythologies.
Paul Auster
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Timbuktu (Holt)
In life, as in his metaphysical mystery novels, the elegant Paul Auster implies and evades, implies and evades -- as he does in his...
Wayne Johnston
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Wayne Johnston "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" (Doubleday); "The Divine Ryans" (Anchor) In each of these novels a secret is revealed-a secret history in...
Sylvia Brownrigg
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Sylvia Brownrigg "The Metaphysical Touch" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In this novel, a romance, of sorts, is struck up via the internet. This,...
Edward Hirsch
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Edward Hirsch "How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry" (Harcourt Brace). Some poems are so strong that they leave permanent impressionson...
