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January 01, 1990 - November 13, 2012 + Bookworm
Jim Shepard 
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Project X (Knopf); Love and Hydrogen
(Vintage)
Jim Shepard's fondness for the little guy, the day-dreaming Walter Mitty type is the focus of this conversation,...
E. L. Doctorow
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Sweet Land Stories (Random House)
This lovely new collection features con men, killers, cult leaders, baby stealers and the occasional prophet. E.L. Doctorow reveals...
Rebecca Solnit
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River of Shadows (Penguin); Hope in the Dark (Nation)
In her poetic biography, Rebecca Solnit uses the figure of photographer Edward Muybridge to discuss...
Martin Amis
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Yellow Dog (Miramax)
While examining the mysteries of Martin Amis' enigma-turned-thriller, we speculate about the future of the literary novel...
Suzan-Lori Parks
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Getting Mother's Body (Random House)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks talks about her first novel, rejecting an art of concealment for one that celebrates rollicking immediacy...
Guy Maddin
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From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings
(Coach House)
When the emerging avant-garde filmmaker Guy Maddin published his journals, the connection between his life and his wacky...
Harold Bloom: The Best Poems of the English Language
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With solemnity, grace and a little defensiveness, this Grand Old Man of Letters reads, discusses and defends his choices...
Alice Walker
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (Random House)
She's at it again! This time, Alice Walker takes to the rain forest for the...
Lucie Brock-Broido
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Trouble in Mind: Poems (Knopf) The ecstatic and ghoulish poetry of Lucie Brock-Broido is stitched together from fragments of poetic history. In this...
Andrew Sean Greer
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The hero of this novel is born an old man who ages backwards-not an unusual fantasy...
Melissa Pritchard
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Melissa Pritchard's Late Bloomer is funny. She's taken her ongoing interest in creativity and transformation, and placed it in counterpoint to a lively parody of...
Edwidge Danticat
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The Dew Breaker (Knopf)
What happens when a Haitian "dew breaker" (torturer) moves to America and conceals his identity? In this collection of interrelated...
Chris Abani
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GraceLand
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
In Chris Abani's GraceLand, a teenage Elvis-impersonator in Lagos, Nigeria lives in poverty as he pursues an American pop-culture dream...
David St. John
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The Face (Harper Collins)
Rapid tonal shifts, teetering rhetorical mixtures of irony and self-pity, and overwhelming instability characterize David St. John's The Face, a novella in...
Octavia Butler
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Kindred (Beacon) Although Octavia Butler was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (-genius- grant-) in 1995 because of her science fiction, she does not consider her...
