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January 01, 1990 - December 08, 2012 + Bookworm
Jonathan Lethem 
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You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday)
The pleasures of the lightweight and the free-spirited.
Kiran Desai
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The Inheritance of Loss (Grove)
Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai says she prefers "messiness" to perfection--it's more human, and it fits her subject better.
Mark Slouka
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The Visible World (Houghton Mifflin)
Can a novelist uncover a secret?
John Ashbery and Ron Padgett on the works of Pierre Reverdy
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Haunted House (Ashbery); Prose Poems
(Padgett) (both from Black Square Editions)
The haunted, lonely prose-poetry of Pierre Reverdy has attracted many translators. Two of America's most extraordinary...
Lydia Davis
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Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lydia Davis writes elegant prose pieces in which
basic confusions are described with authority and clarity.
Joanna Scott
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Everybody Loves Somebody (Back Bay Books)Joanna Scott claims her collection of stories is a history of love, from World War I to the present.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The Gravedigger’s Daughter (Ecco)
Oates's most autobiographical novel and the culmination of her career-long themes and obsessions.
Christine Schutt
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A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer (Harcourt)
Prose impressionist Christine Schutt describes the painstaking intensity that allows her to perfect her cadences and the...
John Banville (as Benjamin Black)
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Christine Falls (Holt)
Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville has written the first in a series of thrillers, and he's even taken on an alias or, at...
John Ashbery
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A Worldly Country (Ecco)
In this landmark conversation, John Ashbery talks about his fascination with nonsense and fantasy, beginning with Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Those...
Brian Selznick
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press)
The design and composition of this five hundred page picture book took Brian Selznick many years' work. Here,...
Howard Norman
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Devotion (Houghton Mifflin)
Betrayal and forgiveness are subjects here. Howard Norman's signature melancholy pervades this exploration of romance, and he shows us how even people who...
C.K. Williams
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Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)C.K. Williams' Collected Poems covers a lifetime's
concern with ethics and personal morality. As his work proceeds, he
develops a quality of...
Vikram Chandra
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Sacred Games (Harper Collins)Gangsters, detectives, Bollywood movie stars--Chandra mobilizes the machinery of a thriller in order to reveal Bombay at its most various. Fascinating...
Norman Mailer, Part II
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The Castle in the Forest (Random House)
In the second of this two-part conversation about the bureaucratic, dim-witted culture that characterized the German provinces of Hitler's...
