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January 01, 1990 - December 13, 2012 + Bookworm
Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat 
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Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes (Knopf)The great Stephen Sondheim has at last produced a collection...
Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
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Lord of Misrule (McPherson)
Jaimy Gordon is a recently-discovered American novelist with an original voice and vision. Her National Book Award-winning novel, Lord of Misrule, is...
Nicole Krauss: Great House
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Great House (Norton)
Nicole Krauss is more sensitive to emotional textures and to characters than she is to conventional plot. Here, she speaks about how the...
Leslie Marmon Silko: The Turquoise Ledge
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The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir ( Viking)
The Sonoran desert, its creatures and features, its ants and plants, becomes the classroom for that most trans-human of...
Breyten Breytenbach on His Literature, Anti-Apartheid Activism
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Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago); Intimate Stranger (Archipelago); Notes from the Middle World (Haymarket Books)
As a writer, South African-born Breyten Breytenbach...
Lan Samantha Chang: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
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All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost (Norton)
This short novel emerged virtually whole — unique in the writing life of its author, Lan Samantha Chang. Perhaps...
Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room
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Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon)
The complexities of race and community are at the center of Susan Straight's lively discussion about family, memory, migration...
Mona Simpson: My Hollywood
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My Hollywood (Knopf)
Mona Simpson's new novel corkscrews its way into the heart of a Santa Monica marriage, a marriage in which child raising duties are...
Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth
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Bitter in the Mouth (Random House)
Monique Truong is an intransigent—she will not settle for anyone's desire to interpret or in any way falsity the world...
Tom McCarthy: C
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Tom McCarthy's C (Knopf) is one of those post-modern novels designed to drill a hole in your head and help you inventory the contents of...
Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon)
Charles Yu's sweeter-spirited vision of how vintage science fiction can be used to imagine our world....
Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
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The Four Fingers of Death (Little, Brown)
Rick Moody creates a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga, basing his story on a cheapo so-bad-it's-good sci-fi classic...
Howard Norman: What Is Left the Daughter
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What Is Left the Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Howard Norman's Wyatt Hillyer has good reason to be blocked: His parents committed
suicide within an hour of...
Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story
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Super Sad True Love Story (Random House)
Can Lenny and Eunice find love in a futuristic America in which computer screens instantly and constantly reveal economic...
Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books)
Maile Meloy’s stories go shooting off in such surprising and unpredictable directions that a reader...
