Bookworm

Social historian Mary F. Corey joins David Remnic, the new editor of the New Yorker, for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's. Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Mid-Century (Harvard). A social historian joins the new editor of the New Yorker for a look at the world as it was projected by this influential magazine in the 1950's.

Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive) This novel describes a man who remembers his father mostly through the TV shows they watched together...

Marina Warner &quotNo; Go the Bogeyman" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The dark side of fairy tales. A conversation about the cultural persistence of the threateners of children, ogres, cannibals, vampires and kidnapers-with a special guest appearance by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Harry Mathews &quotOulipo; Compendium" (Atlas) Poet-novelist Harry Mathews discusses a unique literary movement and shows how strong emotion can penetrate even the most whimsical and arbitrary forms.

Bret Easton Ellis &quotGlamorama;" (Knopf) He has been rejected by critics and reviled by Gen X, yet Bret Easton Ellis reaches to the core of an eerie American phenomenon: the postmodern fusion of terror and irony.

Mitch Sisskind &quotDivine; Deception: The Inner Gender of Gender" (Earl University Press) A maverick scholar unravels the secret hoaxes that have masked the sexuality of many authors of Western Literature-from the Bible to the internet.

Nuruddin Farah &quotSecrets;" (Arcade) An extraordinary conversation about the Somali author's language and family. The sounds of a mother's speech patterns initiate a web of recollection-magic realism from a deep, personal wellspring.

Kevin Killian &quotPoet; Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance" (Wesleyan/New England) Jack Spicer was the maddest, loneliest and most inspired poet on the Berkeley arts scene. His biographer makes sense of Spicer's techniques for rearranging the senses.

Irvine Welsh &quotFilth;" (Norton) From anarchism (Trainspotting) to fascism (Filth): Irvine Welsh on his gallery of outsiders.

T.C. Boyle Stories (Viking) T.C. Boyle describes the styles and attitudes that have earned him a trademark in the writing of short stories.