Bookworm

This month, at 87, Czeslaw Milosz sees the publication of his newest book, A Roadside Dog. (Part four of four)

The Captive Mind and the move to California.  (Part three of four)

Genocide, war and the destruction of his homeland bring a dark vision into Czeslaw Milosz's poetry. (Part two of four)

Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz's memories of childhood make for a poetry of ecstasy and initiation. (Part one of four)

Karen Elizabeth Gordon, author of Torn Wings and Faux Pas (Pantheon) . The uniquely crazy lexicographer discusses her fairy-tale dictionary-explosion novels.

In this exclusive interview on the subject of her classic novel Beloved (Knopf), Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison discusses areas of the writer's imagination that can't be captured by the film.

Kenward Elmslie, author of Routine Disruptions (Coffee House Press). Finally--a collection of poems that ranges across wizard-poet Elmslie's career. Be sure to hear &quotGirl; Machine" -- an entire Busby Berkeley musical in a single poem. Hands down, Bookworm's favorite living American poet.

Peter Hedges, author of An Ocean in Iowa (Hyperion). The author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape has written a new novel of childhood angst. Hedges explores his access to childhood memories and the difficulties of being a minister's son.

A selection of stories--classic and new--by Ann Beattie, a woman who changed the emotional color of American fiction...

Almost No Memory (Ecco) Lydia Davis, the author of peculiar miniature prose pieces reads and discusses her explorations of the space between the intellect and the physical world.