Bookworm

Ellen Brodkey This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey (Metropolitan Books) Ellen Brodkey, widow and editor, joins Bookworm in a memorial to the life and death of American writer Harold Brodkey on the occasion of the publication of his AIDS journal.

Accordion Crimes (Scribner)In her newest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Annie Proulx presents an historical cavalcade: her vision of the violence that has been perpetuated against emergingminority cultures.

Thom Jones Cold Snap (Little Brown) More than a decade passed between the author's stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the publication of his first book. How does a writer endure the hard times?.

Lucille Clifton The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions) Her influences, inclinaiton toward short poems and decision to tell &quotthe; terrible stories" are discussed by the poet.

From Idea to Publication: Nature Writing Today A panel discussion with author Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (Ecco); Orion Magazine editor George Russell; and literary agent Elizabeth Grossman.

Going Back to Bisbee Richard Shelton (University of Arizona Press) The winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction discusses his memoir of the desert of the American Southwest.

Nature and Childhood Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree (Houghton Mifflin) and Scott Russell Sanders Writing from the Center (Indiana University Press) The writers discuss how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination.

What is Nature Literacty? Robert Hass Sun Under Wood (Ecco)David Abram The Spell of the Senuous (Pantheon)Alison Hawthorne Deming Science and Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press) Has literacy alienated us from nature? If written language is the cause of separation, can nature-writing provide a way to re-connect? The panelists strive to answer those questions, exploring early oral cultures and the development of the written alphabet.

Barry Lopez Field Notes (Avon) Can nature-writing heal the rift between civilzation and nature? Does activism disturb the making of art? National Book Award winner Lopez discusses the cultural tradition of nature writing.

Reynolds Price Three Gospels (Scribners)On the harshness of faith and the rigors of translation: To most people, the Gospels have the mellifluous sound of the King James version. Novelist Reynolds Price translates two of the Gospels from the original Greek, and the results are startling.