Bookworm

A summit conference on Richard Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, said to be full of arrogance and irony, is actually about compromise and sincerity.

Robert Bly The Sibling Society (Addison Wesley)The relationship between interpretation and story-telling stands, in this conversation,for the relationships between meaning and action, old and young, responsibility and shallowness.

Grace Paley The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The invaluable, funny, mischief-makerGrace Paley speaks of Jews, men, politics, children and the voices that have entered her permanent, memorable stories.

Barbara Guest Selected Poems; Fair Realism (Sun & Moon) &quotWhat; is Truth?" is the central questionof Modern Poetry. Barbara Guest approaches that question delicately, wittily and unpretentiously.

Remote (Knopf)

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Random House)

Duff Brenna: The Holy Book of the Beard and Jennifer Egan: Emerald City and Other Stories

Moo (Ballantine)

Hans Magnus Enzenberger Civil Wars (The New Press) The eminent German poet and culture critic explores the future of literacy and literary culture. A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.

Zamora Zinmark Rolling the R's (Kaya Production) A spiky new Asian-American voice tells de-centered tales of Honolulu pop culture.