Bookworm

How Late It Was, How LateThe Scottish novelist whose recent book won the Booker Prize discusses current Scottish literature, the influence of the supernatural story and the fiction of the lower class.

Assembling California; The Ransom of Russian Art Essayist John McPhee talks about the essay as literature.

The Following Story   Death and metamorphosis play important roles in Cees Nooteboom's award-winning new novel...

But for the Lovers Nolledo---s long-out-of-print cult novel has been republished, provoking a conversation about literary destiny, and the complex position of a Philippine-born novelist writing in America.

The Inhabited Woman Activism, magic realism, Pablo Neruda, incantation, politics and history in the work of Gioconda Belli.

Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.

Family In this conversation about autobiography, history and the texture of memory, the author discusses the dangers he faced in using a passionate, sincere style.

Collected Poems The award-winning poet reads from his work and discusses the formal structures behind his informal subject matter.