Bookworm

The Book of Dreams   Craig Nova discusses the tough guy and ---noir--- novel as points of origin for his dark investigation of the California dream.

School for the Blind Grief, suicide and death are central to Dennis McFarland---s fiction; in this interview he examines some of the reasons why.

Editor, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan The late Ted Berrigan---s influence on the New York School of Poets is discussed by his friend and editor.

Rise the Euphrates The Armenian genocide provides the background for this multi-generational first-novel.

Now You See Her Aging and its metaphors are discussed by the author of How to Make an American Quilt.

Try   Novelist Dennis Cooper discusses the aesthetics of violence and pornography and the special syntax of Generation X.

The October Palace; Women in Praise of the Sacred Devotional literature, Buddhism, and the relationship between poetry and personal theology are discussed by the poet-anthologist.

The Alienist The development of American psychology at the turn of the century is the intellectual linchpin of this popular thriller.

The Orange Tree   Noted intellectual and diplomat Carlos Fuentes explores eroticism in fiction.