Bookworm

Consider This, Senora The best-selling novelist talks about writing school, writers who have influenced her, and the particular nature of her characters.

City Poet The life and hoopla of the New York poet Frank O'Hara is described by his biographer.

Joyce Carol Oates discusses issues of feminism and narrative strategy in her novel about a girl gang, set in the late 50's.

The Man in the Ceiling Feiffer talks about The Man in the Ceiling--the first novel for children that he has written as well as illustrated.

Pigs in Heaven Author Barbara Kingsolver discusses political fiction: the novelist's obligation to dramatize insoluble issues without falsely resolving them.

Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.

Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.

For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.

The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.

Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.