Bookworm

Part II. Ereveyev, whose work provoked a scandal, discusses Post-Glasnost Soviet Fiction.

A Russian Beauty Part I: The Russian Dissident novelist discusses Russian Gothic writing from Gogol on.

Swimming in the Volcano Michael Silverblatt moderates a conversation on the art of fiction writing between Bob Shacochis and his former student, journalist Jamie Diamond.

Woman of the Inner Sea The inner journey and transformation of a woman who has endured catastrophe is the subject of the Australian novelist's new book.

Against Forgetting The award-winning poet talks about poetry's role in addressing the political atrocities of our century.

Oscar Hijuelos discusses the contrast between the light, happy tone of his new novel and the darkness of his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings.

Writing Dangerously The National Book Critic's Circle Award went to this biography of Mary McCarthy. Biographer Carol Brightman and Mary McCarthy's brother, Kevin McCarthy, reminisce about Mary's literary career.

Novelist /film critic Steve Erickson discusses the unusual narrative strategies that help him to explore the contemporary abyss.

The Jade Cabinet Fairy tales, dreams and ecological feminism are where this writer's mythic novels originate.

Dog Man Stories One of the funniest writers in America writes about pit bulls and the men who raise them and talks about the language he uses to write about American cultures.