Bookworm

Vox Nicholson Baker, the author of this best-seller, talks about intimacy, sentimentality, morality and sexuality. Sparks fly!

(editor of The Voice Literary Supplement and the anthology, Disorderly Conduct) The literary editor discusses her years as editor of the very modern and unconventional Voice Literary Supplement-- probably the most-exciting book review in America.

Spider; The New Gothic Patrick McGrath is attempting to revive the Gothic Novel. Is he riding the coattails of Stephen King and Clive Barker, or is he inventing a new kind of terror?

The Almanac of the Dead   The visionary nightmare novel took of Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko years to write. Today, she talks about the difficulty of living while writing a bleak American novel.

LA., Capital Of The World The writer discusses L.A.'s future and, autobiographically, what it's like to grow up as the son of one of the world's most-prominent literary intellectuals

The British novelist talks about love and the creation of character in fiction.

Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man The poet and novelist speaks about evil, darkness and depression.

Possession   Renowned author A.S. Byatt reveals the aesthetic theory behind her fiction.

(editor of When We Talk About Raymond Carver) Halpert discusses the late Raymond Carver and his legacy.

Maus IIWriter Art Spiegelman discusses his comic-book memoir of his father and the holocaust.