Bookworm

Michael Silverblatt and a young Los Angeles writer, Chuck Wilson, talk with Pauline Kael about her book, Movie Love.

The Revolution of Little GirlsNovelist and lesbian Blanche Boyd discusses childhood and writing.

The Almanac Branch The editor of Conjunctions, the post-modern literary magazine, discusses the techniques and strategies of his recent novel.

Cures The historian's autobiography deals with homosexuality and psychoanalysis in the America of the 1950's and 60's.

A Soldier of the Great War   Mark Helprin writes about aesthetics, war and love in his new novel set in Italy during World War I.

The Kitchen God's Wife; The Joy Luck Club As author Amy Tan examines the image of the passive, compliant, Asian-American woman, she reveals some personal secrets.

Wall To WallThe author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.

Wall To Wall The author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.

U and INicholson Baker, the American chronicler of berserk technology talks about his imaginary friendship with John Updike.