Bookworm

James McCourt's novelistic memoir collages together vignettes of personal and queer community history in the New York City of mid-century.

Our master of seductive street-slang on seduction and its relation to fiction. Can a writer seduce you?  Junot Díaz describes what he calls "the shock of representation."

A trenchant "comic journalist" depicting the horrors of human conflicts, Joe Sacco's latest work is an astonishing panorama of the Battle of the Somme...

On its 40th-anniversary, Jong clarifies "Fear of Flying's" earnest philosophical motives, and identifies her literary influences, from Shakespeare to Pauline Réage.

Self’s striking novel about loss, language, and perception after the First World War -- and a bold departure from the satirical mode he is best known for.

After the deaths of husband and daughter, Joan Didion wrote the most personal and poetic book of her impressive career...

James Franco says literature was his emotional and intellectual escape valve from the alternate reality of filmmaking, performance, and celebrity.

Allan Gurganus says the three novellas that comprise his new book, "Local Souls," were written as modern fables or fairy tales.

Alice McDermott once felt a fear that her new novel would be seen as just another of her perfect Irish American novels. Instead it leaps from the page.

Four linked novellas explore the poignant interior lives of small-town characters who are usually unseen and unknown.