Bookworm

Tales of romance and adventure inspire Jesse Ball's novellas and prose poems....

At age sixteen Jon-Jon Goulian started to wear women's clothes — he couldn't say why. At age forty he wrote this memoir to account for his fascination with androgyny...

After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus .

A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...

The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious' son, Abdul...(Part 2 of 2)

The author of Push, on which the film Precious was based, has a new novel, The Kid, told from the point of view of Precious' son, Abdul...(Part 1 of 2)

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."

Dora Malech explores the violence of relationships...

Oncologist and novelist Chris Adrian talks about how his need to tell and hear stories has helped him through his difficult work with children.

John Sayles on how a writer gathers knowledge, the language, the unusual perspectives and the humanity to illuminate the whole arc of our history...