Bookworm

Novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer celebrates his first published essay in the New Yorker. He tells us how his amateur interest in jazz led him to write a book...

Radiance (Counterpoint) Mark Perdue, a physics professor who we first met in Louis B. Jones' Particles of Luck, is at the farther fringe of a complete nervous breakdown..

The occasion of a Los Angeles theater festival offers playwright John Steppling (Phantom Luck) the chance to talk about theater in general and what's wrong with it.

Ann Patchett has written a book you can't put down. State of Wonder is a version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in South America in the heart of the jungle...

My New American Life is the immigrant story told in a new way. Francine Prose's touching and funny character, Lula, is used to suffering -- she comes from Albania...

The Finkler Question is the winner of this year's Booker Prize, an amazing novel in that it's many things at once: comic, melancholic, philosophical and paradoxical.

Unable to sleep after her husband, Ray Smith, died three years ago, Joyce Carol Oates spent the night keeping a journal of her day to day thoughts and experiences...

Fearless Eileen Myles discusses her fears in this autobiographical novel.

When Diane Ackerman's husband, Paul West, suffered a stroke, the couple had to learn a new way to communicate. That led him to write a new form of novel — an aphasic novel.

While the Bookworm and Harvard literary theorist Marjorie Garber disagree about nearly everything, theirs is one of the most diverting literary debates you'll likely hear.