Bookworm

The nightmare continues. After the success of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby pursues his bleak vision in Waiting Period...

In the first of a two-part interview, Hubert Selby, Jr, now in his seventies, reviews and relives the tumult created by his debut novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Ron Padgett tells the story of three writers who traveled from Tulsa to Manhattan and became the leaders of the second generation of the New York School of Poetry.

Jeffrey Eugenides' multi-generational novel in which a Greek-American family, replete with elements of Greek tragedy (incest, hermaphroditism), witnesses American history.

In this edgy conversation, author Jonathan Franzen and his interviewer take positions, argue, reverse positions and start again...

Tell Me (Counterpoint); Why Did I Ever (Counterpoint)

Mary Robison returns to her student days of writing stories for John Barth's workshop, and the days of being edited by Roger Angell, for The New Yorker, and by Gordon Lish, for book publication at Knopf. These teachers and editors both shaped and thwarted her enigmatic, instinctually accurate style...

In this moving interview, Sandra Cisneros reveals the connection between history and family history: the processes of memory....

Joyce Carol Oates' I'll Take You There (Ecco) appears to be a novel about college in the 1960s and interracial dating. At its heart, though, it pits skeptical against mystical philosophy...