Bookworm

Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin)

A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions and contractions of language and, in particular, his creation of double-gendered narration are explored, explained, exhibited and exclaimed over.(Part I of a two-part interview)

In part two of this interview with Salman Rushdie, we consider the wilder aspects of Fury: the influence of science fiction, surrealism and film. Special attention is paid to the blurring distinction between humans and machines and the painful irony implicit in the difficulty of making such a distinction. (Part one aired October 4.) 

In the first of a two-part interview, Salman Rushdie explores the politics, psychology and sociology of his first America-set novel, Fury.

Book of My Nights (BOA Editions)

Li-Young Lee's poetry has moved beyond the details of his Chinese upbringing to an investigation of what he calls "primal silence..."

Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine); Adrienne Sharp, White Swan, Black Swan (Random House) Marisa Silver, Babe in Paradise (Norton)

Fearless Jones (Little Brown)

Walter Mosley is best known for his noir mysteries. With books set in the black communities of Los Angeles, he writes the hidden histories of race, sensuality, crime and cultural aspiration....

Bel Canto (Harper Collins)

Ann Patchett knows that a novel is an author's private kingdom-problems the world can't solve can be solved within the pages of a book...

Carry Me Across the Water (Random House)

Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of their parents...