Bookworm

Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (Harper Collins)
Author Art Spiegelman and editor Francoise Mouly introduce Little Lit, their new collection of comics by world-renowned children's book artists and underground cartoonists-all based on fairy tales, all for kids, all in color and beautiful beyond belief.

Our Heartbreaking Group of Staggering Geniuses comes to its conclusion with "Grandmaster" Wallace: a conversation about difficulty , gender, transgression and the use of received ideas-all earmarks of staggering genius.

In George Saunder's dystopian theme parks, the American Dream festers and thrives fertilized by self-help movements and Big Brother type cults.

Mark Danielewski builds a haunted house out of the pages of his first novel. It has dark passages, ghostly echoes (of the great books of the past) and a monster at its center. 

Period (Grove)
Dennis Cooper is one of the originators of the new fiction. We look at the violently sexual five-book series he recently completed with Period. We focus on its interior design, its aesthetics and, in particular, the sense of integration Cooper feels at the conclusion of his ten-year project.