Bookworm

Bright Root, Dark Root The Los Angeles-based poet talks about Buddhism, spirituality and a poet's vocation.

Chimney Rock The author defends the dream-like projections of Los Angeles in his most recent novel.

A Year of Rhymes A first novel by a prize-winning poetic essayist: The writer discusses his turn to fiction, weather and death, and his interest in simplicity and sincerity.

Consider This, Senora The best-selling novelist talks about writing school, writers who have influenced her, and the particular nature of her characters.

City Poet The life and hoopla of the New York poet Frank O'Hara is described by his biographer.

The Man in the Ceiling Feiffer talks about The Man in the Ceiling--the first novel for children that he has written as well as illustrated.

Author Barbara Kingsolver discusses political fiction: the novelist's obligation to dramatize insoluble issues without falsely resolving them.

Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.