Bookworm

Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.

For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.

The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.

Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.

Part II. Ereveyev, whose work provoked a scandal, discusses Post-Glasnost Soviet Fiction.

A Russian Beauty Part I: The Russian Dissident novelist discusses Russian Gothic writing from Gogol on.

Swimming in the Volcano Michael Silverblatt moderates a conversation on the art of fiction writing between Bob Shacochis and his former student, journalist Jamie Diamond.

Woman of the Inner Sea The inner journey and transformation of a woman who has endured catastrophe is the subject of the Australian novelist's new book.

Against Forgetting The award-winning poet talks about poetry's role in addressing the political atrocities of our century.