Bookworm

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.

Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez  about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea to tape record her friends on the beach in East Hampton. The result was Talk, in which anything could become a subject for conversation – it was all discussed. 

Christian Kracht's Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas is a satirical parable that sees fanaticism as the root of German culture and imperialist culture in general. 

Amy Gerstler's new book of poems is an exploration of getting lost, the unknown, mortality and remembrance. 

Vendela Vida's new novel is a story of identity, a recurring mystery in her work. We get to the bottom of why identity is her obsession. 

This darkly nihilistic book masquerading as a comedy is as much a commentary on society as it is the story of a bad script-writer.

The "voice of NPR book reviews" takes a singular opportunity – the discussion of his own novel with KCRW's bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.

The Argonauts is a work of "auto-theory" in which theory is put to the test against life experience.