Bookworm

Atticus Lish's debut novel won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural.

Valeria Luiselli's first novel reminds us of what it's like to be young and in love with literature. 

We talk to author Per Petterson, editor Ethan Nosowsky, and publisher Geir Berdahl about the what it takes to bring a book to life and about the changing world of publishing. 

Thomas McGuane's new book of stories is a demonstration model of his verbal surprises and his deep insight into his characters.

Per Petterson's I Refuse is a beautiful and lyrical symphony of sadness, grief and loss.

Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book as a look at the concept of societal memory.

The border between poetry and fiction is dismantled when the poet/author is Luis Alberto Urrea. 

In talking about his new novel, David Vann tells us how the characters were born of staring for hours at different delicate fish until they revealed who he was supposed to write about. 

Charles Baxter takes us through the pleasure of discovering books for what might be called the "hidden bookshelf." 

Charles Baxter examines the elements of virtue and vice in his new collection of short stories.