Bookworm

James Franco says literature was his emotional and intellectual escape valve from the alternate reality of filmmaking, performance, and celebrity.

Allan Gurganus says the three novellas that comprise his new book, "Local Souls," were written as modern fables or fairy tales.

Alice McDermott once felt a fear that her new novel would be seen as just another of her perfect Irish American novels. Instead it leaps from the page.

Four linked novellas explore the poignant interior lives of small-town characters who are usually unseen and unknown.

Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies, you've got a novel.

Jonathan Lethem’s latest chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century.

An aristocratic Liberian woman is left bereft and exiled on a remote Aegean island during her country's second civil war…

Part memoir, part literary criticism, part self-analysis, Rebecca Solnit's latest is an inter-genre meditation on the ways our lives are orchestrated by stories.

Van Dyke Parks on his multifaceted career as a lyricist, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, on the heels of his first studio album in nearly twenty years.

This garden of literary and visual delights, edited by Russ Kick, wondrously illustrates the arc of 20th century literature by over 80 graphic artists.