Bookworm

Mark Slouka explores passion as an alternative to irony in the creation of dramatic, lyrical prose.

Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam completes the dystopian trilogy that began with "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."

Cathleen Schine says that she – and her writing – survive by seeing the humor in her life.

Peter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."

Greer on his heroine's late wish to escape the troubled 1980's, his experience inhabiting a female narrative voice and the gender traveling implicit in his latest novel.

Linda Spalding on her historical novel, the story of an abolitionist in Antebellum America forced to buy a slave, and the inherent conflicts of spirit and commerce.

The author of "Shoplifting from American Apparel" on writing his latest novel, written in meticulously careful prose.

Scottish writer James Kelman on his penchant for internal dialogue and his a working-class romance set in modern-day London. 

Canadian poet and professor Anne Carson on cultural life in the wake of classical knowledge, and her poetry novels Autobiography of Red and the follow-up, Red Doc>.

Tom Drury latest novel follows a resident of his fictional Grouse County who has moved to Los Angeles to reunite with his mother, co-star of a New-Agey TV series.