Bookworm

Silk Parachute (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
John McPhee, our nation’s premier essayist—the man who helped raise creative non-fiction to an art form—speaks about the intricacy of his writing process...

Just Kids (Ecco)

In the second of this two-part interview we hear about Patti Smith as a bookworm. You probably know about her love for Rimbaud, but did you know she worships the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov and his great novel, The Master and Margarita? A voracious reader, Smith has written three unpublished novels and has created hundreds of visual pieces. She speaks of her unbounded appetite for creativity.

Just Kids (Ecco)

Poverty and insanity are terrible things—but then there is bohemian poverty and insanity, and these are infused with the romance of becoming an artist. In the first of this two-part interview, Patti Smith speaks of her youth in New York, when she and Robert Mapplethorpe sought to manifest their artistic ambitions...

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)
Our conversation with Javier Marías continues. What if ten minutes of espionage took a hundred pages to fully describe? Here we explore time and consciousness in what will possibly be the greatest trilogy of our new century.

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)
What if Henry James — the patron saint of convolution — could be resurrected? What if he wrote a novel of espionage so complex it became a trilogy? Spanish writer Javier Marías has stepped in and taken on the epic task...

Sonata Mulattica (Norton)

The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams ComicArts)

TOON Books and Raw Books co-editors Spiegelman and Mouly tunneled through archives and private collections to create this perfect anthology of classic children's comics, the spunky kids and sassy animals you may envision at the edges of your memory. Walk down memory's backs streets with us when we explore the golden age of someone else's childhood.

Chronic City (Doubleday)

Jonathan Lethem began his career with Philip K. Dick-inspired science fiction, then he turned to writing the more realistic books that brought him to prominence. Here, we discuss the fusion of the two...

Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)

When Flats and Quake were published, the sixties were ending, and these novels can be said to chronicle the death of a dream. (Part I airs January 14)

Nog (Two Dollar Radio); Flats / Quake (Two Dollar Radio)

In this first of two interviews, Wurlitzer takes us time-traveling back to the late 1960's when Nog was published and his first screen plays (Two Lane Blacktop, Glen and Randa)