Bookworm

Glover's Mistake (Viking)

A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)
Lorrie Moore has written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work, she has published a longer novel and survived to tell the tale...

The Angel's Game (Doubleday)
Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers.

Ugly Man (Harper Collins)

Although we've followed the career of Dennis Copper from the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence—the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati.

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive) 
This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what’s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor, Álvaro Uribe, and Cristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers.  

Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)

How to Sell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turns

Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

Darkened by intimations of 9/11, Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novel

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Penguin Press)

Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...

Sunnyside (Knopf)
What a charming raconteur Glen David Gold is, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War I...