Bookworm

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks (Scribner)

Fact and fiction. Robin Romm has written a book of short stories and now a memoir arising from one central event: her mother’s gradual death by cancer...

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part I of this interview aired March 12.)

Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” (Part II of this interview airs on March 19.)

Out of My Skin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

An existential novel (think Camus’ The Stranger) LA-style. When

Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered

The Mirror in the Well (Dalkey Archive)

Micheline Marcom's works squeeze themselves between uncomfortable alternatives: Is her new novel, The Mirror in the Well, erotic or pornographic?

Kimono My House  (Island Def Jam); Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)
After years of yearning, Bookworm talks with his favorite rock band about the art of writing pop songs.  Join us in this celebration of their 21st album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep.

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House)
Azar Nafisi is one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writing Reading Lolita in Tehran,

A Mercy (Knopf)
In this second half of our two-part interview with Toni Morrison, the conversation continues in an attempt to discover the way a novel is built.

Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Harcourt)
What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie we