KCRW's Bookworm
KCRW's Bookworm
A must for the serious reader Bookworm showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established new or emerging - all interviewed with ...
Orhan Pamuk, Part I
The Museum of Innocence (Knopf)Infidelity and adultery are two of the great subjects of the novel tradition ? think of Anna Karenina or ...
A.S. Byatt
The Children's Book (Knopf)As the vast array of subjects presented in A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book parades past ? puppetry, ...
Tao Lin
Shoplifting from American Apparel (Melville House)
Although he has had five books published--two novels, a book of stories and two books of ...
Brenda Hillman
Practical Water ( Wesleyan)
Brenda Hillman's work has been described as difficult and experimental, but we beg to disagree. Here, we hear ...
Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood (Doubleday)
Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel, The Year of the Flood, takes place ...
James Galvin
As Is (Copper Canyon)One of our most tender poets (tough but tender), James Galvin, investigates his growing tendency toward poems ...
Nicholson Baker
The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster)The polymath Nicholson Baker has been able to create a version of himself in the figure of ...
Nick Laird
Glover's Mistake (Viking)
In this novel of love, manipulation and deception, Nick Laird attempts one of the trickiest strategies in the ...
Lorrie Moore
A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)
Lorrie Moore has written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel's Game (Doubleday)Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical ...
Dennis Cooper
Ugly Man (Harper Collins)
Although we've followed the career of Dennis Copper from the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a ...
Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of ...