Bookworm

(Getty Series)Troupe, who co-authored the controversial, award-winning autobiography of Miles Davis, speaks about the process of inhabiting another person's memories. He explores music as a structuring principle of memory and reveals the musical origins of his own poetry.

(Getty Series) Cisneros describes an autobiographical childhood incident and demonstrates how she transformed it into her most popular short story, "Eleven.;"

The Matisse Stories Author A.S. Byatt defends art-for-art's-sake against the incursions of multi-cultural politics.

Dreaming A nuts-and-bolts conversation about truth-telling and family history.

Trinity Fields A conversation about secrets--political, personal and spiritual--and how they drive a story.

Wonder Boys   Young Michael Chabon discusses his feelings about the blocked, frustrated writers and editors who people his new novel...

After Warhol: Two survivors of the original Warhol Underground Films (Chelsea Girls, Vinyl, Kitchenette, etc.) discuss artistic life after Andy.

(marketing manager of Small Press Distribution) How to find out about the vibrant writers emerging today? How to find their books? A conversation with someone who knows the answers--about small presses and how they fit into the current book-selling scene.

Let the Dog Drive The author's indefatigable adventures drove his wild book from the obscurity of an unknown press to cult status and major-league paperback publication.

Poetry, memory and the Chicana writer. Author Sandra Cisneros talks about identity, the sexual revolution and self-motivation.

How Late It Was, How LateThe Scottish novelist whose recent book won the Booker Prize discusses current Scottish literature, the influence of the supernatural story and the fiction of the lower class.

Assembling California; The Ransom of Russian Art Essayist John McPhee talks about the essay as literature.

The Following Story   Death and metamorphosis play important roles in Cees Nooteboom's award-winning new novel...

But for the Lovers Nolledo---s long-out-of-print cult novel has been republished, provoking a conversation about literary destiny, and the complex position of a Philippine-born novelist writing in America.

The Inhabited Woman Activism, magic realism, Pablo Neruda, incantation, politics and history in the work of Gioconda Belli.

Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.

Family In this conversation about autobiography, history and the texture of memory, the author discusses the dangers he faced in using a passionate, sincere style.

Collected Poems The award-winning poet reads from his work and discusses the formal structures behind his informal subject matter.