Bookworm

Author Alice McDermott discusses her darkly-tender, Irish-Catholic family novel--its structure and its meaning.

Diana Darling's charming first novel is about the intrigues of Gods and humans on the island of Bali. Bradford Morrow celebrates the anniversary of his magazine, with a special issue on folktales, fairy tales and myths.

A Case of Curiosities A young writer from Harvard reveals how to research an historical novel.

Under the 82nd Airborne (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Short story writer Debra Eisenberg discusses the mystery of how she writes.

The Buried Mirror   Carlos Fuentes on international literature and the Latin American writer.

Time's Arrow   The rude Londoner, Martin Amis, talks about morality and fiction.

Landscape Memory A young, gay novelist speaks about aesthetics.

A Thousand Acres   Jane Smiley's award-winning author discusses feminism, the problems of the American farmer and the aesthetics of fiction.

The beloved author of Where The Wild Things Are talks about The Nutcracker, and the process of writing a book that became a classic.

Darkness Visible; Sophie's Choice Styron on depression and the vileness of the world. He tells what it's like to kill off his favorite characters and survive.

Vox Nicholson Baker, the author of this best-seller, talks about intimacy, sentimentality, morality and sexuality. Sparks fly!

(editor of The Voice Literary Supplement and the anthology, Disorderly Conduct) The literary editor discusses her years as editor of the very modern and unconventional Voice Literary Supplement-- probably the most-exciting book review in America.

Spider; The New Gothic Patrick McGrath is attempting to revive the Gothic Novel. Is he riding the coattails of Stephen King and Clive Barker, or is he inventing a new kind of terror?

The Almanac of the Dead   The visionary nightmare novel took of Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko years to write. Today, she talks about the difficulty of living while writing a bleak American novel.

LA., Capital Of The World The writer discusses L.A.'s future and, autobiographically, what it's like to grow up as the son of one of the world's most-prominent literary intellectuals

The British novelist talks about love and the creation of character in fiction.

Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man The poet and novelist speaks about evil, darkness and depression.

Possession   Renowned author A.S. Byatt reveals the aesthetic theory behind her fiction.

(editor of When We Talk About Raymond Carver) Halpert discusses the late Raymond Carver and his legacy.

Maus IIWriter Art Spiegelman discusses his comic-book memoir of his father and the holocaust.