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Mark Helprin
O'Brien; Sullivan; Sorrentino
Manuel Puig
Julian Barnes and Kazou Ishiguro
Oliver Sacks: Seeing Voices
Cynthia Kadohata and Briah Kiteley
Tracy Kidder
Alice Adams
Sisters in Crime
Michael Dorris
Wizard of Oz
Grandstreet
Ishmael Reed
Mary Morris; Michael Goth
Amy Tan and Faith Sale
Dennis Cooper
Greil Marcus
Poets under 35
Lynn Sharon Schwartz
Elmore Leonard; John Steppling
James Merrill; Stephen Yenser
Jane Vandenberg
John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Tim Cahill; Mitch Siskind
Ray Blount Jr.
Edrianos; Beyond Baroque
Literature & Puzzles
Tobias Wolf; Doug Dutton
Jay Gummerman; Oakley Hall
Neal Gabler
William Kotzwinkle
Robert Kirgo; Eastman Lyons
Kendall Hailey; Sisterhood Bookstore
David Leavitt; J Herman
Tim Miller; Paul Manette
Sandra Dykstra; A. Scott Berg
Douglas Messerli; John F. Baker
Friends of Michael
Chapter 9: Grief and Loss
Poetry
The Story of America, Pt. 3
The Story of America, Pt. 2
The Story of America, Pt. 1
The Confederacy of Bookworms
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.2
The Nobel Laureates, Pt.1
The Arc of Bookworm
Michelle Huneven: ‘Search’
Natalia Molina: ‘A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community’
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works” (Re-air)
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (Re-air)
Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets” (Re-air)
Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’
Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’
Tao Lin’s ‘Leave Society’ shifts the author’s perspective to love and kindness
Zac Smith’s ‘Everything is Totally Fine,’ the book that reopened Tao Lin’s Muumuu House
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments
Sheila Heti: “Pure Colour”
Tom Bissell: ‘Creative Types: and Other Stories’
Tessa Hadley: “Free Love”
Antoine Wilson: “Mouth to Mouth”
John Keene: “Punks: New & Selected Poems” (The Song Cave)
In Memory of Joan Didion: 'Blue Nights'
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 2)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 1)
Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 2)
Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 1)
Louise Erdrich: “The Sentence”
Sandra Cisneros: “Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo”
Diane Williams: “How High? – That High”
Mary Gaitskill: “The Devil's Treasure”
Teresa K. Miller with Carol Muske-Dukes “Borderline Fortune”
Atsuro Riley: “Heard-Hoard”
Jackie Kay: “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend”
Rabih Alameddine: “The Wrong End of the Telescope”
Richard Powers: “Bewilderment”
Dennis Cooper: “I Wished”
Alice McDermott: “What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction”
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Ron and Russell Mael: “Annette”
Rikki Ducornet: “Trafik”
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 2)
Yaa Gyasi: “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing” (Part 1)
Jack Skelley: “Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson”
Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works”
Amy Gerstler: “Index of Women”
Joshua Cohen: 'The Netanyahus'
Joan Silber: 'Secrets of Happiness'
Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman: “Street Cop”
Edward St. Aubyn: 'Double Blind'
Domenico Ingenito: 'Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry'
Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret
Sandi Tan: 'Lurkers'
Rachel Cusk: “Second Place”
George Toles: 'Status Update'
Rachel Kushner: “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020”
Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse”
Wayne Koestenbaum: “The Cheerful Scapegoat”
Kazuo Ishiguro: “Klara and the Sun”
A Kazuo Ishiguro Retrospective
Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets”
Carol Edgarian: “Vera”
A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Time of Useful Consciousness”
Viet Thanh Nguyen: “The Committed”
Ann Beattie: A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
David Duchovny: “Truly Like Lightning”
George Saunders “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” (Part 2)
George Saunders: “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” (Part 1)
Rebecca Sacks: “City of a Thousand Gates”
Eileen Myles: “For Now (Why I Write)”
Alan Felsenthal and Peter Cole discuss Harold Bloom’s “Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death”
Susan Taubes, introduction by David Rieff: “Divorcing”
Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: “The Freezer Door”
EJen Craig: “Panthers and the Museum of Fire”
Mary Ruefle: Dunce
Douglas Stuart: “Shuggie Bain”
Charles Baxter: 'The Sun Collective'
Nicole Krauss: 'To Be a Man'
Mauro Javier Cárdenas: “Aphasia”
Douglas Stuart: “Shuggie Bain”
Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
Marilynne Robinson: 'Jack'
Walter Mosley: “The Awkward Black Man”
Barbara Kingsolver: “How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)”
Jay Parini: “Borges and Me: An Encounter”
Aracelis Girmay: “How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”
Mitch Sisskind: “Collected Poems 2005-2020”
Henri Cole: Blizzard
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “Likes”
Edmund White “A Saint from Texas”
Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part 2)
Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine' (Part 1)
Margot Livesey: “The Boy in the Field”
Daphne Merkin: “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love”
Zadie Smith: “On Beauty”
Alex Halberstadt: "Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning"
Scott Spencer: “An Ocean Without a Shore”
Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness
Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Little Blue Kite
Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature
Victoria Chang: Love, Love (Part 2)
Victoria Chang: Obit (Part 1)
Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work
Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll
Rob Doyle: Threshold
Ariana Reines: A Sand Book
Charles North: Everything and Other Poems
Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
Rebecca Solnit: Recollections of My Nonexistence
Stephen Wright: Processed Cheese
Jenny Offill: Weather
Steven Sater: Alice By Heart
Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
Translators Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell, and Katie Lateef-Jan: The Promise and Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
Tobias Wolff: This Boy’s Life
Fanny Howe: Love and I
Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Jonathan Blum: The Usual Uncertainties
Ben Lerner: The Topeka School
André Aciman: Find Me
Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck
Adina Hoffman on 'Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures'
Chris Ware: Rusty Brown
Lawrence Weschler: And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Lynda Barry: Making Comics
Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein: A Love Story
Lynda Barry and Chris Ware: Making Comics and Rusty Brown
John Freeman and Robin Coste Lewis Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on California
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work
Salman Rushdie: Quichotte (Part 2)
Salman Rushdie: Quichotte (Part 1)
Emma Donoghue: Akin
Cathleen Schine: The Grammarians
Mary Ruefle: Dunce
Katya Apekina: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
Sarah Rose Etter: The Book of X
Peter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Toni Morrison Tribute
Howard Rodman: The Great Eastern
Ariana Reines: A Sand Book
Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
David Trinidad, Amy Gerstler, Ruth Greenstein: Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
David Trinidad: Swinging on a Star
Laila Lalami: The Other Americans
Seth: Clyde Fans
Ann Beattie: A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
Dave Eggers: The Parade
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Terrance Hayes: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
ENafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People
Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
John Lanchester: The Wall
Nathan Englander: kaddish.com
Chris Cander: The Weight of a Piano
Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive
Elizabeth McCracken: Bowlaway
Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End
Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star Trilogy
Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters
Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley: Permanent Green Light
Sam Lipsyte: Hark
Amanda Sthers: Holy Lands
Tosh Berman: Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World
Mary Ruefle: My Private Property
Diane Williams: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
John Wray: Godsend
Jeff Jackson: Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
Edward M. Burns and Jim Gauer: Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
Katharine Weber: Still Life with Monkey
Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered
Leland de la Durantaye: Hannah Versus the Tree
Brian Phillips: Impossible Owls
Eileen Myles: Evolution
Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again
Susan Orlean: The Library Book
Tommy Orange: There There
Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success
Patrick deWitt: French Exit
Edward St. Aubyn: The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
Joshua Cohen and Samuel Nicholson: ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
Joshua Cohen: ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
Mary Cappello, James Morrison, Jean Walton Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration
Joshua Mattson: A Short Film About Disappointment
B. Catling: The Vorhh Trilogy (Part 2)
B. Catling: The Vorhh Trilogy (Part 1)
Christian Kracht: The Dead
Lydia Millet: Fight No More
David Sedaris: Calypso
Joseph McBride with Nicola Lubitsch: How Did Lubitsch Do It?
Presenting The Organist from McSweeney's
Lauren Groff: Florida
A.M. Homes Days of Awe: Stories
Rita Bullwinkel: Belly Up
Michael Ondaatje: Warlight (Part 2)
Michael Ondaatje: Warlight (Part 1)
Mary Gaitskill: Somebody with a Little Hammer
Linda Spalding: A Reckoning
Shauna Barbosa: Cape Verdean Blues
Joyce Carol Oates: A Book of American Martyrs
Leslie Jamison: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room
Carol Muske-Dukes: Blue Rose
Christine Schutt: Pure Hollywood
Junot Diaz: Islandborn
Lynne Tillman: Men and Apparitions
Sean Penn: Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff
Roberta Allen: The Princess of Herself
Ann Beattie and Richard Bausch: The Complete Stories of Peter Taylor
Mokhtar Alkhanshali and Dave Eggers: The Monk of Mokha
André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name / Enigma Variations
Scott McClanahan: The Sarah Book / Crapalachia: A Biography of Place
Víctor Terán and David Shook: Like A New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry
Matthew McIntosh: theMystery.doc
Jane Gillette: The Trail of the Demon and Other Stories
Ursula LeGuin
Isabel Allende: In the Midst of Winter
Chris Kraus: After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
Joe Hagan: Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé
Anne Fadiman: The Wine Lover's Daughter
William H. Gass Tribute
Charmaine Craig: Miss Burma
Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach
Wallace Shawn: Night Thoughts
Mark Danielewski: The Familiar, Volume 5
Sparks (Part II)
Sparks (Part I)
Eileen Myles: Afterglow (a dog memoir)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Stephen Greenblatt: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Nicole Krauss: Forest Dark
Andrew Sean Greer: Less
Matthew Klam: Who Is Rich?
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Familiar
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part II)
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I)
Danzy Senna: New People
Ryan Gattis: Safe
Deborah Treisman: The Dream Colony
Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Jim Gauer: Novel Explosives
Joshua Cohen: Moving Kings
Peter Cole: Hymns & Qualms
Zachary Mason: Void Star
Alan Felsenthal: Lowly
Yiyun Li: Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life
Colm Tóibín: House of Names
Claudio Magris: Blameless
Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret
Richard Bausch: Living in the Weather of the World
Ron Padgett: Motor Maids across the Continent
Steven Moore: My Back Pages
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: Of Mongrelitude
Elif Batuman: The Idiot
George Toles: Paul Thomas Anderson
Emil Ferris: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Gary Groth on Fantagraphics and the art of the graphic novel
Álvaro Enrigue: Sudden Death
Rachel Cusk: Transit
Steve Erickson: Shadowbahn
Michael Tolkin: NK3
Ron Padgett: Collected Poems
Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (Part II)
Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (Part I)
Lynne Tillman: The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories
Don DeLillo: Zero K
Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls
Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History
Mitch Sisskind: Do Not Be a Gentleman When You say Goodnight
Peter Orner: Am I Alone Here?
Kate Tempest: The Bricks that Built the Houses
TC Boyle: The Terranauts
Tessa Hadley: The Past
Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am
Nicholson Baker: Substitute
Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn
Marisa Silver: Little Nothing
Affinity Konar: Mischling
Adam Fitzgerald: George Washington
Krys Lee: How I Became a North Korean
Joe McGinniss Jr: Carousel Court
Tom McCarthy: Satin Island
Tom Lutz: Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World
Michelle Latiolais: She
Constantine Phipps: What You Want
Vivian Gornick: The Odd Woman and the City
Geoff Dyer: White Sands
Louise Erdrich: LaRose, Part II
Louise Erdrich: LaRose, Part I
Joyce Carol Oates: The Man Without a Shadow
A. Scott Berg: Max Perkins
John Keene: Counternarratives
John D'Agata: The Making of the American Essay
Valeria Luiselli: The Story of My Teeth
Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
David Means: Hystopia
Helen Macdonald: H Is for Hawk
Christopher Sorrentino: The Fugitives
Greg Jackson: Prodigals
Brian Blanchfield: Proxies
Dana Spiotta: Innocents and Others
David Remnick and Deborah Treisman on fiction in the New Yorker
Joshua Cohen: Book of Numbers
Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen
Mark de Silva: Square Wave
Darryl Pinckney: Black Deutschland
Ryan Gattis: All Involved
Larissa MacFarquhar: Strangers Drowning
Edmund de Waal: The White Road
Bruce Bauman: Broken Sleep
Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners
Rick Moody: Hotels of North America
Salman Rushdie: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Paul Murray: The Mark and the Void
Eileen Myles: I Must Be Living Twice
Isabel Allende: The Japanese Lover
Sandra Cisneros: A House of My Own
Jonathan Franzen: Purity
Gary Indiana: I Can Give You Anything but Love
Mary Karr: The Art of Memoir
Joy Williams: The Visiting Privilege
Patrick deWitt: Undermajordomo Minor
Bill Clegg: Did You Ever Have a Family
Ann Beattie: The State We're In
Bonnie Nadzam and Dale Jamieson: Love in the Anthropocene
Dodie Bellamy: When the Sick Rule the World
William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II
William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I
Allison Green: The Ghosts Who Travel with Me
Louisa Hall: Speak
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets
E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley
Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman
Linda Rosenkrantz: Talk
Christian Kracht: Imperium
Amy Gerstler: Scattered at Sea
Vendela Vida: The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Aleksandar Hemon: The Making of Zombie Wars
Alan Cheuse: Prayers for the Living
Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts
Atticus Lish: Preparation for the Next Life
Valeria Luiselli: Faces in the Crowd
Per Petterson, Ethan Nosowsky and Geir Berdahl on Publishing
Thomas McGuane: Crow Fair
Per Petterson: I Refuse
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
Luis Alberto Urrea: Tijuana Book of the Dead, and The Water Museum
David Vann: Aquarium
Charles Baxter and the 'Hidden Bookshelf'
Charles Baxter: There's Something I Want You to Do
Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K
Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary
Claudia Rankine: Citizen, An American Lyric
Joyce Carol Oates: The Sacrifice
Peter Cole: The Invention of Influence
Chang-rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea
David Shields and Caleb Powell: I Think You're Totally Wrong
Alain Mabanckou: Letter to Jimmy
Richard Ford: Let Me Be Frank with You
Lydia Millet: Mermaids in Paradise
Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster
Todd Colby: Splash State
Goli Taraghi: The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons
Marilynne Robinson: Lila
Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest
Robert Duncan and Jess
Françoise Mouly, Ian Falconer, and Neil Gaiman: Kid’s Books
Ben Lerner: 10:04
Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
John Darnielle: Wolf In White Van
Jonathan Coe: Expo 58: A Novel
David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks
Charles Burns: Sugar Skull
Dylan Landis: Rainey Royal
Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Joyce Carol Oates: Prison Noir
Donald Antrim: The Emerald Light in the Air
Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part II)
Kevin Birmingham: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (Part I)
William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part II)
William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part I)
Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
Edward St. Aubyn: Lost For Words
Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
Alice Notley: Negativity's Kiss
Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part II)
Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part I)
Michael Carroll: Little Reef, and Edmund White: Inside a Pearl
László Krasznahorkai: Seiobo There Below
Lydia Davis: Can't and Won't
Sjon: The Whispering Muse
Mona Simpson: Casebook
Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
Jeff Jackson: Mira Corpora
Emma Donoghue: Frog Music
Lorrie Moore: Bark
Dustin Long: Bad Teeth
Michelle Huneven: Off Course
John Banville (Benjamin Black): Black-Eyed Blonde
Robert Bly and Marion Woodman
John Irving: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
John Robert Hoffman
Jay Parini
Yiyun Li: Kinder than Solitude
T.C. Boyle: Stories II
Warren Lehrer: A Life in Books
Valerie Martin: The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
Hilton Als: White Girls
Richard Powers: Orfeo
Jaime Hernandez and Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
Jonathan Blum: Last Word
Gary Shteyngart: Little Failure
Alfred Starr Hamilton: A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
Denis Scheck, German literary critic and host of 'Druckfrisch'
James McCourt: Lasting City
Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her
Joe Sacco: The Great War: July 1, 1916
Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
Will Self: Umbrella
Joan Didion on 'Blue Nights'
James Franco: Actors Anonymous
Allan Gurganus: Local Souls
Alice McDermott: Someone
Andre Dubus, III: Dirty Love
Nicholson Baker: Traveling Sprinkler
Jonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens
Alexander Maksik: A Marker to Measure Drift
Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby
Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled
Russ Kick: The Graphic Canon, Volume 3
Mark Slouka: Brewster
Margaret Atwood: Maddaddam
Cathleen Schine: Fin and Lady
Peter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge
Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Linda Spalding: The Purchase
Tao Lin: Taipei
James Kelman: Mo Said She Was Quirky
Anne Carson: Red Doc>
Tom Drury: Pacific
Isabel Allende: Maya's Notebook
David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah
Marisa Silver: Mary Coin
Alice Fulton: Cascade Experiment
Rae Armantrout: Just Saying
Pura Lopez-Colome and Forrest Gander: Watchword
Aleksandar Hemon: The Book of My Lives
Margaret Atwood on Innovation
Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers
David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life
Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Sam Lipsyte:The Fun Parts
Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed
Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table
Jess Walter: We Live in Water
Eloise Klein Healy: A Wild Surmise
Luis Alberto Urrea, Part Two
Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part Two
Nick Flynn: The Reenactments
Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then
George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part One
Ange Mlinko: Shoulder Season; Marvelous Things Overheard
Lydia Millet: Magnificence
Amy Wilentz: Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Antoine Wilson: Panorama City
Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
Charles Burns: The Hive
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
Christine Schutt: Prosperous Friends
Scott Shepherd and John Collins: Gatz
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate
Chris Ware: Building Stories
Craig Nova: The Constant Heart
Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
Lawrence Norfolk: John Saturnall's Feast
Robert Hass: What Light Can Do
Michael Chabon: Telegraph Avenue
Joshua Cohen: Four New Messages
Neal Stephenson: Some Remarks
Mary Ruefle: Madness, Rack, and Honey
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Time of Useful Consciousness
John Irving: In One Person
Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be?
Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins
Laszlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango
Jim Krusoe: Parsifal
Victoria Nelson: Gothicka
Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King
Richard Ford: Canada, Part 2
Richard Ford: Canada, Part 1
Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Cees Nooteboom: Self-Portrait of an Other
Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin-The Life and the Legend
Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men
Adam Levin: Hot Pink
Etgar Keret: Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
Peter Behrens: The O'Briens
Heidi Julavits: The Vanishers
William H. Gass: Life Sentences
Krys Lee: Drifting House
Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part II
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part I
Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet
Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend
Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish
Wayne Koestenbaum: Humiliation
Steve Erickson: These Dreams of You
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
Ismet Prcic: Shards
Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm
Jonathan Lethem: The Ecstasy of Influence
Peter Gizzi: Threshold Songs
Paul La Farge: Luminous Airplanes
Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
W.S. Merwin: The Shadow of Sirius
Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon
Tony D'Souza: Mule
Lawrence Weschler: Uncanny Valley
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock
Justin Torres: We the Animals
Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang
Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries
Maggie Nelson: The Art of Cruelty-A Reckoning
Simon Reynolds: Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew
Jon-Jon Goulian: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
Art Spiegelman: MetaMaus
Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 2
Sapphire: The Kid, Part 1
UpClose: Sapphire
Dora Malech: Say So
Chris Adrian: The Great Night
John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun
Geoff Dyer: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
Louis B. Jones: Radiance
John Steppling on theater, 'Fever Dreams'
Ann Patchett: State of Wonder
Francine Prose: My New American Life
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question
Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story
Eileen Myles: Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
Diane Ackerman: One Hundred Names for Love
Marjorie Garber: The Use and Abuse of Literature
Manuel Munoz: What You See in the Dark
David Lipsky and Rick Moody: David Foster Wallace's 'The Pale King'
Michelle Latiolais: Widow
Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories
Carlos Fuentes: Destiny and Desire, Part II
Carlos Fuentes: Destiny and Desire, Part I
Ralph Sassone: The Intimates
T.C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done
Mark Richard: House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home
Tatjana Soli: The Lotus Eaters
Joseph McElroy: Night Soul and Other Stories
Isabel Allende: Paula
T.C. Boyle on the environment
David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary
David Vann: Caribou Island
Salman Rushdie: Luka and the Fire of Life
Mary Ruefle: Selected Poems
Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
Nicole Krauss: Great House
Leslie Marmon Silko: The Turquoise Ledge
Breyten Breytenbach on His Literature, Anti-Apartheid Activism
Lan Samantha Chang: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room
Mona Simpson: My Hollywood
Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth
Tom McCarthy: C
Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
Howard Norman: What Is Left the Daughter
Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story
Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Vendela Vida: The Lovers
Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks
Craig Nova: The Informer
Martha McPhee: Dear Money
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
D.A. Powell and Linda Gregerson: Chronic
Jane Smiley: Private Life
Peter Carey
Aimee Bender
Favorite Books: John Waters and Elif Batuman
Isabel Allende: Island Beneath the Sea
Zachary Mason
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Yann Martel
David Shields and Ander Monson on the New Prose
Ian McEwan
Anne Carson
Sam Lipsyte: The Ask
Chang-rae Lee: The Surrendered
John D'Agata: About a Mountain
Elif Batuman: The Possessed
John Ashbery
Adam Haslett
Joshua Ferris
Barbara Epler
John McPhee
Patti Smith, Part II
Patti Smith, Part I
Javier Marias, Part II
Javier Marias, Part I
Rita Dove
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Jonathan Lethem
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part II
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Part I
Barbara Kingsolver
Wallace Shawn: Essays & Grasses of a Thousand Colors
Orhan Pamuk, Part II
Orhan Pamuk, Part I
A.S. Byatt
Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel
Brenda Hillman
Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood
James Galvin
Nicholson Baker
Nick Laird
Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dennis Cooper
Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
Clancy Martin
Colum McCann
Reif Larsen
Glen David Gold
Eduardo Galeano: Mirrors
Jim Krusoe
Anne Waldman
John Wray
Wells Tower
Matthea Harvey
Brad Gooch: Flannery
Matthew Dickman
Geoff Dyer: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Mary Gaitskill
An Oulipo Mini-Anthology
Jacques Roubaud
Gary Indiana: The Shanghai Gesture
Elizabeth Alexander
Yusef Komunyakaa
Joanna Scott
Abdellah Taia
T.C. Boyle
A Whitman Tribute
Robin Romm
Frank Bidart, Part II
Frank Bidart, Part I
John Haskell
Rae Armantrout
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Sparks: The Art of the Popular Song
Azar Nafisi
Toni Morrison, Part II
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Amitav Ghosh
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
Jonathan Carroll
David Foster Wallace
Sarah Vowell
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
Diane Johnson
Francine Prose: Goldengrove
James Wood
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part III
Art Spiegelman
Horacio Castellanos Moya
David Markson
Annie Proulx
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II
An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
A Celebration of the Work of Swiss Writer Robert Walser
Francoise Mouly
Donald Ray Pollock (national)
Art Spiegelman (local)
Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage
Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Tobias Wolff
Coral Bracho and translator Forrest Gander
Brian Hall
Keith Gessen
Zachary Lazar
Richard Price
Isabel Allende: The Sum of Our Days
Clayton Eshleman
Bruce Weigl and Brian Turner
David Shields: The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
Ariana Reines
Colm Tóibín: Mothers and Sons
Anne Enright
Arnon Grunberg
William T. Vollmann
David Rieff
Geraldine Brooks
Lewis Hyde
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson
Robert Hass
Cees Nooteboom
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
Russell Banks
Edmund White: Hotel de Dream
James McCourt: Now Voyagers
David Plante
Ann Patchett: Run
George Saunders: The Braindead Megaphone
Carol Muske-Dukes
Steve Erickson: Zeroville
Mario Vargas Llosa
Millard Kaufman
Ron Padgett: Joe
Robert Alter
Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Veronica Gonzalez
Rupert Thomson
Alice Sebold
Ana Castillo
William Gibson
Viken Berberian
Marianne Wiggins
Miranda July
Nathan Englander
Naeem Murr
Michael Ondaatje: Divisadero
Helena Maria Viramontes
Alice Sebold
Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Flanagan
Jim Crace
Jonathan Lethem
Kiran Desai
Mark Slouka: The Visible World
John Ashbery and Ron Padgett on the works of Pierre Reverdy
Lydia Davis
Joanna Scott
Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
Christine Schutt
John Banville (as Benjamin Black): Christine Falls
John Ashbery
Brian Selznick
Howard Norman
C.K. Williams
Vikram Chandra
Norman Mailer, Part II
Norman Mailer, Part I
Robert Stone
Martin Amis: House of Meetings
Vendela Vida
Gore Vidal
Isabel Allende: Ines of My Soul
Alice McDermott: After This
Brian Evenson
Dave Eggers
Mary Gordon
Richard Ford
Anne Carson
Philip Levine
Greil Marcus
Jennifer Egan: The Keep
Chris Adrian: The Children's Hospital
Edward P. Jones
Geoff Dyer: The Ongoing Moment
Clifford Chase
Zadie Smith
Michael Tolkin
Marisha Pessl
Andrew Holleran
Chris Kraus: Torpor
Mark Z. Danielewski
Wole Soyinka
John Updike, Part 2
John Updike, Part 1
Stacey Levine
W. S. Merwin
Uzodinma Iweala
Carlos Fuentes
Joyce Carol Oates: High Lonesome
T.C. Boyle
David Mitchell
Irving Feldman
Alice Quinn
John Yau
Leonard Cohen
Yannick Murphy
David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Crawford
Robert Coover, Part 2 of 2
Robert Coover, Part 1 of 2
Peter Maresca and Art Spiegelman
Mary Caponegro
Richard Howard
Salman Rushdie: Shalimar the Clown
Jane Smiley
Campbell McGrath
Christopher Sorrentino
Joyce Carol Oates: Missing Mom
George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Colm Tóibín: The Master
Francine du Plessix Gray
Louise Erdrich: The Painted Drum
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Michel Houellebecq
Umberto Eco
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
Bret Easton Ellis
Bookworm Series Finale (Part 10 of 10)
Beyond Identity--A Dark Vision (Part 9 of 10)
Hispanic Identity in Writing (Part 8 of 10)
Asian Identity in Writing (Part 7 of 10)
Sexuality and Literary Theory (Part 6 of 10)
Jewish Identity in Writing (Part 5 of 10)
African Americans and Identity in Writing (Part 4 of 10)
Place and Identity (Part 3 of 10)
The Creation of Identity (Part 2 of 10)
Escaping the Cage: Identity, Multiculturalism and Writing
Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Williams
Ian McEwan
Roberto Calasso
Gilbert Sorrentino
Steve Erickson: Our Ecstatic Days
Martha Kinney, Derek McCormack and Dennis Cooper
Camille Paglia
Marilynne Robinson, Part II
Marilynne Robinson, Part I
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World
Cynthia Ozick
Mark Helprin
Joy Williams: Honored Guest
Susan Sontag
August Kleinzahler
Alan Hollinghurst
Russell Banks
Orhan Pamuk
Courtney Angela Brkic
Louis de Bernières
Kem Nunn
Don Lee: Country of Origin
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
William H. Gass: Reading Rilke
William T. Vollmann
Dan Chaon
Steve Almond
Marianne Wiggins
A Tribute to Czeslaw Milosz
Angus Fletcher
Alex Garland
Craig Nova
Karen Joy Fowler
David Bezmozgis
John Banville: Shroud
Seamus Heaney
Art Spiegelman
Walter Abish
Jim Shepard
E. L. Doctorow: Sweet Land Stories
Rebecca Solnit
Martin Amis: Yellow Dog
Suzan-Lori Parks
Guy Maddin
Harold Bloom: The Best Poems of the English Language
Alice Walker
Lucie Brock-Broido
Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Melissa Pritchard
Edwidge Danticat
Chris Abani
David St. John
Octavia Butler
Benjamin Weissman, with editor Dennis Cooper
Doris Lessing: The Grandmothers
Rita Dove
Clayton Eshleman
James McCourt: Queer Street
Maxine Hong Kingston
Stuart Dybek
Tobias Wolff
Toni Morrison
Elmore Leonard: Mr. Paradise
Susan Choi
Jhumpa Lahiri
Edmund White: Fanny
DBC Pierre
Remembering George Plimpton
Remembering Edward Said
Pete Dexter
Edward P. Jones
Jonathan Lethem
Joan Didion
Vendela Vida and Julie Orringer
Chuck Palahniuk: Diary
Kevin Young
Rikki Ducornet
John Kaye
Janette Turner Hospital
Heidi Julavits: The Effect of Living Backwards
Ahdaf Soueif
Barbara Gowdy
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Joseph McElroy (Part 2 of 2)
Joseph McElroy (Part 1 of 2)
Carol Muske Dukes
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Siri Hustvedt
Alice McDermott: Child of My Heart
Monique Truong
Robert Stone
Jane Smiley
Don DeLillo: The Body Artist
Don DeLillo: Cosmopolis
John Murray
Kate Moses
ZZ Packer
Jessica Shattuck
John D'Agata: The Next American Essay
William Gibson
Norman Mailer
Louise Erdrich: The Master Butchers Singing Club
Brian Hall
A. S. Byatt (Part II)
A. S. Byatt (Part I)
Geoff Dyer: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Colum McCann
Hubert Selby, Jr (Part II)
Hubert Selby, Jr. (Part 1)
Ron Padgett: You Never Know
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Kim Deitch