Bookworm

The Conquest Of Paradise:(Director of Lapis Press)Sale, the radical, historian and ecologist, examines the myths of Christopher Columbus and the New World. Robert Shapazian talks about creating books as art objects.

The Sun Maiden:Out of Time Two talented young novelists discuss their first novels. The Sun Maiden is a futuristic novel about Los Angeles; Out Of Time, a moving, psychological story, is about the death of a young man.

MatingThe winner of the 1991 National Book Award discusses his zany novel about feminism, Africa and anthropology.

Pizza Face:Force Majeure Ken Siman writes about the trauma of being adolescent, gay and acneed. Bruce Wagner experiences the dementia of the half-life of the Hollywood screenwriter.

The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.

Set For LifeThe writer discusses her novel about passion and American right-wing conspiracies.

Harlot's Ghost Norman Mailer in the second of a two-part interview on Harlot's Ghost and other matters.

Harlot's Ghost Norman Mailer in a two-part interview on Harlot's Ghost and other matters.

The author talks about grief in the art of fiction...

Skating In The Dark A moving novel, in stories, about a man learning to handle his fears--of relationships, of intimacy and of experience.

Michael Silverblatt and a young Los Angeles writer, Chuck Wilson, talk with Pauline Kael about her book, Movie Love .

The Revolution of Little GirlsNovelist and lesbian Blanche Boyd discusses childhood and writing.

The Almanac Branch The editor of Conjunctions, the post-modern literary magazine, discusses the techniques and strategies of his recent novel.

Cures The historian's autobiography deals with homosexuality and psychoanalysis in the America of the 1950's and 60's.

A Soldier of the Great War   Mark Helprin writes about aesthetics, war and love in his new novel set in Italy during World War I.

The Kitchen God's Wife ; The Joy Luck Club As author Amy Tan examines the image of the passive, compliant, Asian-American woman, she reveals some personal secrets.

Wall To WallThe author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.

Wall To Wall The author makes an emotional and political journey from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall on the Trans-Siberian Express.

U and I Nicholson Baker , the American chronicler of berserk technology talks about his imaginary friendship with John Updike.

Pledge of Allegiance; Like ChinaTwo first novelists, currently living in California, discuss their books: Lapin's, about the McCarthy era and O'Connor's, about domestic violence.

When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone The poet discusses the solitude necessary for poetry and the ways in which the imagination keeps us from suicide.

The Book of Embraces The South American surrealist turns from the terror of American history to dreams and visionary prose.

One of the great writers of contemporary short stories in the Flannery O'Connor tradition, Joy Williams writes about salvation, damnation and the rot of modern culture

Quincunx; The Sensationist The author of an enormous modern Victorian novel (Quincunx) speaks about his new work, The Sensationist, a brief, mysterious book about lust and disappearance