Bookworm

John Sayles: Los Gusanos 25.06.1991 29:43 ↓

Writer-director John Sayles discusses the creative process and the politics shaping his novel about the Cubano exile in Florida.

Lynn Tillman 18.06.1991 29:48 ↓

Motion Sickness The brilliant combination of the post-modern and the mundane animates the tone of this theoretical New Narrative.

Georgia Savage 11.06.1991 28:31 ↓

The House Tibet This book about runaways, romance and incest is the first American publication of a breakthrough Australian novelist

Allan Gurganus: White People and Oldest Living Confederate Widow... 04.06.1991 29:29 ↓

Alan Gurganus talks about his friendship with John Cheever and the use of autobiography in fiction--and life.

William Joyce 21.05.1991 29:57 ↓

Dinosaur Bob; A Day With Wilbur Robinson William Joyce's picture books combine art nouveau and dinosaurs, 30's jazz and Dashiell Hammett.

Jonathan Carroll 14.05.1991 29:51 ↓

Bones of the Moon; Sleeping in Flame Carroll blends post-modernism, children's literature and science fiction to create wholly-original novels.

Joyce Carol Oates: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 07.05.1991 27:45 ↓

Dark, passionate realist Oates' new novel explores inter-racial obsession.

Susan Compo and Susan Straight 30.04.1991 30:01 ↓

Authors Susan Compo and Susan Straight discuss their novels: Life after Death and Aquaboogie . A special show contrasting two California writers Compo details Melrose punk; Straight describes the multi-racial Riverside community in which she lives.

Jane DeLynn 23.04.1991 29:21 ↓

Don Juan In The Village International philosophical and sexual escapades of a fiction- writing lesbian.

Tim Cahill 16.04.1991 30:26 ↓

Road Fever Mad-dog adventurer travels from the tip of South America to the Arctic, breaking the Guinness World Record

Ted Mooney 09.04.1991 29:48 ↓

Traffic and Laughter; Easy Travel To Other Planets A novelist of futuristic dislocations.

Barry Lopez 02.04.1991 29:36 ↓

Crow And Weasel The naturalist has written a children's book based on American Indian and ecological themes.

Diane Wood Middlebrook and Ann Lauterbach 23.03.1991 30:21 ↓

Ann Sexton; Clamor   Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses Ann Sexton's life as revealed in her biography. Ann Lauterbach answers the Bookworm's questions about how to understand her poetry.

William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown 19.03.1991 30:24 ↓

The Ice Shirt and Big Bad Love   William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown discuss their novels: Vollmann's The Ice Shirt is a vast historical fantasy inspired by Icelandic sagas. Widely admired Southern short-story writer Brown is the author of Big Bad Love .

Michael Cunningham 12.03.1991 30:47 ↓

A Home At The End Of The World

Isabel Allende: The Stories of Eva Luna 05.03.1991 29:07 ↓

The Stories of Eva Luna (Scribner)  

Anne Rice 08.01.1991 30:16 ↓

The Witching Hour; Interview With A Vampire The queen of the supernaturals.

Allan Gurganus and Susan Chehak 11.12.1990 30:58 ↓

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All; Harmony First a conversation with Alan Gurganus , then with novelist Susan Chehak .

Edna O'Brien 04.12.1990 31:02 ↓

Lantern Slides

Stephen Pett and Geoffrey Wolfe 27.11.1990 29:21 ↓

Sirens;The Final Club

Mario Vargas Llosa 20.11.1990 29:43 ↓

Mario Vargas Llosa discusses In Praise of the Stepmother; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The War at End the of World.

Michelle Latiolais 13.11.1990 29:16 ↓

Even Now

Kazou Ishiguro: three novels 06.11.1990 29:26 ↓

Kazuo Ishiguro discusses three of his novels: The Remains of the Day, A Pale View of the Hills and An Artist of the Floating World.

David Leavitt; Alan Barnett 30.10.1990 30:11 ↓

A Place I've Never Been;The Body and Its Dangers