Bookworm

Fiction writer Bonnie Nadzam and environmental philosopher, Dale Jamieson, worked together to write Love in the Anthropocene, a collection of five short stories that describe a very near future in which nature as we know it no longer exists.  

In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay form into poetry, personal memoire and literary analysis

The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War is the fifth book in Vollman's seven-book series about loss and transformation of the North American continent, this novel dramatizes a power grab disguised as a race war between Native Americans and settlers. 

The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce.  This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce. 

A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan Press.

Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test:  how do we know if what we are communicating with via machine is human?

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.

Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez  about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea to tape record her friends on the beach in East Hampton. The result was Talk, in which anything could become a subject for conversation – it was all discussed. 

Christian Kracht's Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas is a satirical parable that sees fanaticism as the root of German culture and imperialist culture in general. 

Amy Gerstler's new book of poems is an exploration of getting lost, the unknown, mortality and remembrance. 

Vendela Vida's new novel is a story of identity, a recurring mystery in her work. We get to the bottom of why identity is her obsession. 

This darkly nihilistic book masquerading as a comedy is as much a commentary on society as it is the story of a bad script-writer.

The "voice of NPR book reviews" takes a singular opportunity – the discussion of his own novel with KCRW's bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.

The Argonauts is a work of "auto-theory" in which theory is put to the test against life experience.

Atticus Lish's debut novel won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for First Fiction, demonstrating that he waited 40 years to become a natural.

Valeria Luiselli's first novel reminds us of what it's like to be young and in love with literature. 

We talk to author Per Petterson, editor Ethan Nosowsky, and publisher Geir Berdahl about the what it takes to bring a book to life and about the changing world of publishing. 

Thomas McGuane's new book of stories is a demonstration model of his verbal surprises and his deep insight into his characters.