Anchee Min
She did not know she was ruining China.
Among the first generation born and raised in Mao's China, Anchee Min began her life a staunch party supporter. She recounts her early life weiter...
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Peter Carey
Australia’s most celebrated living writer
More than any other Australian writer, Carey is interested in creating viable Australian origin myths. His most famous novel, Oscar and weiter...
Stephen Jay Gould
From Brachiopods to Baseball
It's hard to have a discussion of popular natural history and evolution literature without mentioning Stephen Jay Gould. The Alexander weiter...
Michael Connelly
Shades of Black
Michael Connelly graduated from the University of Florida with a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing and went on to work weiter...
Bharati Mukherjee
I’m playing with author-protagonist relationships in ways that I haven’t before.
In Desirable Daughters, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee (The Middleman and Other Stories, 1988) introduces weiter...
Judy Blunt
Judy Blunt in the City of Books.
Raised on a Montana ranch four hours from the nearest cities of any size (Great Falls and Billings), offered in marriage at age eighteen by weiter...
Richard Ford
One on One with Richard Ford.
Before Richard Ford published Independence Day, the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he weiter...
Susan Minot
Back in Bed with Susan Minot.
"Sex and the single girl have seldom been absent from Susan Minot's fiction," James Marcus reminded readers of The Atlantic Monthly. weiter...
Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser Knows What You’re Eating
"What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Eric Schlosser writes in Fast Food Nation, yet weiter...
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain Eats Out
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo," Anthony Bourdain explains, "though I do my best not to, I really weiter...
Regan Daley
Regan Daley: Writer, Glorified Home Baker
Perhaps the judges were impressed with the chapter, nearly three hundred pages in length, dedicated to demystifying every aspect of 700 weiter...
Jill Ker Conway
I’d try to write a lively picture of the way a woman’s mind developed and how her intellectual vocation is formed.
Readers first caught a glimpse of that lively picture in The Road from Coorain, the story of a bright, strong girl's childhood on a remote weiter...
Gretel Ehrlich
You would never do it if you realized how much work it was going to be.
"I first traveled to Greenland in the late summer of 1993," This Cold Heaven begins, "not to write a book but to get above treeline." Still weiter...
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester Unearths Another Scholar
Upon earning a degree in geology at Oxford, Simon Winchester, twenty-one years old, set off for Uganda to prospect for copper. weiter...
Jim Crace
Jim Crace Peels Off the Labels
Quarantine, Jim Crace's 1997 novel, earned the author his second Whitbread Award. Being Dead, his follow-up, won the 2000 National Book weiter...
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen Uncorrected
You will read The Corrections eventually. Perhaps soon and by your own volition, perhaps only after you tire of friends talking endlessly weiter...
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares Embarks Into Fiction
The day before splitting up for their first summer apart, four best friends discover a pair of pants that just might be magical ¿ how else weiter...
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman Reaches the Garden
I read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy back-to-back-to-back in the weeks preceding this conversation. By the time I'd reached the weiter...
Jeff Shaara
Jeff Shaara’s Independence
The son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jeff Shaara inherited a Civil War trilogy in-the-making from his father. With Gods and Generals weiter...
Colson Whitehead
Post Office To Unveil Colson Whitehead Stamp
Talcott, West Virginia, is the site of the first annual John Henry Days festival, celebrating the U. S. Postal Service's new Folk Heroes weiter...
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk on Oprah’s diaphragm
Chuck Palahniuk's immoderate satires elicit much the same reaction as a Dead Baby joke: readers aren't quite sure if it's okay to laugh. weiter...
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes
The government of a small South American country holds a birthday party for the head of Japan's leading electronics manufacturer, hoping to weiter...
Irvine Welsh
Sometimes you don’t see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
"Who says punks can't age gracefully?" Gerry Donaghy wrote upon the publication of Glue, Irvine Welsh's sixth book. "A tale of four friends weiter...
Richard Russo
Richard Russo’s Working Arrangements
Careful: Laboratory tests confirm that Richard Russo's prose promotes addictive behavior among committed readers of fiction. His fifth weiter...
Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner and Her Little Mind, Looking Around
"I always thought I'd go to the Oscars," Rita Rudner explained, "but only as a stalker." In fact, having worked with Steve Martin to weiter...