Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl’s Home Cooked Comforts
In 1978, when Comfort Me with Apples opens, the young woman we met in Tender at the Bone is living in a Berkeley commune with her husband, weiter...
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Sarah Susanka
Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big Houses
Think about it: Why do Americans entrust the most expensive purchase of their lives to strangers with virtually no sense of their weiter...
Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean Returns with Stories from the Road
Whether writing about an African king who drives a cab in New York City (her first feature for The New Yorker), a long-forgotten girl group weiter...
Greil Marcus
All These Inches Away From Where Greil Marcus Began
Wondering how Bob Dylan resurrected his career in the nineties or what Elvis Presley and Bill Clinton have in common? Curious which novel's weiter...
Allegra Goodman
You’ve got to pity the poor soul who gets stuck sitting next to her on the bus…
In 1996, Goodman's "story cycle," The Family Markowitz, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Two years later, her first novel, weiter...
Deepak Chopra
Christ wasn’t a Christian and Mohammed wasn’t a Mohammedan.
Deepak, elbows on the conference table, hunched over a microphone, talking about God. "Christ wasn't a Christian and Mohammed wasn't a weiter...
Jane Smiley
Who’s Happiest in Horse Heaven, Jane Smiley or the Horses?
The answer depends entirely on which horse you're talking about. In Horse Heaven, we meet horses bound for glory and others who suffer an weiter...
Manil Suri
On the Cusp of Something Big with Manil Suri
You are a mathematician, a professor in Applied Sciences, who writes an average of one short story each year to share informally with weiter...
Tim Powers
Tim Powers Rewrites the Cold War
Winner of the World Fantasy Award (for Last Call) and a two-time recipient of the Philip K. Dick Award (The Anubis Gates and Dinner at weiter...
John Balzar
Nonfiction writers tend to mass around certain kinds of stories.
Between Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory and Fairbanks, Alaska, the course of the Yukon Quest International Dog Sled Race stretches 1,023 weiter...
James Gleick
James Gleick Catches Up With Time
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything opens at the Directorate of Time, a compound so oddly reminiscent of old science fiction weiter...
Jonathan Raban
I’m interested in the generic edge.
Where were you on Tuesday, November 7, 2000? Jonathan Raban was watching election returns late into the Seattle night. On Wednesday, he weiter...
Thomas Keller
To consider it merely a ‚cookbook‘ would be to trivialize its content and impact.
The French Laundry in Yountville, California has been named the number-one restaurant in America by Esquire, Zagat Survey, Gourmet, Bon weiter...
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures
Funny, captivating, smart, suspenseful, rich and colorful. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a big novel worthy of all those weiter...
Tucker Malarkey
Wow, the African thing’s been done.
Tucker Malarkey's debut novel, An Obvious Enchantment, defies easy classification. A "quest novel," distinguished author Margot Livesey weiter...
Bob Blumer
I think of these books really as guides to better living — not as cookbooks.“
At six-thirty or so, the toastermobile arrived, a classic Airstream trailer customized with an industrial kitchen and topped with two weiter...
James Lee Burke
The Faulkner of crime fiction.
One of only two authors to win two Edgar Awards, James Lee Burke has been called "the Faulkner of crime fiction." Now, many readers are weiter...
Molly Gloss
I write to please myself, for the most part…
Wild Life is the best novel I've read this year. Charlotte Bridger Drummond is my favorite narrator. Gloss deserves the early rave reviews weiter...
Bill Bryson
l Bryson Is More Popular Than The Beatles
erything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us ¿ three billion year old weiter...
Marty Asher
„…but books, they have all these pages, you can’t plug them in, they don’t have batteries.“
"So tiny a book," Kirkus Reviews wrote of Marty Asher's novel, The Boomer, "yet so devastatingly large in its subject, import, and effect." weiter...
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje¿s Cubist Civil War
Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje¿s first novel since The English Patient captured the 1992 Booker Prize, transports readers to Sri Lanka, dropping us weiter...
Christopher Paul Curtis
When I write them, I really don¿t think about writing to kids.
Just a few days before his visit to Powell¿s, Christopher Paul Curtis learned that his second book, Bud, Not Buddy, had been awarded both weiter...
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer¿s Mongrel Soul
"Suddenly, the flames were curling seventy feet above my living room," The Global Soul begins. The author¿s house burns down, and next weiter...
Paul Theroux
The World According to Paul Theroux
Of the fifty travel-related essays, articles, and book reviews in Fresh Air Fiend, all but one were written after the publication of weiter...
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler Plays with Voices
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler delivered first-hand tales from fifteen weiter...