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Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring. Alan Cheuse offers a review.Web Extra:Read Excerpts
May 16, 2008 · Book reviewer Alan Cheuse examines The Conversion, the eighth novel by Joseph Olshan. Set in present-day Italy, Olshan bring us the story of a young expatriate writer in France and Italy and his apprenticeship in art and life.
May 9, 2008 · Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling young adult series Twilight, has written her first adult book. The Host is a science fiction romance about two woman — one an alien from outer space — who inhabit the same body and are in love with the same man.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
May 2, 2008 · Joanne Harris' new novel, The Girl with No Shadow, revisits the supernaturally sensuous world of Chocolat. But where the first book was about what makes people happy, Harris calls her latest a dark, urban fairy tale.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
May 5, 2008 · Author Marisa de los Santos recalls the worries of her childhood, and the escape she found in The Four-Story Mistake, Elizabeth Enright's tale of four siblings living with their father and a housekeeper in a big, rambling house in the country.
May 4, 2008 · Louise Erdrich, who has written 12 novels and volumes of poetry, is known for her masterful storytelling. The author talks about her new book, The Plague of Doves, which focuses on a senseless, horrific crime and a Native American reservation in North Dakota.
April 30, 2008 · Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov was racing to finish his last novel Laura before he died. When it became clear he wouldn't finish in time, he instructed his heirs to burn the manuscript. Thirty years later, Nabokov's son Dmitri explains why he has decided to publish the unfinished work.
April 10, 2008 · Lois Lowry was 8 years old when she first encountered the loneliness and desperate poverty of the Baxter family in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' book, The Yearling.
April 7, 2008 · Nearly 40 years ago, funny, smart, neurotic Alexander Portnoy burst onto the public stage. Philip Roth's fictional hero was racked by guilt — promoted by an over-protective, self-sacrificing mother and by an obsession with, er, loving himself too much.
April 22, 2008 · Tobias Wolff's new collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, centers on moments of quiet epiphany. "If you change the direction of your life by a little degree, years later you're going to end up in a very different direction than if you hadn't," Wolff says.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
April 12, 2008 · In Donald Ray Pollock's first book — named after a real town in southern Ohio — characters are unloveable and raunchy — but compelling. Pollack's novel comes after a long career as a factory worker, where he dreamed of being a writer.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
April 8, 2008 · Two new novels feature highly educated main characters who discover that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. Maureen Corrigan reviews The Philosopher's Apprentice, by James Morrow, and The Soul Thief, by Charles Baxter.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
April 7, 2008 · Alan Cheuse reviews Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel The Story of Forgetting, which intertwines three narratives — of memory, loss and fantasy — in a family coping with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
March 30, 2008 · Scott Sigler is breaking new literary ground. He's the author of some of the first podcast novels — books delivered first by audio, in serial form. Will this new form of "book publishing" become a successful trend? Sigler offers his insights.
"The Road by Cormac McCarthy moved me deeply. Could be his best book."
From Jorey, who listens to KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
As National Poetry Month draws to a close, we recognize five new volumes that celebrate the form.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Relentless Pursuit by Donna Foote.
