From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions. Edgar Allan Poe & the ... Read More

Two of eight episodes are already available. Dean talks about editors, where he gets his ideas from, and of course his latest novel, The Husband. Check in every ... Read More

In 1986, Marjorie Williams became an editor at the Washington Post, where she made a name for herself via her sharp political writing. The political profiles she wrote for ... Read More

Yannick Murphy's Here They Come (Mcsweeney's, March 2006) is narrated by a 13-year-old girl growing up in a chaotic family in a ramshackle apartment in 1970's New York. The ... Read More

John Updike's twenty-second novel tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, and his devotion to ... Read More

Adverbs is a novel about love - a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love ... Read More

Come Back is a mother and daughter's memoir of the most trying of times for a parent. At 15 years of age, Mia, the daughter, fled home into a ... Read More

(Because you want to get him a bass boat, but you don't have the clams)

Zadie Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, for her novel, On Beauty. She was shortlisted for the award twice before for White Teeth and The Autograph Man. The Orange ... Read More

Mitch, an ordinary guy - a landscaper, is gardening when he receives the call of his worst nightmares. The callers have kidnapped Holly, Mitch's wife, and threaten to kill ... Read More

Already featured in Zoetrope and L.A. Weekly and on the This American Life radio program, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and ... Read More

On www.whatshouldireadnext.com a user can type in the title of a book and its author, and the site returns a list of reading recommendations based upon how that books is ... Read More