Sep 16th, 2004 · Spiegelman won a Pulitzer prize for his two-part graphic novels about his father in Nazi Germany and the holocaust Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds and Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Here My Troubles Began. His new graphic nonfiction novel is about his family's experience on Sept. 11, In the Shadow of No Towers.
Sep 16th, 2004 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Love Wife by Gish Jen. The novel tells the story of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American and his complicated family life.
Sep 13th, 2004 · The daughter of former presidential candidate, Vice President Al Gore, Kristin Gore has just written her first novel, Sammy's Hill. It's about a young health care analyst who is trying to balance her personal life with her work for a U.S. senator. Gore has been a TV writer since she graduated from Harvard, where she wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. She has written for Saturday Night Live and Futurama
Sep 7th, 2004 · Alan Cheuse reviews Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres. Cheuse says it's a story with numerous richly portrayed characters living in an Anatolian coastal village in the early 1900s.
Sep 4th, 2004 · When visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris started quizzing museum guards about Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, art historian Ellen McBreen began a "Cracking The Da Vinci Code at the Louvre" tour. Hear McBreen and NPR's Scott Simon.
Sep 3rd, 2004 · Vanity Fair, based on the comic 19th century novel by William Thackeray, stars Reese Witherspoon and Gabriel Byrne. Critic David Edelstein says the supporting cast is superb, but the tone of the film is directly opposite that of the novel.
Aug 30th, 2004 · Alan Cheuse reviews A Seahorse Year, by Stacey D'Erasmo, an out-of-the-ordinary family story that takes place in San Francisco immediately after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
Aug 30th, 2004 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Wasp Eater, the first novel by William Lychack. Corrigan says the book, about a dysfunctional family splitting up in late '70s Connecticut, succeeds at a small goal: conveying the ordinary sadness of connecting with other human beings.