Sep 14th, 2008 · Hanif Kureishi is one of England's best-known novelists and screenwriters. Race and sex and cultural divides in London have always been Kureishi's territory, and they still are. In his latest novel, Something To Tell You, the characters are older, their sexual foibles darker — and the narrator is a psychologist named Jamal Khan — a man who has a lot of guilt.
Sep 13th, 2008 · The novelist has turned The Bonesetter's Daughter into an opera, which has its premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Saturday. Transforming the book into a libretto wasn't easy for Tan, nor was resurfacing the painful stories of her family's past.
Sep 10th, 2008 · Man In The Dark is novelist Paul Auster's latest book. The Brooklyn fiction writer, essayist and screenwriter has published more than a dozen novels. His latest adds to his highly praised body of work.
Sep 10th, 2008 · Jonathan Lethem and Walter Salas-Humara sat down to write an album in 48 hours. Rock critic Ken Tucker has some thoughts about the result.
Aug 30th, 2008 · Jacqueline Care talks about her new novel, It's a Crime. The novelist found inspiration in affluent New Jersey suburbs, just outside of Manhattan, and in the white-collar crimes of corporate CEOs.
Aug 17th, 2008 · Host Andrea Seabrook shares parting words from novelist Saul Bellow: "Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
Aug 14th, 2008 · For historian-turned-mystery-writer Jason Goodwin, the bustling Istanbul bazaar is a perfect setting for murder, and the evening call to prayer is "a good time to kick a man to death in the street."
Aug 4th, 2008 · As a journalist, John Darnton spent 40 years at The New York Times. As a novelist, he writes colorful mysteries. His newest murder yarn, set in a big-city newsroom that seems awfully familiar: Black and White and Dead All Over.