Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 17, 2007.

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five collections of short stories, All Around Atlantis, The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, and the most recent, Twilight of the Super Heroes: Stories. Eisenberg is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2003, a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

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Length: 1:17:03; Size: 35.3 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 1st, 2006.

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England, and now lives in New York City. He is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels, as well as the editor of two anthologies. His latest novel, Dancing In The Dark, re-imagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship.

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Length: 1:08:26; Size: 31.4 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 11th, 2006.

Robert Coover has been described by The New York Times as, "one of America's quirkiest writers, if by 'quirky' we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules and a conviction that a novel is primarily a verbal artifact unconvertible to other media." His novel, The Public Burning, is a long and fantastic fictional account of the events surrounding the executions for espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1952, whose principal narrator identifies himself as the then-Vice President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. His other publications include Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party, Pinocchio in Venice, and Briar Rose.

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Length: 1:25:48; Size: 39.4 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on March 9th, 2005.

Rikki Ducornet, author of six novels to date, writes sensuous, imaginative, complicated fables, mixing reality and exotic dreams. In this program, she reads from her novel, The Fan-Makers Inquisition, before joining in conversation with fiction writer, Joanna Scott.

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Length: 1:09:04; Size: 33.2 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on April 20th, 2005.

George Saunders, called by The Atlantic Monthly, "the most talented goof-off writing fiction today" has two books of short stories, Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline. He reads here from the stories, "My Guilty Pleasures" and "A Barber's Unhappiness", before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm.

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Length: 1:19:03; Size: 37.9 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on May 17th, 2006.

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Stuart Dybek writes of characters so ethnic and working-class that they would have appealed to Nelson Algren and his poolroom pals. In his novels, short stories, and poetry, Dybek reflects the magic of ethnicity and the power which oral storytelling has to fashion new myths. After reading from his work, Dybek joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary talk show on radio, Bookworm.

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Length: 1:10:52; Size: 34.0 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on May 10th, 2006.

T. Coraghessan Boyle is a prodigious fiction writer with ten potent novels and counting. Boyle is also a virtuoso short story writer, and always hip to the latest in social culture that he delights in skewering with his trademark wit. After reading from his work, T. Coraghessan Boyle joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary radio talk show, Bookworm.

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Length: 1:26:13; Size: 41.4 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on April 5th, 2006.

Peruvian born Mario Vargas Llosa is internationally recognized for his culturally and politically charged novels. He has said, "I think literature is impoverished if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life." After reading from his work, Vargas Llosa joins in conversation with Efraín Kristal, a professor of Spanish and comparative literature and a specialist in Varga Llosa's work.

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Length: 1:17:00; Size: 36.9 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on January 18th, 2006.

These two nationally recognized poets, these two long-time friends, have collaborated on two books, the most recent being Braided Creek. In this program, they each read from the book without identifying whose work it is they are reading. In short, evocative and often very funny works, the two friends comment of the state of the world, their health, the weather, and all the while their joy in friendship comes to life.

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[Length: 1:13:53; Size: 35.5 MB]

Recorded in Santa Fe, April 9th, 2003.

Ahdaf Soueif, born in Egypt and living in London, brings her knowledge of Arab history, culture and gender politics into her English-language novels and stories. Here she reads from her novel, The Map of Love, and then joins in conversation with Bookworm host, Michael Silverblatt.

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Length: 1:29:39; Size: 43 MB