Revisiting Wallace Stegner's bittersweet tale of two couples whose lives are braided together.

The author of Between Heaven and Here talks about the thin line between motherhood and authorship.

A mansion-full of stuffed beasts provides a haunting setting for a novel of secrets and consequences.

A wryly observant take on twenty-first-century America through the life of one of its most colorful cities.

The acclaimed Norwegian novelist captures the angst of youth and evokes the work of Raymond Carver.

A sprawling aesthetic jumble of a novel finds a unified voice.

A young veteran of the war in Iraq turns to fiction in his struggle to make sense of a perplexing combat.

On the road in search of self-awareness.

The authors -- and old friends -- discuss their writing processes, the countries that are close to their hearts, and the mysteries of love and death.

A star on the rise during Hollywood's Golden Age.

The novelist maps a twenty-first century city through the lives of four of its natives.

The novelist talks war writing, military culture, and the origins of his new novel in Iraq's cubicle combat zone.

A Cockney thug wins the lottery.

After a mysterious flu wipes out most of the U.S. population, a man and his canine companion struggle to survive.

A farmer who loves his cows more than his wife has his world turned upside down by the arrival of a migrant worker.