E.L. Doctorow Audio & Video

E.L. Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes, are somehow distinct from their surroundings....

This year's editor, bestselling author E.L. Doctorow, has chosen new works by Raymond Carver, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Walter Mosley, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others.

In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain - sketches for stories, accounts of his affairs, ideas for movies, and obsessions with cosmic processes...

Through the eyes of a great American writer, readers will consider the secrets of literary creativity and whether they're different for science or slapstick comedy.

Doctorow once again delves into a true story of Americana to find inspiration for his most recent novel. The title characters are the infamous Collyer brothers, whose eccentricities included a shared snobbish nature and an obsession with hoarding and protecting their rapidly deteriorating property.

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.

An hour conversation with novelist E.L. Doctorow about his book "The March", a re-telling of General Sherman's famous march to the Atlantic that was nominated for the National Book Award.

General William Tecumseh Sherman's great march comes back from the past in this brilliantly imagined, magisterial Civil War novel by the bestselling author of "Ragtime", "Billy Bathgate", "City of God" and "The Book of Daniel."

The 1930s of New York City was a time of both innocence and Depression - summer dance bands...