Summary: Once touted as one of "the best American writers of the younger generation” by Saul Bellow, Padgett Powell’s newest work, The Interrogative Mood, is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language in which every sentence is a question. Often compared to David Foster Wallace or George Saunders, Powell’s new book explores what it feels like to hear the swing and snap of American talk. Powell is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels, including Edisto, which was nominated for the American Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Recorded live on October 28, 2009 from the Minneapolis Central Library's Pohlad Hall. The Talk of the Stacks is presented by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County and the Private Client Reserve at US Bank.
