Written entirely in questions, Padgett Powell’s extraordinary book somehow manages to overcome a potentially gimmicky premise. The questioner’s obsessive interrogation of the reader superficially ...

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? is a book like no other. It is composed entirely of questions. Some of them are laugh-out-loud funny, others... A Novel? Padgett Powell's Book Defies Genre The ...

Might I ask you a question? How do you feel when the prose that you are reading suddenly erupts into the interrogative, into a question posed directly to you? Are you irritated? Do you feel challenged ...

The question mark that accompanies the subtitle of author Padgett Powell's new book, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? might seem flippant. But Powell's book earns that bit of punctuation. The ...

Reading of Padgett Powell's short story. In an amusing sonata of bizarre questions, three voices ask the listener seemingly random thoughts to a soundtrack of American music. Show more Padgett Powell ...