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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Powell (Mrs. Hollinsworth's Men) is in playfully provocative, top form in this slender book fashioned solely as a series of questions beginning with his limpid first: “Are your emotions pure?” and ...

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 ...