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 ...

Do any of you readers recall what the subjunctive mood means? It’s a term my daughter was studying for an eighth-grade English test last night, along with interrogative mood, indicative mood and some ...

The acclaimed writer Padgett Powell is fascinated by what it feels like to walk through everyday life, to hear the swing and snap of American talk, to be both electrified and overwhelmed by the mad ...

Padget Powell's book is like none other: it is composed entirely of questions. Wildly ridiculous and laugh-out-loud funny, it can suddenly turn... Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable?

With his 2009 The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?, Padgett Powell produced one of the most readable literary oddities of the past decade. In that book, a narrator — perhaps the author himself — fired off ...

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 ...