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In 1972 Rudolfo Anaya made a quiet entry into American literature with the publication of Bless Me, Ultima. In this collection of interviews Anaya talks about his life and about how New Mexico, his home state, influences his work. The interviews explore also the importance that myths and spiritual matters play in his writings.

Orally or on the page, John Edgar Wideman never seems to stray far from firsthand experience. "Writing for me is a way of opening up," he states in one of the interviews in this collection. This book spans thirty-five years. Wideman discusses a wide variety of topics - from postmodernism to genocide, from fatherhood to women's basketball.

Collects nineteen interviews, conducted over the past two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, with the author of Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. The interviews collectively address the entirety of this literary artist's career, affording readers of Ishiguro the most vivid portrait yet of contexts and influences behind his novels.

Ever since A Hall of Mirrors depicted the wild side of New Orleans in the 1960s, Robert Stone (1937-2015) has situated novels where America has shattered and the action is at a pitch. In Dog Soldiers, he covered the Vietnam War and drug smuggling. A Flag for Sunrise captured revolutionary discontent in Central America. Children of Light exposed the crass values of Hollywood. Outerbridge Reach depicted how existential angst can lead to a longing for heroic transcendence. The clash of religions in Jerusalem drove Damascus Gate. Traditional town-gown tensions amid twenty-first-century culture wars propelled Death of the Black-Haired Girl.Stone's reputation rests on his mastery of the craft of fiction. These interviews are replete with insights about the creative process as he responds with disarming honesty to probing questions about his major works. Stone also has fascinating things to say about his remarkable life--a schizophrenic mother, a stint in the navy, his involvement with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and his presence at the creation of the counterculture. From the publication of A Hall of Mirrors until his death in 2015, Stone was a major figure in American literature.

Ranging from 2001 to 2016, the twenty-three interviews collected in Conversations with Colson Whitehead reveal the workings of one of America's most idiosyncratic and most successful literary minds.

Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L'Engle transformed from novelist to children's author to Christian writer.

Presents interviews that span the length of Neil Gaimain's career, from his first formal interview by the BBC at the age of seven to a new, unpublished interview held in 2017. They cover topics as wide and varied as a young Gaiman's thoughts on managing anger, learning the comics trade from Alan Moore, and being on the clock virtually 24/7.

Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann's oeuvre is ambitious as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain where his career first took flight, to in-depth visits to his writing and art studio in Sacramento, California.

Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

Soon after Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. This attention would continue until his last days, four decades and forty books later. Conversations with Kingsley Amis includes both the first and last interviews Amis gave.

Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems, in 1992. In Conversations with Sherman Alexie, the writer displays the same passion, dynamic sense of humour, and sharp observational skills that characterize his work.

Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

Collected conversations with the masterful Southern storyteller

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. These interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America's leading men of letters.

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oftoutrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroyhas used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels.Conversations with James Ellroy covers a series of interviews given by Ellroyfrom 1984 to 2010, in which Ellroy discusses his literary contribution andhis public and private image.Born Lee Earle Ellroy in 1948, James Ellroy is one of the most criticallyacclaimed and controversial contemporary writers of crime and historicalfiction. Ellroy's complex narratives, which merge history and fiction,have pushed the boundaries of the crime fiction genre: American Tabloid, arevisionist look at the Kennedy era, was Time magazine's Novel of the Year1995, and his novels L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia were adaptedinto films. Much of Ellroy's remarkable life story has served as the templatefor the personal obsessions that dominate his writing. From the brutal,unsolved murder of his mother, to his descent into alcohol and drug abuse,his sexual voyeurism, and his stints at the Los Angeles County Jail, Ellroyhas lived through a series of hellish experiences that few other writerscould claim.Steven Powell is an independent scholar and the co-founder and co-editorof the crime fiction studies website The Venetian Vase. He is the editor ofthe forthcoming 100 American Crime Writers.

Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of the Harlem-born author and activist.

Often called a ""writer-rock star"" and a ""cult icon"", Dorothy Allison is a true performer of the written word. In the absence of a biography of Allison's life, Conversations with Dorothy Allison presents Allison's perspectives on her life, literature, and her conflicted role as a public figure.

In the twenty-two interviews included in Conversations with Neil Simon, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars. He also speaks at length about the differences between writing for television, for the stage, and for film

Features seventeen interviews with Joan Didion, spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley, in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to John Gregory Dunne; and of course her writing.

Presents the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen. Spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1991 and ending with a new, unpublished interview from 2017, these interviews provide readers a sense of Jen's development as a novelist and cultural critic.

Offers the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences, his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, his extraordinary work as a translator, and his decades-long interest in environmental conservation.

The interviews featured in this volume provide intriguing artistic and biographical insights into Natasha Trethewey's work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet cites diverse influences, from Anne Frank to Seamus Heaney. She emotionally acknowledges Rita Dove's large impact, and she boldly positions herself in the southern literary tradition of Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.

Collects interviews with Jonathan Lethem, a Brooklyn-born author of such novels as "Girl in Landscape", "Motherless Brooklyn", "The Fortress of Solitude", "Chronic City", and many others, that cover a wide range of subjects, from what it means to incorporate genre into literature, to the impact of his mother's death on his life and work.

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Conversations with Walter Mosley covers the breadth of Mosley's career and reveals a craftsman and wryly witty conversationalist.

Brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight White's predilections, his major achievements, and the pivotal moments of his long, varied career.