Conversations with Steve Erickson

Edited by Matthew Luter & Mike Miley
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving ...

Conversations with Donald Hall

Edited by John Martin-Joy, Allan Cooper, and Richard Rohfritch
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on ...

Conversations with John Berryman

Edited by Eric Hoffman
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

The poetry of John Berryman (1914–1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century, and ...

Conversations with Dana Gioia

Edited by John Zheng
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) ...

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Mollie Godfrey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Honorable Mention Recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship

Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her ...

Conversations with Jay Parini

Edited by Michael Lackey
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he ...

Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Edited by Daria Tunca
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, ...

Conversations with Joanna Scott

Edited by Michael Lackey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful ...

Conversations with Graham Swift

Edited by Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift’s arrival in New York to ...

Conversations with John Banville

Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll & John Cusatis
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although ...