Bernard Malamud gave his first interview in 1958, his last in 1986. During the intervening twenty-eight years, he was formally interviewed at least forty times. This book collects twenty-eight of the ...

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black ...

This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing. ...

This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent ...

The works of William Faulkner are charged with elements of such great diversity that they are an almost inexhaustible resource for study and analysis. One of the most diverse is the subject of this fascinating ...

“Literary journalist,” “lowly social historian,” “chronicler of his times,” and “champion of realism” are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers ...

With wit, charm, and grace, the interviews in this collection demonstrate what readers of Wilbur's poems long have suspected: that this former U. S. Poet Laureate is no less persuasive and forceful in ...

This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.

These interviews show him as a novelist, ...