Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing
Conversations with Ted Kooser
Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America
Conversations with Michael McClure
Over forty years of interviews revealing the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture
Conversations with Ben Okri
Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker Prize
Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry
Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Interviews that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined Carter’s life as a national public figure for the last fifty years—and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment
Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
An indispensable source to American literature and African American studies offering an account of Ward’s intelligent and thoughtful responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writing, civil rights, Black aesthetics, race, and culture
Conversations with Beth Henley
Nearly forty years of interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter
Conversations with Terrence McNally
Interviews with the Tony Award-winning librettist of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime and collaborator on the opera Dead Man Walking
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Interviews with the queer Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor known for her novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
Hard-to-find interviews with the ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of the Hap and Leonard short stories, Bubba Ho-Tep, and episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series
Conversations with Billy Collins
A collection of interviews with one of America’s most popular poets who is widely praised for creating a rare blend of accessible and intelligent verse
Conversations with George Saunders
Collected interviews with the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize-winning author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo
Conversations with Diane di Prima
Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter
Conversations with LeAnne Howe
The first collection of interviews with the innovative and critically acclaimed Choctaw writer who is known for her striking books, plays, and poetry depicting the Native American experience
Conversations with Dave Eggers
A collection of thirty-four interviews with a publisher, editor, and bestselling writer who is known for his range of works and breadth of philanthropic pursuits
Conversations with Sam Shepard
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Conversations with Angela Davis
Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century
Conversations with Steve Erickson
A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism
Conversations with Donald Hall
Collected interviews with a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher
Conversations with John Berryman
All of Berryman’s major interviews, personality pieces, profiles, and local interest items
Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
The first volume to collect all of Hansberry’s substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print
Conversations with Dana Gioia
The first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Collected interviews with the widely acclaimed African writer and outspoken intellectual who is known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism
Conversations with Joanna Scott
Collected interviews with a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer who is known for her jolting and illuminating fiction
Conversations with Graham Swift
Collected interviews with the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Last Orders and Waterland
Conversations with John Banville
Collected interviews with the author of Long Lankin, Mrs. Osmond, and The Sea, the last of which won the Man Booker Prize