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Conversations with Jesmyn Ward

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Ted Kooser

Edited by John Cusatis
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America

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Conversations with Michael McClure

University Press of Mississippi

Over forty years of interviews revealing the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture

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Conversations with Ben Okri

University Press of Mississippi

Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker Prize

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Conversations with Sarah Schulman

Edited by Will Brantley
University Press of Mississippi

Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry

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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

University Press of Mississippi

Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence

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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Edited by Bob Blaisdell
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Jimmy Carter

Edited by Tom Head
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Beth Henley

University Press of Mississippi

Nearly forty years of interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter

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Conversations with Terrence McNally

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the Tony Award-winning librettist of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime and collaborator on the opera Dead Man Walking

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Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Billy Collins

Edited by John Cusatis
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with George Saunders

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize-winning author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo

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Conversations with Diane di Prima

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter

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Conversations with LeAnne Howe

University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Dave Eggers

Edited by Scott F. Parker
University Press of Mississippi

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

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Conversations with Sam Shepard

University Press of Mississippi

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

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