Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers
Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Richard Powers, Max Apple, Emily St. John Mandel, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Neal Stephenson, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others. These writers have won some of the top literary awards such as the Nobel, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Booker, and Hugo awards. Conducted at the time the writer’s latest book was published, each interview displays the kind of depth and fascinating detail that can only be achieved when the interviewer comes equipped with a deep, broad knowledge of his subject’s work. The resulting conversations range over a spectrum of contemporary and classic fiction and poetry, revealing much about the writers’ impulses, backgrounds, and sources of inspiration. Talk Talk will not only help lay readers gain insight into the works of these important writers but will become a valuable resource for scholars and students.
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Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers
Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Richard Powers, Max Apple, Emily St. John Mandel, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Neal Stephenson, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others. These writers have won some of the top literary awards such as the Nobel, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Booker, and Hugo awards. Conducted at the time the writer’s latest book was published, each interview displays the kind of depth and fascinating detail that can only be achieved when the interviewer comes equipped with a deep, broad knowledge of his subject’s work. The resulting conversations range over a spectrum of contemporary and classic fiction and poetry, revealing much about the writers’ impulses, backgrounds, and sources of inspiration. Talk Talk will not only help lay readers gain insight into the works of these important writers but will become a valuable resource for scholars and students.
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Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers

Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers

Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers

Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers

Overview

Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Richard Powers, Max Apple, Emily St. John Mandel, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Neal Stephenson, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others. These writers have won some of the top literary awards such as the Nobel, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Booker, and Hugo awards. Conducted at the time the writer’s latest book was published, each interview displays the kind of depth and fascinating detail that can only be achieved when the interviewer comes equipped with a deep, broad knowledge of his subject’s work. The resulting conversations range over a spectrum of contemporary and classic fiction and poetry, revealing much about the writers’ impulses, backgrounds, and sources of inspiration. Talk Talk will not only help lay readers gain insight into the works of these important writers but will become a valuable resource for scholars and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780875657929
Publisher: TCU Press
Publication date: 09/05/2022
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

ALLAN VORDA’s previous books include Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Writers and Psychedelic Psounds: Interviews from A to Z with 60s Psychedelic and Garage Bands.

Table of Contents

Foreword Mark Haber xv

Author's Preface xix

A Continuing Act of Wonder: An Interview with Max Apple 2

The Author with the Unpronounceable Name: An Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi 22

The Forging of Science Fiction: An Interview with Greg Bear 37

The Productive Procrastination of Robert Stone: An Interview with Madison Smartt Bell 59

Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead: An Interview with Paula Byrne 75

The Which Way Tree: An Interview with Elizabeth Crook 81

Arranging Memory: An Interview with Kim Echlin 92

Habit of Mind: An Interview with Jennifer Egan 104

The Paradox of Happiness: An Interview with Aminatta Forna 118

A Fish Swims in My Lung: Two Interviews with Cristina Garcia 130

The Quixotic Search for Melancholy: Two Interviews with Mark Haber 149

A Hard Kind of Play: Two Interviews with Ron Hansen 164

Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro 189

I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid 218

The Social Fabric: An Interview with valerie louise 243

The Golden Mean: An Interview with Annabel Lyon 255

Too Good to Be True: An Interview with Emily St. John Mandel 266

Writing Sontag's Life and Work: An Interview with Benjamin Moser 278

A New Enlightenment: An Interview with Steven Pinker 293

A Fugitive Language: Two Interviews with Richard Powers 306

A Life of Perished Things: An Interview with Marilynne Robinson 337

Alexander the Great: An Interview with James Romm 364

Discovery in Darkness: An Interview with Samanta Schweblin 375

Examining the Disease: An Interview with Hubert Selby Jr. 384

The Fifth Heart: An Interview with Dan Simmons 406

The Spatial Lattice of Consciousness: An Interview with Neal Stephenson 418

The Apostle of the Strung-Out: An Interview with Robert Stone 428

Acknowledgments 451

Index 453

About the Author 474

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