Robert A. Caro: "What can a president be? What can a president do?"
The author of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson on his writing process, the challanges historians face,…
James Mustich
James Mustich is the author of the new book 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. A veteran bookseller, he was a founder, and for twenty years publisher, of the book catalogue A Common Reader, and later the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Barnes & Noble Review.
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Before he died in 2007, Kurt Vonnegut granted biographer Charles J. Shields (Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee) access to…
Azar Nafisi
The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran shares some uncommonly good reading.
Richard Powers on Reading, Writing, and the Genomic Code
Richard Powers on his latest novel: “Generosity is a pure fiction and something of a social satire, one that traces…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The author of Half of a Yellow Sun on her new story collection.
Azar Nafisi: Things I’ve Been Silent About
The critic and memoirist on the teaching power of fiction — and the need for a bailout of the imagination.
Billy Collins: Ballistics
An in-depth talk with the former Poet Laureate, author of the newly published Ballistics.
Philip Roth: Indignation
The author on Indignation, panty raids, and the Korean War.
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
The SF legend on Anathem, Snow Crash, fountain pens, and more.
Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn
Salman Rushdie discusses the Mughal Empire, Machiavelli, and the storytelling that animates his new novel.
Theodore Sorensen: Counselor
Ted Sorensen, JFK’s chief counselor, talks about campaigns past and present.
Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke
We talk with Nicholson Baker about his new book, Human Smoke, World War II, and the grain of events.
Richard Price: Lush Life
James Mustich talks with Richard Price about realism, project housing, and his new novel, Lush Life.
Philip Pullman: The Storyteller’s Art
James Mustich talks with Philip Pullman about the power of storytelling and the film version of The Golden Compass.
Translating Tolstoy: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky on translating War and Peace.
Roth on Zuckerman’s Curtain Call
A conversation with the author about Nathan Zuckerman’s final bow.