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Talk talk : interviews with writers / Allan Vorda.

Van Pelt Library PS371 .V673 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Vorda, Allan, 1948- compiler, interviewer.
Contributor:
Haber, Mark, 1972- writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.
Novelists, American--21st century--Interviews.
Novelists--20th century--Interviews.
Novelists--21st century--Interviews.
Literature and society.
Fiction--Authorship.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:
xxii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Fort Worth : TCU Press, [2022]
Summary:
"Talk Talk: Interviews with Writers covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Max Apple, Greg Bear, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Madison Smartt Bell, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: A Continuing Act of Wonder: An Interview with Max Apple
The Author with the Unpronounceable Name: An Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi
The Forging of Science Fiction: An Interview with Greg Bear
The Productive Procrastination of Robert Stone: An Interview with Madison Smartt Bell
Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead: An Interview with Paula Byrne
The Which Way Tree: An Interview with Elizabeth Crook
Arranging Memory: An Interview with Kim Echlin
Habit of Mind: An Interview with Jennifer Egan
The Paradox of Happiness: An Interview with Aminatta Forna
A Fish Swims in My Lung: Two Interviews with Cristina Garcia
The Quixotic Search for Melancholy: Two Interviews with Mark Haber
A Hard Kind of Play: Two Interviews with Ron Hansen
Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro
I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid
The Social Fabric: An Interview with Valeria Luiselli
The Golden Mean: An Interview with Annabel Lyon
Too Good to Be True: An Interview with Emily St. John Mandel
Writing Sontag's Life and Work: An Interview with Benjamin Moser
A New Enlightenment: An Interview with Steven Pinker
A Fugitive Language: Two Interviews with Richard Powers
A Life of Perished Things: An Interview with Marilynne Robinson
Alexander the Great: An Interview with James Romm
Discovery in Darkness: An Interview with Samanta Schweblin
Examining the Disease: An Interview with Hubert Selby Jr.
The Fifth Heart: An Interview with Dan Simmons
The Spatial Lattice of Consciousness: An Interview with Neal Stephenson
The Apostle of the Strung-Out: An Interview with Robert Stone.
Notes:
Foreword by Mark Haber.
Other Format:
Online version: Vorda, Allan, 1948- Talk talk.
ISBN:
9780875657929
0875657923
OCLC:
1286796915

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