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Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.

Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.

For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.

The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.

Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.

Part II. Ereveyev, whose work provoked a scandal, discusses Post-Glasnost Soviet Fiction.

A Russian Beauty Part I: The Russian Dissident novelist discusses Russian Gothic writing from Gogol on.

Swimming in the Volcano Michael Silverblatt moderates a conversation on the art of fiction writing between Bob Shacochis and his former student, journalist Jamie Diamond.

Woman of the Inner Sea The inner journey and transformation of a woman who has endured catastrophe is the subject of the Australian novelist's new book.

Against Forgetting The award-winning poet talks about poetry's role in addressing the political atrocities of our century.

Oscar Hijuelos discusses the contrast between the light, happy tone of his new novel and the darkness of his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings.

Writing Dangerously The National Book Critic's Circle Award went to this biography of Mary McCarthy. Biographer Carol Brightman and Mary McCarthy's brother, Kevin McCarthy, reminisce about Mary's literary career.

Novelist /film critic Steve Erickson discusses the unusual narrative strategies that help him to explore the contemporary abyss.

The Jade Cabinet Fairy tales, dreams and ecological feminism are where this writer's mythic novels originate.

Dog Man Stories One of the funniest writers in America writes about pit bulls and the men who raise them and talks about the language he uses to write about American cultures.

The Lost Father (Vintage) For writer Mona Simpson , the search for family is a spiritual quest...

Wonders Of The West Kate Braverman, a sort of high-priestess of fiction, discusses prose as incantation--an instrument for the transformation of reality.

Bastard Out Of Carolina The writer talks about story telling, reality, violence, incest and working-class fiction.

Skin The author describes what a short story is, from inspiration to inner meaning.

The Queen's Throat The author offers a frilly and brilliant analysis of the relationship between opera and homosexuality.

(Editor of Stiletto magazine) Expensive paper, complex typographies and multicolored graphics make Stiletto the most lavish independent literary review published in the United States. Its editor delineates the editorial process.

Dunster The beloved author of the Rumpole books tells how he builds his complex plot structures and examines the basic tools of storytelling.

Red Trousseau The poet explores new functions for metaphor in modern poetry: Can a poet debunk old, harmful mythologies and invent new, positive ones?

Saving St. Germ Author Carol Muske-Dukes discusses her humorous novel about a scientist who explores the nature of creation, inspiration, nuclear chemistry and feminism.

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