Conversations with American novelists
Subtitle: the best interviews from The Missouri review and the American Audio Prose Library
By: edited by Kay Bonetti ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bonetti, Kay.; American Audio Prose Library.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Fiction -- Authorship.
Other titles: Missouri review.
Description: Readers of fine novels cherish the opportunity to hear their favorite novelists speak directly, without commentary or interpretation, about how their lives and concerns drive their fiction writing. For twenty years The Missouri Review has brought these readers some of the most compelling and thought-provoking literary interviews in print.

In this collection of fifteen in-depth interviews with contemporary novelists, the authors discuss the style and themes of their work, their writing habits, their cultural and social backgrounds, and larger aesthetic issues with refreshing insight about themselves and their art.
Notes: "Principal works": p. 255-259.
Table of contents: title: Robert Stone; title: Jamaica Kincaid; title: Jim Harrison; title: Tom McGuane; title: Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris; title: John Edgar Wideman; title: Robb Forman Dew; title: Rosellen Brown; title: Peter Matthiessen; title: Scott Turow; title: Margaret Walker; title: Linda Hogan; title: Robert Olen Butler; title: Jessica Hagedorn; title: Larry Brown.