Bücher der Reihe Literary Conversations Series

Soon after Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. This attention would continue until his last days, four decades and forty books later. Conversations with Kingsley Amis includes both the first and last interviews Amis gave.

Interviews with the author of Baby, It's Cold Outside, Chicken Inspector #23, and Crazy like a Fox

Brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa describes his work alternately as "word paintings" and as "music", and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa's literary output.

Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

Collected conversations with the masterful Southern storyteller

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. These interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America's leading men of letters.

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how their novels have been enhanced by both their artistic and matrimonial union.

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oftoutrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroyhas used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels.Conversations with James Ellroy covers a series of interviews given by Ellroyfrom 1984 to 2010, in which Ellroy discusses his literary contribution andhis public and private image.Born Lee Earle Ellroy in 1948, James Ellroy is one of the most criticallyacclaimed and controversial contemporary writers of crime and historicalfiction. Ellroy's complex narratives, which merge history and fiction,have pushed the boundaries of the crime fiction genre: American Tabloid, arevisionist look at the Kennedy era, was Time magazine's Novel of the Year1995, and his novels L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia were adaptedinto films. Much of Ellroy's remarkable life story has served as the templatefor the personal obsessions that dominate his writing. From the brutal,unsolved murder of his mother, to his descent into alcohol and drug abuse,his sexual voyeurism, and his stints at the Los Angeles County Jail, Ellroyhas lived through a series of hellish experiences that few other writerscould claim.Steven Powell is an independent scholar and the co-founder and co-editorof the crime fiction studies website The Venetian Vase. He is the editor ofthe forthcoming 100 American Crime Writers.

Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann's interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest to his star-power.

Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov's numerous print and broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. He offers trenchant, witty views on society, literature, education, the role of the author, and a range of other topics.

Brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America's most prolific and acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa describes his work alternately as "word paintings" and as "music", and his affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations. The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa's literary output.

Michael Crichton (1942-2008), one of the world's most successful authors, had many careers - doctor, novelist, film director, screenwriter - but was best known to millions of readers as 'Father of the techno-thriller'. This title brings together interviews and profiles of this author.

One of so many talents could only be expected to talk superbly, too. Here in over two dozen interviews is the voice of Maya Angelou (1928-2014) telling with strength, warmth, honesty, and dignified pride of her impact upon a difficult world and ultimately of her triumph.