Conversations with American Novelists - Tapa blanda

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.

About the EditorsKay Bonetti is founder and Director of American Audio Prose Library.Greg Michalson is Managing Editor of "The Missouri Review." His fiction has been mentioned in "Best American Short Stories" and in the Pushcart Prize anthology. He also serves as General Editor of a prize-winning novel series published by MacMurray and Beck.Speer Morgan is Editor of "The Missouri Review" and Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of four novels, most recently "The Whipping Boy."Jo Sapp has recently returned from a four-year stint in Malaysia, where she studied the literature of the region and wrote short fiction. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and have been included in the "Norton Anthology of Short Fiction."Sam Stowers is sound recordist, audio editor, and coproducer of numerous American Audio Prose Library audio cassettes and radio programs. "