{"product_id":"9780826211361","title":"Conversations with American Novelists: The Best Interviews from the Missouri Review and the American Audio Prose Library","description":"\u003cp\u003eReaders 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally conducted for the American Audio Prose Library, the interviews were then edited for publication in \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review.\u003c\/i\u003e Here they are reproduced with an introduction and with a brief biographical and bibliographical headnote for each writer. These candid interviews with some of our favorite novelists are sure to delight all readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Authors Interviewed in This Volume:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Stone\u003cbr\u003e Jamaica Kincaid\u003cbr\u003e Jim Harrison\u003cbr\u003e Tom McGuane\u003cbr\u003e Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris\u003cbr\u003e John Edgar Wideman\u003cbr\u003e Robb Forman Dew\u003cbr\u003e Rosellen Brown\u003cbr\u003e Peter Matthiessen\u003cbr\u003e Scott Turow\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Walker\u003cbr\u003e Linda Hogan\u003cbr\u003e Robert Olen Butler\u003cbr\u003e Jessica Hagedorn\u003cbr\u003e Larry Brown\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017687875824,"sku":"9780826211361","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826211361_p0.jpg?v=1763749965","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826211361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}