"In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as "the best mind of his generation" considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own…
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far fro…
Introduction /by David Streitfeld --The gift of place /interview by the 10 Point 5 Editorial Collective, Spring 1977 --Naming magic /interview by Dorothy Gilbert, California Quarterly, no. 13/14, February 1996 --"There is more than one way to see" /interview by George Wickes and…