Listen to Their Voices: 20 Interviews with Women Who Write

Following the success of her earlier essay interviews, Mickey Pearlman again demonstrates her adeptness in using the interview as an artistic medium. Leading novelists, short story writers, poets, and writers of nonfiction--twenty voices in all--talk candidly about childhood, religion, racial and ethnic identity, the world of publishing, and the respective genres in which they have chosen to write. Contributors: Grace Paley, Gish Jen, Janette Turner Hospital, Margot Livesy, Connie Porter, Fay Weldon, Joy Harjo, Jane Smiley, Cynthia Kodohata, Terry Tempest Williams, Jessica Hagedorn, Shirley Abbott, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sue Miller, Lois Lowry, Susan Kenney, Anne Rice, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, and Melinda Worth Popham