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Consider This, Senora The best-selling novelist talks about writing school, writers who have influenced her, and the particular nature of her characters.

City Poet The life and hoopla of the New York poet Frank O'Hara is described by his biographer.

Joyce Carol Oates discusses issues of feminism and narrative strategy in her novel about a girl gang, set in the late 50's.

The Man in the Ceiling Feiffer talks about The Man in the Ceiling--the first novel for children that he has written as well as illustrated.

Pigs in Heaven Author Barbara Kingsolver discusses political fiction: the novelist's obligation to dramatize insoluble issues without falsely resolving them.

Part II: This great neglected master remembers his friendships and relationships with writers Nathanael West and William Carlos Williams and the literary movements of the last sixty years.

Part I: The great neglected California writer, John Sanford, discusses his writing about the shame and ignominy of American history, the beauties of the land and of the English language.

For Love Sue Miller discusses the relationship between realistic writing technique and internal conceptual structure in her new fiction.

The author of cult and intellectual art-novels explores camp, metaphysics, metaphor, death and sexuality.

Operating Instructions The Northern California novelist talks about her beautifully-felt memoir of single-motherhood.

Part II. Ereveyev, whose work provoked a scandal, discusses Post-Glasnost Soviet Fiction.

A Russian Beauty Part I: The Russian Dissident novelist discusses Russian Gothic writing from Gogol on.

Swimming in the Volcano Michael Silverblatt moderates a conversation on the art of fiction writing between Bob Shacochis and his former student, journalist Jamie Diamond.

Woman of the Inner Sea The inner journey and transformation of a woman who has endured catastrophe is the subject of the Australian novelist's new book.

Against Forgetting The award-winning poet talks about poetry's role in addressing the political atrocities of our century.

Oscar Hijuelos discusses the contrast between the light, happy tone of his new novel and the darkness of his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings.

Writing Dangerously The National Book Critic's Circle Award went to this biography of Mary McCarthy. Biographer Carol Brightman and Mary McCarthy's brother, Kevin McCarthy, reminisce about Mary's literary career.

Novelist /film critic Steve Erickson discusses the unusual narrative strategies that help him to explore the contemporary abyss.

The Jade Cabinet Fairy tales, dreams and ecological feminism are where this writer's mythic novels originate.

Dog Man Stories One of the funniest writers in America writes about pit bulls and the men who raise them and talks about the language he uses to write about American cultures.