Summary: A distinguished poet, translator, critic and teacher, Edwin Honig wrote dozens of books and poems that attracted critical praise around the world. His seminal translations awakened English-speaking readers to previously overlooked literary giants, resulting in honorary knighthoods from the king of Spain and the president of Portugal. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner paints a deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIRMarcus, Leonard S.
Summary: A collection of interviews with fourteen artists and writers of picture books who, regardless of their country of origin, have had a major impact in the United States
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 MarcusFreeman, John
Summary: National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 FRESummary: "Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the The New York Times Book Review, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamott, and James Patterson. These questions and answers admit us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 BYContents: Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Dorothy Parker -- P.L. Travers -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Euroda Welty -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Mary McCarthy -- Nadine Gordimer -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Toni Morrison -- Susan Sontag -- Joan Didion -- Joyce Carol Oates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.8928 WOMSummary: Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English. Topics from the Contents: The meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daimon Verlag 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Moving, joyful, and insightful collection of conversations with today's living literary legends about the books that changed their lives, made them think, and brought them joy, from 'American's Librarian' Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word PearlGorey, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOREY, EDWARD GoreySnyder, Gary
Summary: Gary Snyder and his friend Jim Harrison meet to discuss love, lives and what has become of them over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.54 SNYDuval, Jean-Francois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sun Dog Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUVHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 Har1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 813.54 HAR
Duras, Marguerite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.912 DURHemingway, Ernest
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HEMMomaday, N. Scott
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 MOMLipsky, David
Summary: Shares the author's travels with the late David Foster Wallace based on interviews from the 1996 "Infinite Jest" book tour, covering such topics as Wallace's literary process, struggles with fame, and battle with mental illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER LIPSummary: A series of conversations between writer Alice Walker and other literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, and Claudia Tate; arranged chronologically from 1973 through 2009.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 WALCorreas de Zapata, Celia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALLENDE, ISABEL CORDick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 DICLessing, Doris May
Contents: Schlueter, P. Introduction.--The small personal voice.--Preface to The golden notebook.--Newquist, R. Interview with Doris Lessing.--Raskin, J. Doris Lessing at Stony Brook: an interview.--Howe, F. A talk with Doris Lessing.--My father.--Afterword to The story of an African farm, by Olive Schreiner.--Allah be praised.--In the world, not of it.--Vonnegut's responsibility.--Ant's eye view: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.9 LESMarcus, Leonard S.
Summary: Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, an historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects anddefends young people's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.44 MARSummary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAUBowles, Paul
Summary: Composer and novelist Bowles sits down for a series of candid interviews at his home in Morocco; includes interviews with composer Rorem and poet Allen Ginsberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007