Passion and Craft

Richard Ford : important acts -- Bobbie Ann Mason : quiet rebellions -- T. Coraghessan Boyle : entertainments and provocations -- Gina Berriault : ''Don't I know you?'' -- Rick Bass : out of boundaries -- Leonard Michaels : the lyric impulse -- ChristopherTilghman : grappling with the holy mysteries -- Thom Jones : a way of feeling better -- Julia Alvarez : ''A clean windshield'' -- Andre Dubus : ''Passion is better'' -- Jayne Anne Phillips : the mystery of language -- Tobias Wolff : citizens and outlaws.

''The interviews reveal not only the personalities of authors, but also their approaches to writing fiction, poetry, and memoir, and their struggles to achieve with their pen what they envision in their hearts and heads.'' -- April Leo, The Bloomsbury Review