$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications / ISBN:9781921640117
In Conversation: Ben Naparstek talks with 39 Great Writers
Why did Jay McInerney once blow up a lavatory? Why does Peter Handke still mourn the passing of Slobodan Milosević? Why does Michel Houellebecq miss being in a psychiatric hospital? Why doesn’t Wole Soyinka want to visit Australia? And what made Elfriede Jelinek afraid of receiving her Nobel Prize?
From Ben Naparstek, the editor of The Monthly, comes a collection of interviews with 39 of the world’s best writers. In the course of these remarkable encounters, he finds out why — amongst other things — Tony Judt refuses to debate Christopher Hitchens, why Umberto Eco snubbed Stanley Kubrick, why John Malkovich threatened to shoot Robert Fisk, and why James Wood wants to hide behind a pseudonym.
In Conversation offers a series of personal and provocative portraits that illuminate what makes great writers tick.
Ben Naparstek in conversation with Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Carlos Fuentes, Peter Handke, Seamus Heaney, Peter Hoeg, Michel Houellebecq, David Guterson, Elfriede Jelinek, Ismail Kadare, Peter Matthiessen, Jay Mcinerney, Rick Moody, Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, Harry Mulisch, Haruki Murakami, Ben Okri, Per Petterson, Jose Saramago, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Tobias Wolff, A.B. Yehoshua, Ian Buruma, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, John Gray, Robert Fisk, Thomas Friedman, Tony Judt, Robert Kagan, Paul Krugman, Bernard-Henri Levy, Janet Malcom, Catherine Millet, Adam Phillips, Katie Roiphe, Wole Soyinka and James Wood.
