Writing for Your Life

This series is unique in its devotion to the voice of the contemporary author-hundreds of interviews have been featured in the first three volumes. Writing for Your Life #4 marks the continuation of this distinguished series from Pushcart Press in association with Publishers Weekly. PW's Sybil Steinberg and Jonathan Bing cull the best author interviews from hundreds of recent columns. The first three volumes have gone into several editions and multiple printings. This fourth volume features interviews with such celebrated authors as Mary Gordon, George Plimpton, Don DeLillo, Gary Indiana, Nora Roberts, Fred Barthelme, Starling Lawrence, Jane Hamilton, Alfred Kazin, and dozens more. Past editions have included interviews with: John Updike, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Winston Groom, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rick Bass, Seamus Heaney, Susanna Moore, Tobias Wolfe, Doris Lessing, John Gregory Dunne, Robert Harris, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Gore Vidal, Jane Smiley, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Coover, Richard Ford, and many more.