By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, he worked on his family’s ranch in rural Texas. At night he heard vivid stories of his cowboy uncles d...

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, he worked on his family’s ranch in rural Texas. At night he heard vivid stories of his cowboy uncles d...

An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the authorA unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his suicide in 2008. Complete with an introduction by Foster Wallace's friend and NY Times journalist, David Streitfeld. And including a new, never-before-published interview between Streitfeld and Wallace.

有句玩笑話流傳已久，可以將沙林傑的訪談標題下成〈滾出我的草坪〉，因為他從不願接受採訪。從於1951年出版《麥田捕手》的那一刻起，沙林傑就被痴迷的粉絲、傳記作家和咄咄逼人的記者跟踪。在這本與這位難以捉摸的文學巨擘的罕見而深刻的邂逅中，沙林傑時而心甘情願、時而勉強地討論了成名的衝擊，他的藝術起源，以及他對作家的建議。這些富有啟發性、挑釁性、甚至有趣的對話，揭示了一位作家對聚光燈的強烈抗拒，但又無力逃避它的眩光。如果你是沙林傑粉絲，你會對這本書又愛又恨。有關霍爾頓・考菲爾德，沒有更多可說的了，再讀一遍。一切都在書中。——沙林傑談《麥田捕手》作者／譯者／編者簡介...

從剛出道的第一次到生前最後一次，絕無僅有的馬奎斯訪談集。諾貝爾獎文學獎得主，被《紐約時報》譽為「文學魔法的魔術師」的馬奎斯，他以《百年孤寂》為讀者所熟知，影響力跨越數個世代至今，無疑是全世界最受歡迎的小說家。本書除了馬奎斯生前的最後一次訪談，還收錄了小說家的初次訪談。此外還收錄了馬奎斯與好友孟多薩（Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza）的對談，其中包含了作家對女人、真愛與迷信的見解。對於馬奎斯的終生粉絲和初次接觸大師作品的讀者來說，這是一本必不可少的書。「我很期待某位《觀察家報》的報童會看我的小說，這樣我就可以詢問他的心得，我也很想知道司機、擦鞋匠還有彩券小販是怎麼想的⋯⋯我相信一般百姓都會喜歡這部小說⋯⋯這部小說會受大家歡迎，如此一來也就證明當代小說可以與社會大眾心靈相通。」

“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”—Ursula K. Le GuinWhen she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanni...

An electric collection of interviews--including the first and the last—with one of the 20th century's most prolific, influential, and dazzlingly original writers of science fictionLong before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity, ostracized by the literary establishment. Today he is widely considered one of the most influential write...

Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews that range across his fabled career, Thompson reveals himself as mad for politics, which he thought was both the source of the country’s despair and, just maybe, the answer to it. At a moment w...

From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly—what that onslaught was like, the autobiographical origins of his art, and his advice to writers. Including his final, surprising interview, and with an insightful introduction by New ...

An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature—the only collection of interviews with Marquez availableHailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is surely the most popular literary novelist in translat...