The Table Talk of W. H. Auden
Alan Ansen

These previously unpublished conversations on a wide variety of subjects present the personal, offhand, sometimes outrageous opinions of one of the great poets of this century.

"Alan Ansen's conversations with Auden are brilliant, lively, completely characteristic of the poet, and a shining example of Ansen's intelligent understanding and very accurate memory." 
— Stephen Spender

ISBN 0-86538-072-4, $15.95, hardcover

“My Louise is an eloquent, impassioned account of love and loss, grief, rage, and survival. David Collins is bitterly, brilliantly honest as he tells the painful details of his young wife’s death and his own (and his little daughter’s) appalling confrontations with the multiple burdens of bereavement.”
—Sandra M. Gilbert 

“David Collins has written a rich narrative of love and loss and grief. Full of humanity, My Louise is a necessary and compelling text.”
—Thomas Lynch 

“In describing his young widower’s grief and the joys and difficulties of raising a motherless daughter, David Collins has written an honest, measuredly optimistic, and very moving book about the terror of death and the consolation of love.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides 

“This wonderful book is exquisitely written and painfully wrought. Readers will like Collins and love what he has to say.”
—Library Journal

ISBN 0-86538-107-0, $22.95

Doris Lessing: Conversations
Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll

Lessing talks frankly to a variety of interviewers, including Joyce Carol Oates and Studs Terkel, about a wide range of subjects from Marxism to feminism.

ISBN 0-86538-080-5, $13.95 paperback

A gathering of twenty-two interviews with Atwood by other writers, including Graeme Gibson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Geoff Hancock.

ISBN 0-86538-074-0, $14.95 paperback. Also available in hardcover, $19.95.

Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations 1970–2006
Edited by Greg Johnson

ISBN 0-86538-118-6, $17.95 paperback

Women, Animals, & Vegetables
Essays & Stories
Maxine Kumin

"Maxine Kumin's practical yet sensual New England reflections are a gift to any lover of the country."
— New York Times Book Review

"Kumin's essays are so direct and her anecdotes so homey, you almost forget they're the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.... Her essays concentrate on nature, but her stories set in locales as far-flung as Alaska, dramatize the intricacies of familial relationships and celebrate the toughness of women."
— Booklist

ISBN 0-86538-084-8, $12.95 paperback

First Person Singular
Writers on Their Craft
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates

Twenty-nine essays by and conversations with contemporary writers of fiction and poetry, including Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, Maxine Kumin, Reynolds Price, Mark Strand, Ann Tyler, John Updike, and Eudora Welty.

ISBN 0-86538-045-7, $9.95 paperback

New Plays
by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates's fourth and most distinguished collection includes three full-length plays, Bad Girls, Black Water, The Passion of Henry David Thoreau, and eight shorter pieces, which have been performed in various cities throughout the country.

Bad Girls is the story of three teenage sisters who ruin the life of a man who comes between them and their single mother; Black Water is a dramatization of Oates's widely acclaimed novel of that title; and The Passion of Henry David Thoreau is a portrayal of the turbulent life and premature death of one of the romantic heroes of American Literature. The subjects of the shorter pieces range widely, from a serial murder to a nightmarish visit to an adoption agency. In plays ranging from the realistic to the surreal, Oates convincingly demonstrates her mastery of the form.

ISBN 0-86538-089-9, $23.00 hardcover
ISBN 0-86538-090-2, $13.50 paperback

“One night in 1981, Raine witnessed the brutal rape of his friend, Catherine, at a secluded turn of the Mississippi in New Orleans’ Audubon Park. In this haunting memoir, he explores the emotional aftershocks of that event and how it changed, if not defined, the next 20 years of the lives of everyone it affected. With sublime restraint and disarming honesty, Raine comes to terms with his relationship with his uneducated father, with the southern ideal of manhood, and with race and racism in the scalding cultural gumbo that is New Orleans.”—Booklist

“Where the River Bends combines the searing authenticity of nonfiction with the riveting suspense of a crime thriller. Peopled with a colorful cast of characters that would be the envy of any novelist, this memoir is more shocking than fiction in its careful documentation and its relentless, sometimes gruesome details. Raine proves himself a writer of impressive talent as he renders a uniquely painful American story into the stuff of myth.”
—Greg Johnson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 “Honest, biting, and at times terrifying.”
—Kirkus Reviews

ISBN 0-86538-104-6, $19.95

Talking Murder: Interviews with 20 Mystery Writers
by Charles L.P. Silet

A collection of twenty exciting and revealing interviews with American and British mystery writers, Talking Murder includes conversations with Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, Ed McBain, Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others.  Each is accompanied by a photograph of the author.

"The way I write is I think you have a guy and the guy is going to the door and is about to open the door. He doesn't know what's on the other side of that door and neither do I."
—Walter Mosley. 

"I was really blessed to have been a journalist, and I miss it a lot now because every day was an adventure, but in journalism there are so many stories without endings, murders that go unsolved, missing people who stay lost forever, or corpses who go unidentified. One of the beauties and joys of fiction is that you get to write the last chapter." 
— Edna Buchanan

ISBN 0-86538-096-1, $14.00 paperback