Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers - Tapa blanda

'Koval is a thoughtful interviewer, considering the interview an art form, and she approaches each writer individually and with great regard for what she finds in their books. She can equally discuss the value of rationality with Ian McEwan or the propensity of murderers to be dog owners with P.D. James.' -- Lorien Kaye The Age

Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and downright funny. In this new collection, Speaking Volumes- conversations with remarkable writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand new interviews with some of the most important writers of our times. Through Koval, we are privy to the extraordinary minds of Joseph Heller, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, David Malouf, P. D. James, John Mortimer, Ian McEwan, Amos Oz, Gore Vidal, Harold Pinter, John le Carre, Barry Lopez, Malcolm Bradbury, William Gass, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, Andre Brink, John Banville, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Enright, among others.