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Editor, Antaeus magazine Halpern talks about the life history of a literary magazine--and his own collected poetry.

The Great Divorce The writer discusses her complete works, from her early interest in depression and neurosis to her current interest in metamorphosis and transformation.

Crossing the River Slavery is the controlling theme in this discussion of history, family and the African-American experience.

They Whisper The politics of gender in fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Butler discusses the difficulties surrounding a male writer---s creation of female desires and fantasies.

Haruko/Love Poems; Technical Difficulties The author talks about the relationship between her essays and her poetry--that is, the contradictions between political progressivism and personal truth-telling.

Particles and Luck Modern science and its implications for the fiction-writer: how metaphors from physics and chemistry have shaped Louis Jones--- new novel.

The Palace Thief   Author Ethan Canin discusses his inclination to avoid writer's tricks as he matures in his craft...

The FermataWriter Nicholson Baker expresses his surprise at the shock with which critics have greeted this novel, in which a young man discovers that he can stop time. Sexuality, regression, ---mobius-strip--- personality structures and infantile fantasy all play a part in the discussion.

In the second of this two-part conversation, novelist Margaret Atwood takes relates women found in poetry, fable and religion to contemporary feminist narrative.

Author Margaret Atwood discusses her literary origins--fairy tales and romantic literature -- and The Robber Bride in the first of this two-part conversation.