Conversations about writing with 20th century authors working at the height of their powers in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: Carlos Fuentes, Robert Bly, Eudora Welty, Evan S. Connell, Paul West, Isabel Allende, Russell Banks, David Citino, Annie Dillard, Donald Hall, Charles R. Johnson, Gordon Lish, Reginald McKnight, Joyce Carol Oates, Edouard Roditi, Margaret Atwood, and Ronald Sukenick.