Books Interviews

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  • The Salon Interview - Ken Kalfus

    For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
    By Dwight Garner July 23, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Richard Powers

    The author of "Gain" on cancer, corporations, the blankness of the Midwest and the elusive art of seducing readers.
    By Laura Miller July 23, 1998

  • Resurrection Man

    Richard Price talks about getting off drugs, getting out of Hollywood and his new novel, based on the Susan Smith case.
    By Dwight Garner May 13, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Isaac Bashevis Singer

    In his final interview, the late Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer grappled with the nature of God, evil, love and the universal humanity of the Holocaust
    By Norman Green April 28, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Dorothy Allison

    Laura Miller interviews Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina' and 'Cavedweller'
    By Laura Miller March 31, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Ian McEwan

    Dwight Garner talks to Ian McEwan, the black magician of contemporary fiction, about mortality, gossip and his arresting new novel, 'Enduring Love.'
    By Dwight Garner March 31, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Nadine Gordimer

    The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order.
    By Dwight Garner March 9, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - P.D. James

    The Art of Murder - Jennifer Reese interviews P.D. James, author of the literary mystery novels 'A Certain Justice,' 'Shroud for a Nightingale' and 'Devices and Desires'.
    By Jennifer Reese February 26, 1998

  • The Salon Interview: Stanley Crouch

    Author and critic Stanley Crouch offers sharp and commonsensical views on President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, multiculturalism and the American identity, Spike Lee and Johnnie Cochran.
    By Jonathan Broder February 25, 1998

  • The Sadistic Muse

    The Salon Interview - Laura Miller interviews Martin Amis about his new book, "Night Train" and the disturbing memoir he's working on.
    By Laura Miller February 10, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Toni Morrison

    Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison talks about her new book, "Paradise," what she learned from her marriage and why O.J. Simpson is innocent.
    By Zia Jaffrey February 2, 1998

  • The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal

    An interview with Gore Vidal by Chris Haines.
    By Chris Haines January 14, 1998

  • Russell Banks

    Novelist Russell Banks talks about "The Sweet Hereafter," "Continental Drift" and other work that has suddenly become hot property in Hollywood.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 5, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Russell Banks

    Novelist Russell Banks talks about "The Sweet Hereafter," "Continental Drift" and other work that has suddenly become hot property in Hollywood.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 5, 1998

  • Haruki Murakami

    Laura Miller and Don George interview Haruki Murakami, author of 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,' 'A Wild Sheep Chase' and 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.'
    By Laura Miller December 16, 1997

  • Mark Leyner

    Laura Miller interviews Mark Leyner, author of 'My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist,' 'Etu, Babe' and the new novel, 'Tetherballs of Bouganville.'
    By Laura Miller December 8, 1997

  • Allan Gurganus

    Allan Gurganus, the not-quite-oldest survivor of New York's 15-year-long gay party, tells all about his relationship with John Cheever, learning to write on an aircraft carrier, Whitman's heroism and the redemptive power of laughter.
    By Dwight Garner December 8, 1997

  • Gus Van Sant

    In the 'Pink' By Cynthia Joyce. Director Gus Van Sant talks about his first novel.
    By Cynthia Joyce October 24, 1997

  • Edmund White

    Daniel Reitz interviews Edmund White, author of 'The Farewell Symphony,' 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'The Beautiful Room is Empty.'
    By Daniel Reitz October 15, 1997

  • The Salon Interview, Caleb Carr

    Dwight Garner interviews Caleb Carr, the author of 'The Alienist' and 'The Angel of Darkness.'
    By Dwight Garner October 4, 1997

  • Arundhati Roy

    Salon magazine: The Salon Interview: Arundhati Roy. The author of 'The God of Small Things' talks about India, the obscenity charge she faces and how writing is like architecture. By Reena Jana.
    By Reena Jana September 30, 1997

  • Tom Clancy

    A defense correspondent, interviewing a best-selling author and a retired general about their new book on the Gulf War, steps into a minefield.
    By John Donnelly June 4, 1997

  • Hughes' views

    Art critic Robert Hughes.
    By Gary Kamiya May 23, 1997

  • Mary Karr

    Salon magazine: An interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club about memoirs, Texas, childhood, Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss, child abuse, writing, literature, autobiography. By Dwight Garner
    By Dwight Garner May 21, 1997

  • "Christ was quite anti-family"

    An interview with Stephanie Coontz, author of "The Way We Never Were" and "The Way We Really Are".
    By Lori Leibovich May 20, 1997
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