Books Interviews

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  • The Salon Interview: Fernanda Eberstadt

    An interview with novelist Fernanda Eberstadt, author of When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, Isaac and his Devils, and "Low Tide."
  • The Salon Interview: Robert Stone

    The Salon Interview: Robert Stone. The author who has been called "the apostle of the strung-out" talks about his new story collection, "Bear and His Daughter," and why he is drawn to men and women in extremis.
  • Irish secrets and lies

    An interview with Seamus Deane, author of the novel "Reading in the Dark."
  • John Irving

    Literature's muscle man talks about how he wrestled his writing career to the ground and why he'd like to grind critics' faces into the mat.
  • monogamy

    Everything you've been taught about love is sentimental hogwash, says psychotherapist Adam Phillips. Relationships can't be worked on, women aren't any more dependent than men -- and there's nothing wrong with infidelity.
  • Beach Boy

    26-year-old Alex Garland, author of the harrowing novel "The Beach," talks about the quest for mystery in a world that's too well known.
  • Blood and Laundry

    Margaret Atwood on famous Victorian murderesses, her claim to Connecticut, and the deep satisfaction of a clean, folded towel
  • Eddy L. Harris

    Does a black man have to be black? David Talbot interviews Eddy L. Harris.
  • The last curious man

    The author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" on a few of his magnificent obsessions: colorblindness and botany, the Grateful Dead and Mozart, and the joy of eating fish every night for dinner.
  • Oedipus Wreck

    Laura Miller interviews James Ellroy, Salon's 1996 Best Books of the Year Winner
  • John Edgar Wideman

    Laura Miller interviews author John Edgar Wideman.
  • The Hidden Persuaders

    Mark Derry reviews the book "PR!: A Social History of Spin" by Stuart Ewen.
  • The Salon Interview: Joan Didion

  • John le Carré

    Master of the secret world : John le Carri on deception, storytelling and American hubris.
  • Love and other illegal acts

    Laura Esquivel on "Like Water for Chocolate," destiny and the thoughts of inanimate objects
  • A groove of her own

    Terry McMillan is flying high -- and if you don't like it, get off of her cloud.
  • Stephen Jay Gould

    "Staggering our certainties" about humanity's place at the top of the heap
  • Paul Theroux

  • Dear Diary: Deirdre Bair on the secret life of Anaïs Nin

  • Pulp Friction

    A conversation with the '90s Prince of Porn Paperbacks.
  • Nancy Friday

    Nancy Friday on beauty, witches and good manners in bed
  • Richard Ford

    "It's easy to write about things that fuck up. I'm interested in what happens later."
  • Sharon Olds

    The poet talks about breathing, the Pope's penis, and the necessity of getting out of art's way.
  • Calvin Trillin

    The food writer and humorist gets serious about fathers and sons.
  • A.S. Byatt

    The author of "Possession" on the dark side of utopia, the chains of literary feminism and the albatross of sex
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