Insightful interviews with eight masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, Marya Zaturenska.

Robert Phillips is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston. He has published numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and editions of literary works, including The New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska, also published by Syracuse University Press.