Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Selves

by John Rodden

When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a performance space for authorial orchestration and self-promotion, and interviewers in turn respond to such self-display and theatrics. Featuring absorbing conversations with nine well-known authors, including poets Richard Howard and Gerald Stern, novelist Isabel Allende, and scholar-intellectual Camille Paglia, Performing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080322236X
• ISBN13: 9780803222366
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"