Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street poet to Nobel Laureate. First published in 2006, this acclaimed collection brought together the best interviews and encounters with Bob Dylan to create a multi-faceted, cultural, and journalistic portrait of the artist and his legacy. This edition includes...

"In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume. Based on 400 hours of candid conversations, Inside the Clinton White House adds color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his administration"-- Provided by publisher.

"Featuring luminaries such as Chinua Achebe and Lou Reed, from Bob Dylan to Dr. Seuss, from Carl Sagan to Elizabeth Taylor, the conversations in Listening brim with fun cultural trivia, astute psychological observations, and the rare candid look at larger than life personalities. This mosaic is the culmination of a life's work and will be beloved by casual and serious readers alike"-- Provided by publisher.

National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat,...

Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology.

Over Kathleen Turner's forty-year career, she has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor. In conversations with film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares her lessons with the world.