http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/front-row/american-authors/
It's a bit of a groupie thing to do I admit. Worth listening a bit though...
The American Authors Collection
ROTH, VONNEGUT, MORRISON, UPDIKE, EGGERS...
Listen online to feature-length interviews with the greatest American writers from 1939 to the present.
A desert landscape.
To tie in with Mark Lawson's landmark Capturing America series, Front Row presents author interviews recorded between 1998 and 2009.
All are available here permanently.
A - Z American author interviews
* Edward Albee
Edward Albee (2004)
Playwright Edward Albee discusses his career.
* John Asbery
John Ashbery (2008)
John Ashbery talks about his career in a conversation recorded for Front Row and Capturing America.
* Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell (2001)
Patricia Cornwell discusses her life and her career as a crime writer.
* Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (2003)
Don DeLillo author of Libra, Underworld and Cosmopolis.
* E L Doctorow
E L Doctorow (2010)
E L Doctorow talks about novels including Ragtime and Homer and Langley.
* Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (2000)
Dave Eggers author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius talks to Mark Lawson.
* James Ellroy
James Ellroy (2009)
Ellroy talks about Blood's A Rover, which completes his Underworld USA Trilogy and why he has to shut himself away to write.
* John Irving
John Irving (2005)
John Irving author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules.
* Stephen King
Stephen King (1998)
Stephen King discusses writing horror
* Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (2007)
Norman Mailer speaking in the last major broadcast interview of his life.
* Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (2008)
Nobel prize winning author Toni Morrison talking to Mark Lawson at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
* Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley (2010)
Walter Mosley books include a series featuring Private Investigator Easy Rawlins.
* Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (2010)
Joyce Carol Oates author of over 50 novels including Blonde and Black Water.
* Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson (2005)
Marilynne Robinson author of novels including Housekeeping and Gilead.
* Philip Roth
Philip Roth (2007)
Philip Roth speaking as he published his last novel featuring the character Nathan Zuckerman Exit Ghost.
* Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (2010)
Jane Smiley author of A Thousand Acres and Horse Heaven speaks to Mark Lawson.
* John Updike
John Updike (2002)
John Updike speaking on his 70th birthday.
* John Updike
John Updike (2008)
John Updike speaking in his last recorded interview.
* Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (1999)
Gore Vidal discusses writing and politics.
* Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2006)
Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, speaking as he publishes a memoir called A Man Without a Country.
* August Wilson
August Wilson (2001)
Playwright August Wilson discusses his attitude to writing.
* Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1999)
Tom Wolfe explains the ideas behind new journalism.
* Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (2004)
Tom Wolfe discusses new journalism and a novel depiciting sex amongst college kids; I Am Charlotte Simmons.
It's a bit of a groupie thing to do I admit. Worth listening a bit though...