To read these interviews given between 1969 and 1996 is to gain insights into William Kennedy's high seriousness in pursuing the craft of fiction and to witness the artistic growth of this remarkable writer. The twenty-four interviews in this collection reveal how the opportunities and challenges in Kennedy's writing life parallel those other contemporary writers have faced in the last years of the century.

-The high drama of imagined worlds, - he says, -becomes a Rosetta Stone, the key that unlocks the very real mysteries and complexities of our daily lives.-

-You're inventing out...