This volume marks the continuation of a distinguished series from Pushcart Press in association with Publishers Weekly. PW's Sybil Steinberg culls the best author interviews from hundreds of her recent columns. Her first two volumes have gone into several editions and multiple printings. This third volume features interviews with such celebrated authors as John Updike, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Winston Groom, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rick Bass, Seamus Heaney, Susanna Moore, Tobias Wolff, Doris Lessing, John Gregory Dunne, Robert Harris, and dozens more. Publishers Weekly's editorial director, John Baker, provides the introduction.