Interviews with novelists Barbara Kingsolver, fiction writer Faye Moskowitz, novelist Jewelle Gomez, and poet Joy Harjo.
July/August 1993
Features
An Interview With Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver, the author of Pigs in Heaven, moves easily among the worlds of poetry, fiction, journalism, science, and social activism, and unites them all in her writing and her life.
An Interview with Faye Moskowitz
Late bloomer Faye Moskowitz talks about the torment and gratification of writing from memory.
An Interview with Jewelle Gomez
Novelist Jewelle Gomez discusses her political background in TV journalism and her literary roots in black and Native American storytelling traditions.
Joy Harjo: An Interview
Poet Joy Harjo talks about how the women’s movement, jazz, and Native American and mainstream U.S. culture have influenced her work.
News and Trends
The Atlantic Monthly Press and Grove Press Merge
President and publisher Morgan Entrekin resides over the newly merged Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press.
$2 Million Advance for First Novel
First-time novelist Allen Folsom receives a $2 million advance from Little, Brown and Company and Warner Books for The Day After Tomorrow, a neo-Nazi thriller.
Perestroika at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
In a move to democratize its membership, one of the country's oldest and most distinguished institutions for writers and artists has voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending the eighty-nine-year-old tradition that separated membership into two levels...