Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish was turned into a successful motion picture by Tim Burton and is now to be a Broadway musical. Wallace has also produced a short film from his short story Full Boat and has a new fanciful, mythical novel The Kings and Queens of Roam. This interview was recorded at...

Cassandra King is a novelist who writes with eloquence and insight about the experience of living as a woman in the South. Her first book Making Waves in Zion was published in 1995. The Sunday Wife followed in 2002, The Same Sweet Girls in 2005, and Queen of Broken Hearts in 2006. Her latest is...

Gay Talese is the distinguished New York-based author of Honor Thy Father about mafia life, Thy Neighbor’s Wife about marriage and changing morality, and The Kingdom and the Power, a behind-the-scenes view of the New York Times. He worked for the Times earlier in his career writing noted pieces...