My Thoughts on… Conversations with Nadine Gordimer, edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour

I enjoy reading books that explore the writing process from the perspective of the writer: how the writer does it, what stimulates his or her creativity, and, most importantly of all, why the writer has chosen to pursue what is so often a heartbreaking and difficult profession.

I chose Conversations with Nadine Gordimer from a table of books for sale at my local library, even though I was completely unfamiliar with her work. And while the edited interviews contained therein gave me everything I ...