Listen to Their Voices: 20 Interviews with Women Who Write

by Mickey Pearlman (Editor), Grace Paley (Contributor), Gish Jen (Contributor)

Following the success of her earlier essay interviews, Mickey Pearlman again demonstrates her adeptness in using the interview as an artistic medium. Leading novelists, short story writers, poets, and writers of nonfiction--twenty voices in all--talk candidly about childhood, religion, racial and ethnic identity, the world of publishing, and the respective genres in which they have chosen to write.

Contributors: Grace Paley, Gish Jen, Janette Turner Hospital, Margot Livesy, Connie Porter, Fay Weldon, Joy Harjo, Jane Smiley, Cynthia Kodohata, Terry Tempest Williams, Jessica Hagedorn, Shirley Abbott, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sue Miller, Lois Lowry, Susan Kenney, Anne Rice, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, and Melinda Worth Popham

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

231 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Author Biography: Mickey Pearlman, Ph.D., is an editor and lecturer. She is the editor of A Few Thousand Words About Love, A Place Called Home, and Between Friends; the author of Listen to Their Voices; and the co-author of A Voice of One's Own.

Reviews

[Karah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would have loved a longer interview with Connie Rose Porter. But then again, I would love a broader audience for this woman. Connie Rose Porter wrote the Addy series for American Girl. I followed up to read Imani All Mine. Now I must read All Bright Court. And the rest of the Addy books.


Kudos to each writer!!!

[Jenna Lenhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun read about incredible writers. I now know what I'm reading this year...

[missy jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the interview with Terry Tempest Williams most of all.