This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska. Taken from a passage by Henry James, the title speaks to the ""madness"" that drives our greatest works of creativity.Robert Phillips questions his interviewees about their work methods, daily lives, influences, sources of inspiration, relationship to other literary figures, response to critics, choice of genre, and reasons for writing.
- ISBN13 9780815607830
- Publish Date 1 March 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Syracuse University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 221
- Language English