Doris Lessing : conversations /
In these twenty-four interviews spanning several decades, Doris Lessing talks frankly to a variety of interviewers--among them Joyce Carol Oates and Studs Terkel--about such subjects as her early years in Rhodesia, her involvement in Marxism and Sufism, her views on feminism, and her own fiction, es...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Ontario Review Press ;
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Talking as a person / Roy Newquist
- The inadequacy of the imagination / Jonah Raskin
- Learning to put the questions differently / Studs Terkel
- One keeps going / Joyce Carol Oates
- The capacity to look at a situation coolly / Josephine Hendin
- Creating your own demand / Minda Bikman
- Testimony to mysticism / Nissa Torrents
- The need to tell stories / Christopher Bigsby
- Writing as time runs out / Michael Dean
- Running through stories in my mind / Michael Thorpe
- Placing their fingers on the wounds of our times / Margarete von Schwarzkopf
- Breaking down these forms / Stephen Gray
- Acknowledging a new frontier / Eve Bertelsen
- The habit of observing / Francois-Oliver Rousseau
- Caged by the experts / Thomas Frick
- Living in catastrophe / Brian Aldiss
- Watching the angry and destructive hordes go by / Claire Tomalin
- Drawn to a type of landscape / Sedge Thomson
- A writer is not a professor / Jean-Maurice de Montremy
- The older I get, the less I believe / Tan Gim Ean and others
- Unexamined mental attitudes left behind by communism / Edith Kurzweil
- Reporting from the terrain of the mind / Nigel Forde
- Voice of England, voice of Africa / Michael Upchurch
- Describing this beautiful and nasty planet / Earl G. Ingersoll.