Interviews from the Edge - 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance

Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps a way through them-for writers and readers alike. -I think it-s frightfully important, and this is really much more difficult than it sounds, only to say what you absolutely believe.- - Christopher Isherwood -Most American writers probably do not think of their writing as a kind of activism. And it shouldn-t have to be-I don-t think we can impose that on writers-but it can be. I think for many writers, the ones I admire-it is.- - Viet Thanh Nguyen -Do y