Conversations with Joanna Scott

<p>Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary is twisted and demented.</p><p>Conversations with Joanna Scott presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing. Witty probing wide-ranging and insightful Scott's off-the-cuff observations about literature and life are as thought-provoking as some of the most memorable lines and scenes in her fiction. Not only shedding new light on Scott's fiction Conversations with Joanna Scott also illuminates enduring areas of inquiry like the challenge of trying to make art out of sentences; the effort to recover and imagine lost stories from the past; the changing status of the literary imagination; fictional portraiture and the productive possibilities that come from blending biography and fiction; and concerns about literacy.</p><p>Joanna Scott has made her name through brilliant award-winning novels but this volume clarifies why she is also one of America's leading public intellectuals and an astute critic of literature and culture.</p>