These animated conversations with contemporary American authors foreground in their frankness and energy, the powerful dynamic that relates society, polity, art and ideas to the making of the American mind. These figures–alert to the events and challenges surrounding them–often address the variable human factor in the inequities of power within the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world. Together, they provide an intimate and distinctive portrait of how living American writers view themselves in a world that both frightens and excites them immensely. In his Foreword to the book, Prof. Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English at City University New York, states: “Dr. Ghosh’s engaging colloquies with each of these varied figures bring to mind the work of journalist Studs Terkel, who has spent a lifetime talking to ordinary and extraordinary Americans, and the celebrated interviews with writers that have appeared in the Paris Review over the past half century.â€
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nibir K Ghosh
Author of Calculus of Power: Modern American Political Novel (1997), Nibir K. Ghosh is a Reader in the Department of English Studies and Research at Agra College, Agra. An eminent scholar and critic of American, British and Postcolonial literatures, he has published widely on various political, socio-cultural and feminist issues in prestigious journals. He has edited two poetry anthologies: Poetic Miscellany and Spectrum of Poetic Sensibility. A Ph.D. and D.Litt. in English from Agra University, he also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. He has delivered over 50 Radio Talks on wide ranging topics and lectured on American and South Asian literatures at many campuses in India and the United States. As a Senior Fulbright Fellow (2003-04) at the University of Washington, Seattle, he worked on "Recent Trends in African American Writings with Special Reference to the Fiction of Charles Johnson." An Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he is the Chief Editor of Re-Markings, a biannual journal of research in English.
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