Interview Index

Since 1998, I've had the privilege to interview more than 200 authors and artists. Some interviews were conducted in person, others on the phone. Typically we spoke for between 30 and 60 minutes.

Marc Acito
Lorraine Adams
Gil Adamson
Sherman Alexie
Martin Amis
Roger Angell
Karen Armstrong
Marty Asher
Nicholson Baker
John Balzar
Melissa Bank
Dave Barry
Charles Baxter
Ishmael Beah
Paul Beatty
Alison Bechdel
Aimee Bender
John Berendt
Bob Blumer
Judy Blunt
Anthony Bourdain (2002)
Anthony Bourdain (2006)
Joshua Braff
David Brancaccio
Ann Brashares
Susie Bright
Po Bronson
Geraldine Brooks
Bill Bryson
James Lee Burke
Robert Olen Butler
David Carr
Stephen L. Carter
Michael Chabon
Deepak Chopra
Mary Higgins Clark
Billy Collins
Jill Ker Conway
Mark Costello
Jim Crace
Matthew Crawford
Michael Cunningham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Charles D'Ambrosio
Regan Daley
Meghan Daum
Frank Deford
Pete Dexter
Bryan Di Salvatore
Junot Diaz
Roddy Doyle
Gretel Ehrlich
Bret Easton Ellis
Jeffrey Eugenides
Joshua Ferris
Helen Fielding
Jonathan Safran Foer
Richard Ford
Jonathan Franzen
Ian Frazier
Alexandra Fuller
Daniel Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Malcolm Gladwell
James Gleick
Molly Gloss
Allegra Goodman
Robert Goolrick
Philip Gourevitch
Sue Grafton
David Grann
Brian Greene
Melissa Fay Greene
Linda Greenlaw
Andrew Sean Greer
Lauren Groff
Sara Gruen
Mark Haddon
David Halberstam
Paul Harding
Ethan Hawke
Jason Headley
Chris Hedges
Mariel Hemingway
Amy Hempel
Carl Hiaasen
John Hodgman
A. M. Homes
Nick Hornby
Tony Horwitz
Khaled Hosseini
Pam Houston
Samantha Hunt
John Irving
Pico Iyer
Joe Jackson
Gish Jen
Ha Jin
Steven Johnson
Judith Jones
Heidi Julavits
Miranda July
Norton Juster
Thomas Keller
Christopher Kimball
Haven Kimmel
Dave King
Ross King
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Elizabeth Kostova
Robert Kurson
Laila Lalami
Anne Lamott
Reif Larsen
Erik Larson
William Least Heat-Moon
Dennis Lehane
Annie Leibovitz (1999)
Annie Leibovitz (2008)
Jonathan Lethem
Michael Lewis
David Lipsky
Jim Lynch
Gregory Maguire
Tucker Malarkey
Ben Marcus
Greil Marcus
Jeffrey Masson
James McBride
Colum McCann
Frank McCourt
David McCullough
Alice McDermott
Ian McEwan
David Means
Lydia Millet
Susan Minot
Lee Montgomery
Rick Moody
Christopher Moore
Bharati Mukherjee
Laurie Notaro
Michael Ondaatje
Susan Orlean (2000)
Susan Orlean (2001)
Julie Orringer
Ruth Ozeki
Michael Palin
Christopher Paolini
Ann Patchett
Ridley Pearson
Jacques Pépin
Arthur Phillips
Tamora Pierce
DBC Pierre
Michael Pollan
Tim Powers
Philip Pullman (2000)
Philip Pullman (2003)
Jonathan Raban
David Rakoff
Ruth Reichl
Mary Roach
Robin Romm
Elizabeth Royte
Rita Rudner
Salman Rushdie (2002)
Salman Rushdie (2005)
Richard Russo
Oliver Sacks
Marjane Satrapi
George Saunders
Eric Schlosser
Sally Schneider
Alice Sebold
Jeff Shaara
David Shields
Gary Shteyngart
David Skover
David Small
Jane Smiley
Alexander McCall Smith
Zadie Smith
Dava Sobel
Art Spiegelman
Wesley Stace
Robert Sullivan
Manil Suri
Sarah Susanka
Anthony Swofford
Colm Tóibín
Paul Theroux
Helen Thomas
Craig Thompson
Miriam Toews
Calvin Trillin
Zoe Trope
Vendela Vida
Sarah Vowell
Barbara Walters
Liza Ward
Alice Waters
Matt Weiland
Alan Weisman
Irvine Welsh
Colson Whitehead
Sean Wilsey
Simon Winchester
David Wroblewski