Speaking Volumes: Conversations With Remarkable Writers

Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and often funny.

In this new collection, Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand-new ones with some of the most important writers of our times.

Through Koval, we are privy to the extraordinary minds of Joseph Heller, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, David Malouf, P. D. James, John Mortimer, Ian McEwan, Amos Oz, Gore Vidal, Harold Pinter, John le Carr , Barry Lopez, Malcolm Bradbury, William Gass, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, Andr Brink, John Banville, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Enright, among others.

Ramona Koval is an Australian broadcaster, writer, and journalist. She is the presenter of The Book Show on ABC Radio National and the author of a novel, Samovar, and four nonfiction books, including Jewish Cooking.