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    Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers

    By Ramona Koval

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    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 Carré, Barry Lopez, Malcolm Bradbury, William Gass, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, André Brink, John Banville, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Enright, among others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateAug 30, 2010
    ISBN9781921753329
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    Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers
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    Ramona Koval

    Ramona Koval has published several books, including a novel, Samovar. She has written for many newspapers and international journals, and her interviews have been published in book form. Her latest collection of Radio National interviews is Tasting Life Twice: Conversations with Remarkable Writers. In 1995 she won the Order of Australia Media Award.

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      Ramona Koval is a successful journalist, radio broadcaster, published author and editor. During her career she has interviewed countless authors (here and overseas) and is one of Australia's biggest names in books and literature.Speaking Volumes - Conversations with Remarkable Writers is just that, a collection of interviews with some famous and some fascinating writers from across the globe.My favourite interview from the collection was without doubt her interview with Les Murray, conducted in 1997. Les takes Ramona on a tour of his area, and her questions throughout reveal so much about the famous Australian poet, and was quite nostalgic too.I was impressed by just how well Ramona appears to have prepared prior to each interview, demonstrating an exhaustive knowledge of her interviewee's writing without showing off. Even the writers being interviewed are sometimes surprised that she has read this or that particular work.I was surprised and very interested to read the following quote from Martin Amis on page 309, that he: "tend[s] to read a generation behind usually" because: "time hasn't had time to weed out the excellent from the not-so-excellent..." Readers who try to stay on reading trend and only read latest releases should bear this in mind.Published in 2010, my only complaint about Speaking Volumes was that so many of the interviews were conducted more than a decade ago. This passage of time doesn't mean the interviews aren't worth reading today, however I would have really enjoyed the inclusion of more recent material.I recommend Speaking Volumes to readers looking to discover new authors, book-lovers who enjoy author interviews or the aspiring writer looking for pearls of wisdom or the inspiration behind some great authors.