interviews

Over the course of several recorded conversations, Andrea Bowers and Catherine Opie reveal the many similarities in their backgrounds and discuss ideas concerning documentary methodologies and community based work. The conversation spans many of the topics they regard central to their practices and responsibilities as artists, from memories and community, to activism, documentary, feminism, war, and environmentalism.

Noam Chomsky, social critic, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek.

Presents a collection of twenty-one interviews conducted with author Margaret Atwood between 1972 and 1989 in which she discusses her career as a writer, feminism, Canadian cultural nationalism, and other topics.

Presents interviews with mythologist Joseph Campbell and notable people he inspired including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, and filmmaker David Kennard.

A discussion of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' literary work, and his often controversial politics, as well as some of his lighter thoughts, are covered in these rare, revealing and in many cases, never-before-translated conversations.

After moving to Los Angeles, Ray Bradbury became an fan of movie stars, spending hours waiting at studio gates to get autographs. He would later get to know many of Hollywood's most powerful figures when he became a major screenwriter, and he details here what it was like to work for legendary directors such as John Huston and Alfred Hitchcock. And then there are all the celebrities--from heads of state like Mikhail Gorbachev to rock stars like David Bowie and the members of Kiss--who went out of their way to arrange encounters with Bradbury. But throughout that last talk, as well as the interviews collected here from earlier in his career, Bradbury constantly twists the elements of his life into a discussion of the influences and creative processes behind his remarkable developments and inventions for the literary form he mastered. Mixed with cheerful gossiping about his travels and the characters of his life, the book portrays Bradbury's life beyond his literary fame as a writer.

When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin's brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything--Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer's last chance to speak at length about his life and work. The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin's career, a conversation that ranges widely over such topics as his childhood in Harlem, his close friendship with Miles Davis, his relationship with writers like Toni Morrison and Richard Wright, his years in France, and his ever-incisive thoughts on the history of race relations and the African-American experience. Also collected here are significant interviews from other moments in Baldwin's life, including an in-depth interview conducted by Studs Terkel shortly after the publication of Nobody Knows My Name. These interviews showcase, above all, Baldwin's fearlessness and integrity as a writer, thinker, and individual.

Filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of a large reservoir of natural gas and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction so he documented his journey to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracking is actually safe, and unearthed a shocking discovery in the process.