Powell's Books: Author InterviewsPowells.com's exclusive interviews with today's hottest authorsInterview with Aleksandar Hemon- May 20, 2008 Aleksandar Hemon, who came to the United States in 1992 from his native Bosnia, and then stayed on after war broke out in Sarajevo, began writing in English in 1995. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004, and has drawn plenty of comparisons to Nabokov both because of his circumstances and his crackling, inventive, and blackly funny prose. The New York Times has called him "an extraordinary writer....not simply gifted, but necessary." In The Lazarus Project, Hemon reconstructs the story of...http://powells.com/partner/12/authors/aleksandarhemon.html?utm_source=author_interviews&am... Interview with Barbara Walters- May 7, 2008 The first woman to co-anchor a network news program. Arguably the most influential interviewer of the 20th century. An American icon. Barbara Walters addresses it all in her incredible new memoir, but in fact it's her family story &151; the human story, pocked with inevitable failures and regrets &151; that forms the backbone of Audition. In conversation with Powell's, Walters talked about Baba Wawa, the art of not interrupting, life choices as evidenced by two Hepburns, W's muddy barn, NBC..http://powells.com/partner/12/authors/barbarawalters.html?utm_source=author_interviews&... |