Rebecca Roach is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her work examines world literature and new media.

Literature and the Rise of the Interview gives a detailed account of the actual instances of the interview and the cultural circumstances of literature in its time. ... It elevates the interview as more than a promo or curiosity to a substantive part of literary culture,one pivotal in establishing modern literature and justifying writers' practices in their time.

• Introduction: Through the Keyhole: Skeletons in the Literary Closet Prologue: Setting the Scene... The Hawthorne-Lowell Scandal 1: Authorship, Inscription, and 'The Great American Interviewer' 2: Personality, Celebrity, and Modernism's 'Impossible Interviews' 3: Conversing with Purpose in the Interwar Years 4: 'Control and Communication': The Interview at Mid-Century 5: Legacies of Impersonality: the Paris Review, New Journalism, and the Interviewer 6: Uncreative Writing: Interviews, Literature, and the Work of Contemporary Authorship Coda: Ask Me Anything? The Future of the (Author) Interview

Rebecca Roach is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her work examines world literature and new media.

Literature and the Rise of the Interview gives a detailed account of the actual instances of the interview and the cultural circumstances of literature in its time. ... It elevates the interview as more than a promo or curiosity to a substantive part of literary culture,one pivotal in establishing modern literature and justifying writers' practices in their time.

• Introduction: Through the Keyhole: Skeletons in the Literary Closet Prologue: Setting the Scene... The Hawthorne-Lowell Scandal 1: Authorship, Inscription, and 'The Great American Interviewer' 2: Personality, Celebrity, and Modernism's 'Impossible Interviews' 3: Conversing with Purpose in the Interwar Years 4: 'Control and Communication': The Interview at Mid-Century 5: Legacies of Impersonality: the Paris Review, New Journalism, and the Interviewer 6: Uncreative Writing: Interviews, Literature, and the Work of Contemporary Authorship Coda: Ask Me Anything? The Future of the (Author) Interview

Rebecca Roach is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her work examines world literature and new media.

Literature and the Rise of the Interview gives a detailed account of the actual instances of the interview and the cultural circumstances of literature in its time. ... It elevates the interview as more than a promo or curiosity to a substantive part of literary culture,one pivotal in establishing modern literature and justifying writers' practices in their time.

• Introduction: Through the Keyhole: Skeletons in the Literary Closet Prologue: Setting the Scene... The Hawthorne-Lowell Scandal 1: Authorship, Inscription, and 'The Great American Interviewer' 2: Personality, Celebrity, and Modernism's 'Impossible Interviews' 3: Conversing with Purpose in the Interwar Years 4: 'Control and Communication': The Interview at Mid-Century 5: Legacies of Impersonality: the Paris Review, New Journalism, and the Interviewer 6: Uncreative Writing: Interviews, Literature, and the Work of Contemporary Authorship Coda: Ask Me Anything? The Future of the (Author) Interview