Interviews from the Edge

Introduction
Mark Yakich (New Orleans Review Editor, 2012-present) and John Biguenet (New Orleans Review Editor, 1980-1992)
The Interviews
Ernest Gaines (1969)
(Interviewed by Gregory Fitz Gerald and Peter Marchant)
Joseph Heller (1971)
(Interviewed by Alexis Gonzalez and John Mosier)
Christopher Isherwood (1975)
(Interviewed by Sarah Smith and Marcus Smith)
Anaïs Nin (1976)
(Interviewed by Jeffrey Bailey)
Lina Wertmüller (1976)
(Interviewed by Ernest Ferlita, S.J. and John Navone, S.J.)
Bertrand Tavernier (1978)
(Interviewed by John Mosier)
Eudora Welty (1978)
(Interviewed by Jeanne Rolfe Nostrandt)
James Tate (1980)
(Interviewed by Joe David Bellamy)
Jorge Luis Borges (1982)
(Interviewed by John Biguenet and Tom Whalen)
Catharine Stimpson (1984)
(Interviewed by Mark Lussier and Peggy McCormack)
Carolyn Heilbrun (1985)
(Interviewed by Mark Lussier and Peggy McCormack)
Armando Valladares (1985)
(Interviewed by William Marling)
James Baldwin (1986)
(Interviewed by David C. Estes)
John Ashbery (1990)
(Interviewed by Paul Munn)
Valerie Martin (1994)
(Interviewed by Mary A. McCay and Christine Wiltz)
Jack Gilbert (1996)
(Interviewed by Ralph Adamo and John Biguenet)
Sheila Heti (2013)
(Interviewed by Ari Braverman)
Susan Bernofsky (2013)
(Interviewed by Clark Allen)
Francine Prose (2014)
(Interviewed by Ari Braverman)
Harold Jaffe (2014)
(Interviewed by Robin Andreasen)
Yuri Herrera (2018)
(Interviewed by Elizabeth Sulis Kim)
Viet Thanh Nguyen (2018)
(Interviewed by Elizabeth Sulis Kim)
Luisa Valenzuela (2018)
(Interviewed by Elizabeth Sulis Kim)
Sister Helen Prejean (2018)
(Interviewed by Mark Yakich)
Acknowledgments
Index

Mark Yakich is the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where he has been editor of New Orleans Review since 2012.


John Biguenet is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He worked as a student intern on the first issue of New Orleans Review in 1968 and edited the magazine from 1980 to 1992.