Interviews with Latin American Writers

Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier, Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier. Dalkey Archive Press, $14.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-56478-010-2

Gautier interviews 15 writers, among them widely translated authors such as Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as those less familiar in the U.S., eliciting much about the craft of writing but little about political or social concerns. (Oct.) Gautier's Interviews with Spanish Writers will also be available in October from Dalkey Archive ($14.95 *

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