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David L. Ulin, book editor for the L.A. Times, blogs about our new title The Lost Saranac Interviews: Forgotten Conversations With Famous Writers, by Joe and Connie Bellamy. Here’s a snippet:

Paging through this book makes me wish I could build a time machine and go back to the late 1970s, just so I could see it for myself. Partly, it’s the participants — among the bits and pieces here are interviews with Annie Dillard, Russell Banks and a very young Ann Beattie, as well as panels on “The Place of Autobiography in Fiction” with John Hawkes and Gail Godwin, and “The Pitfalls of First Novels” with Charles Simmons and E.L. Doctorow.

But equally alluring are the book’s copious photographs, which make me wonder: Is it possible that the world could ever be so young? There’s Dillard, looking like a high school kid in a baseball hat and pigtails, or Doctorow, Jayne Anne Phillips, Daniel Halpern and William Kittredge relaxing on the sun-splashed deck.

Actually, it’s less the literary talk than these pictures that keep me coming back. To see all those writers hanging out together is like getting a glimpse of some long lost, peaceful summer in which, it seems, there was nothing but time. Given our own rushed and desperate moment, that’s something to long for, and it’s what makes this unexpected volume resonate.

Our newest Fall 2007 title, How I Got Published, edited by Ray White and Duane Lindsay, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending October 21. Click on the cover to read more about this title.

Our newest Fall 2007 title, How I Got Published, edited by Ray White and Duane Lindsay, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending October 14. Click on the cover to read more about this title.

One of our most popular backlist books, Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending October 7. Click on the cover to read more about this title.

One of our most popular backlist books, Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending September 30. Click on the cover to read more about this title.