Conversations with James Salter

Jennifer Levasseur, Kevin Rabalais

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781496803573
• eBook ISBN: 9781496803580
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of sex, and his examinations of the inner lives of women and men. Conversations with James Salter collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is. Gathered here are his earliest interviews following acclaimed but moderately selling novels, conversations covering his work as a screenwriter and award-winning director, and interviews charting his explosive popularity after publishing All That Is, his first novel after a gap of thirty-four years. These conversations chart Salter's progression as a writer, his love affair with France, his military past as a fighter pilot, and his lyrical explorations of gender relations.The collection contains interviews from Sweden, France, and Argentina appearing for the first time in English. Included as well are published conversations from the United States, Canada, and Australia, some of which are significantly extended versions, giving this collection an international scope of Salter's wide-ranging career and his place in world literature.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Ada (Nabokov)

Agee, James

Aimeé, Anouk

“Akhnilo” (Salter)

Aldrin, Buzz

Algonquin

All That Is (Salter)

aesthetic

artistic comparison

character development

comparison to other works

epigraph

excerpt interpretation

imagery

inception

media

personal attributes

plot

publication

reception

religious themes

sexism

title

“Virginia”

writing process. See also Bowman, Phillip

Allfree, Claire

Altemus, Ann

Alvarez, A.

“Am Strande von Tanger” (Salter)

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

“American Express” (Salter)

plot

publication

television production

Salter on

story development

writing process

“American Playhouse”

American Short Story Masterpieces

Anderson, Sherwood

Angell, Roger

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Appointment, The

“Arlington” (Salter)

Arm of Flesh, The (Salter)

military influence

plot

printing

publication

revision

writing process

Armory Show

Army Air Corps

Arthur, George K.

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

“As They Were: American Masters through the Lens of James Salter”

Aspen, Colorado: essay on

history

initial visit

residence

tourism

writing in

Aspen Institute

Atlantic

Atlantic Fiction for Kindle

Autun, France

Babel, Isaac

commentary

influence

works

writing process

Baker, Fred

Bangkok (Salter)

“Bangkok” (Salter)

Banville, John

Barefoot in the Park

Barnes, Julian

Barnett, Edward

Beat Notre Dame

Beattie, Ann

Beattie, Bob

Beautiful Indifference, The (Hall)

Beck, Rosemarie

Becker, Bruce

Bedford, Sybille

Begley, Adam

Beinecke Library

Bellow, Saul

commentary

comparison

friendship

...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• James Salter on the Screenwriter
• Circling Important Themes: An Interview with James Salter
• A Few Well-Chosen Words
• Interview with James Salter
• James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133
• Interview with James Salter
• A Conversation with James Salter
• Dan Pope Talks with James Salter
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Interview with James Salter
• An Interview with James Salter
• In the Light Where Art and Longing Meet: My Day with James Salter
• Life Passes into Pages: A Conversation with James Salter
• Don’t Save Anything: A Conversation with James Salter
• James Salter
• Master of the Slow Reveal
• James Salter–en intervju [an interview]
• Another Kind of Life: Jonathan Lee interviews James Salter
• Salter on Salter: An Interview
• You Are Writing What You Are, All the Time: A Conversation with James Salter
• Life and Everything That Happened: An Interview with James Salter
• Entretien avec James Salter : “J’essaie de me préserver des autres voix quand je travaille.” [Interview with James Salter: “I try and keep away from other voices when working.”]
• Index