Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 4, 2008.

Annie Proulx's books include the novels The Shipping News and That Old Ace in the Hole; and the story collections Close Range: Wyoming Stories; and its sequel, Bad Dirt. Through Proulx's knowledge of the history of Wyoming and the West, her interest in landscape and place, and her sympathy for the sheer will it takes to survive, we see the seared heart of the rugged people who live in our least populated state. Her novel The Shipping News and her short story "Brokeback Mountain" have both been adapted into celebrated feature films. The Los Angeles Times says Proulx, "has a wry sense of humor rather like Mark Twain's."

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Length: 1:35:22; Size: 33 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 16, 2008.

Mike Davis was born in Fontana, California, 60 miles east of Los Angeles in 1946, and is a veteran of 1960's civil rights and anti-war movements. From his first book, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), about unionism in the United States, to his most recent, Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007), Davis' fearless writing in 18 books shines a fresh light on economic, social, environmental, and political injustice. Some of his other books include City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Magical Urbanism, Planet of Slums, Dead Cities, In Praise of Barbarians, and No One is Illegal. He is currently working on a book about climate change, water, and power in the U.S. West and northern Mexico. A former meat cutter and long-distance truck driver, Davis has been a fellow at the Getty Institute and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine.

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Length: 0:57:39; Size: 13.8 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 14, 2007.

Richard Powers has said, "fiction can travel anywhere, and probably should." He is the author of nine novels that explore connections among disparate disciplines such as photography, artificial intelligence, music composition, molecular biology, game theory, and American business. His recent novel, The Echo Maker, which won the 2006 National Book Award, is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation. His other novels include Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Galatea 2.2, Gain, Plowing the Dark, and The Time of Our Singing. He has been called one of the greatest American novelists of his generation.

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Length: 1:13:27; Size: 16.8 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 12, 2000.

Ana Castillo is a novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, whose books include Peel My Love Like an Onion; Loverboys; So Far from God; and Massacre of the Dreamers.

Born in Chicago of Mexican ancestry, Ms. Castillo has been honored with an NEA fellowship, an American Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Prize. Ms. Castillo, whose work has explored the issues of war, ecology, oppression, and exploitation, is current working on a novel about women working in sweatshop conditions along the Mexican border.

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Length: 1:21:45; Size: 20.5 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 25, 2001.

John Barth's novels include Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera; The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor; Tidewater Tales; Sabbatical: A Romance; Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus; and The Sot-Weed Factor. His two short story collections are On with the Story and Lost in the Funhouse.

Mr. Barth has written, "We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live in them. Narrative equals language equals life: To cease to narrate…is to die." Mr. Barth, who is professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.

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Length: 1:14:34; Size: 17.9 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 11, 2001.

Denise Chavez is a novelist, playwright, actress, director, and teacher. A native of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Ms. Chavez still lives in the house where she was raised. A recipient of the 1995 Governor's Award in Literature, her books include Face of an Angel and The Last of the Menu Girls. During her residency, Ms. Chavez worked on a novel entitled The King and Queen of Comezon that addresses the complex issues of the Mexican-American border.

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Length: 1:05:04; Size: 16.8 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 27, 2002.

Jim Harrison has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; After Ikkyu; The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Natural World: A Bestiary; Returning to Earth; and Locations. He has worked as a screenwriter, book reviewer, literary critic, food columnist, sportswriter, and conservationist.

Other works include a collection of novellas, The Summer He Didn't Die, and Legends of the Fall, which was made into a celebrated film. Mr. Harrison has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was born in northern Michigan in 1937 and continued to reside there until recently. He and his wife now divide their time between Montana and Arizona.

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Length: 1:17:53; Size: 21.9 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 25, 2007.

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, of which the Washington Post said, “Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger.” He is also the author of You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and How We Are Hungry. In 1998, he founded McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house now located in San Francisco.

Vendela Vida is the author of Girls on the Verge, a journalistic study of female initiation rituals. She is also the author of a novel, And Now You Can Go, which begins with its narrator, 21 year old Ellis, being forced at gunpoint to sit and talk with a man in a New York City park as he contemplates a murder/suicide. She is the coeditor of the Believer magazine and the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.

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Length: 1:57:20; Size: 80.59 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 11, 2007.

Denis Johnson's story "Homeless and High" begins, "I arrived penniless in Berkeley in February of 1973, at night, dropped off on Telegraph Avenue by a woman driving around in her commune's Volvo." He is the author of the celebrated collection of stories Jesus' Son, which was made into a feature film by the same name in 1999. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's. His recent novel, Angel, tells the story of a fleeing housewife toting two kids and an ex-Navy, ex-con who all meet on a Greyhound bus.

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Length: 1:20:16; Size: 55.1 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 17, 2007.

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five collections of short stories, All Around Atlantis, The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, and the most recent, Twilight of the Super Heroes: Stories. Eisenberg is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2003, a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

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Length: 1:17:03; Size: 35.3 MB