The Writer's Complete Guide to Conducting Interviews

✍ Scribed by Michael Schumacher

• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offers practical advice on preparing for, arranging, and conducting interviews, shows how to use an interviewee's words, and discusses legal and ethical aspects.

Michael Schumacher has interviewed and written profiles on Ray­mond Carver (Carver's last interview, out of which developed a warm friendship), Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Mike Royko, Bob Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. His work has ap­peared in Playboy, Writer's Digest, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, local newspapers and little/literary magazines.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
About the Author
Contents
1 The Interview and Its Uses
2 Finding the Right Voice
3 Research and Preparation
4 How to Line Up Interviews
5 Creative Interviewing
6 Using Your Interviewee's Words
7 Other Ways to Conduct and Use Interviews
8 Legalities and Ethics
Appendix
Index

✦ Subjects

Interviewing,Writing Research,Journalism