Talking Horse. Bernard Malamud on Life and Work.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 220. Frontispiece. Quarter-bound black cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Teresa Bonner. Edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco.

Designed to provide an insight for aspiring writers into the way a master fiction writer thought about and practised his art, this collection includes speeches, interviews, lesson plans, essays, notes and responses on the nature of fiction. By the winner of two National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. "In these pages the Malamudian intellect is so clear, the humanistic sweetness so dear, the literary credo so pure, that it is almost as if the writer's living presence – in all its urgent truthfulness – were magically restored to us." –Cynthia Ozick