CONTENTS

Foreword by Betsy Sussler

Introduction by Francine Prose

Chris Abani and Colm Tóibín

Kathy Acker and Mark Magill

Martin Amis and Patrick McGrath

Roberto Bolaño and Carmen Boullosa

Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Oscar Hijuelos

Maryse Condé and Rebecca Wolff

Dennis Cooper and Benjamin Weissman

Lydia Davis and Francine Prose

Junot Díaz by Edwidge Danticat

Geoff Dyer and Jonathan Lethem

Jennifer Egan and Heidi Julavits

Jeffrey Eugenides and Jonathan Safran Foer

Brian Evenson and Blake Butler

Nuruddin Farah and Kwame Anthony Appiah

Paula Fox and Lynne Tillman

Jonathan Franzen and Donald Antrim

Mary Gaitskill and Matthew Sharpe

Kimiko Hahn and Laurie Sheck

Wilson Harris and Fred D’Aguiar

Bernard-Henri Lévy and Frederic Tuten

Wayne Koestenbaum and Kenneth Goldsmith

Rachel Kushner and Hari Kunzru

Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald

Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino

Ben Marcus and Courtney Eldridge

Steven Millhauser and Jim Shepard

Álvaro Mutis and Francisco Goldman

Sharon Olds and Amy Hempel

Dale Peck and Jim Lewis

Sapphire and Kelvin Christopher James

Lore Segal and Han Ong

Charles Simic and Tomaž Šalamun

Justin Taylor and Ben Mirov

John Edgar Wideman and Caryl Phillips

Tobias Wolff and A.M. Homes