Most books containing author question-and-answer transcripts are profoundly uninteresting. They ask inane questions that insult the reader and writer, like, “Have you overcome obstacles in life similar to those of [name of protagonist]?” Novelists in the New Millennium is a collection of real author interviews in question/answer format. It’s not at all condescending, and it provides fascinating insights into the creative processes of luminaries like Arundhati Roy and Kazuo Ishiguro.
