Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes points out that the has a series of shows on the BBC with interviews with American authors. The interviews were recorded over a ten year period and all shows are about 30 minutes long. Here are some of the authors featured.

• Playwright Edward Albee discusses his career.
• Patricia Cornwell discusses her life and her career as a crime writer.
• Don DeLillo author of Libra, Underworld and Cosmopolis.
• E L Doctorow talks about novels including Ragtime and Homer and Langley.
• Dave Eggers author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius talks to Mark Lawson.
• Ellroy talks about Blood’s A Rover, which completes his Underworld USA Trilogy and why he has to shut himself away to write.
• John Irving author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules.
• Stephen King discusses writing horror
• Norman Mailer speaking in the last major broadcast interview of his life.
• Nobel prize winning author Toni Morrison talking to Mark Lawson at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
• Walter Mosley books include a series featuring Private Investigator Easy Rawlins.
• Joyce Carol Oates author of over 50 novels including Blonde and Black Water.
• Marilynne Robinson author of novels including Housekeeping and Gilead.
• Philip Roth speaking as he published his last novel featuring the character Nathan Zuckerman Exit Ghost.
• John Updike speaking on his 70th birthday.
• John Updike speaking in his last recorded interview.
• Gore Vidal discusses writing and politics.
• Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, speaking as he publishes a memoir called A Man Without a Country.
• Playwright August Wilson discusses his attitude to writing.
• Tom Wolfe explains the ideas behind new journalism.
• Tom Wolfe discusses new journalism and a novel depiciting sex amongst college kids; I Am Charlotte Simmons.