On with the Ees: Conversational Reading by Scott Esposito is recommended reading. I checked out the Ben Yagoda book from the library that Scott recommended a few days ago. The concept was good, but the interviewees were relentlessly down-the-middle-of-the-road. I can take Dave Barry and Elmore Leonard, but Camille Paglia? Billy Collins? Cynthia Ozick? John Updike? He could have tried to interview Philip Lopate or Gil Sorrentino or Ron Padgett. It's not as though the writers he interviewed are all bad, but why Billy Collins? Why, why, why, why, why!!! Is this the prose-writer's idea of a poet? If so, we are doomed.