I had never heard of this series and spotted it on the library shelf. Glad I picked it up. It's a shorter read as the content is about 10 interviews (probably some partial and edited) over the last 40 years. As such, you kind of go sequentially through the author's life and works as they get interviewed by media.

The book has a good flow, and it's as if you are listening in on the interview which today might be a podcast. I read this in a couple hours, it's 164 pages and was a paperback.

As such, there are milestones in the authors life that come out in the interviews. For Joan, it's media runs on some of her book launches, the death of her daughter and husband, moving from California to NYC, and such. It's interesting to hear how she gets inspired and frustrated by writing. She was a legend.