"The interview subjects in this collection include Michael Korda, the former editor in chief at Simon and Schuster and the author of "The Charmed Life"; Robert Roper, author of "Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita"; the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Kaplan (the biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman); Professor Jeffrey Jackson, author of "Paris Under Water" and "Making Jazz French"; Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, author of "E. E. Cummings: A Biography"; James Dempsey, author of "The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer"; and Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD and the author of "LSD: My Problem Child" ... [This collection] also includes essays on Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, and the previously unknown family history of Marion Morehouse, the wife of E. E. Cummings and the first 'supermodel.'" --Booklife.