Presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and non-fiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anthony Bourdain.