Interviews Books

A paragraph from the preface:
The twenty-one outstanding artists in "Actors' Lives" were chosen, in collaboration with colleagues at Theatre Communications Group, from a list of four hundred excellent possibilities I compiled by scouring "Theatre World" from 1950 to the present, "Players Guide" and "Who's Who", collections of theatre programs at the Lincoln Center performing arts library, and the files of the Non-Traditional Casting Project. Whittling down the list was agonizing. Interviewing the chosen few was often as exhilarating as seeing their finest work onstage.
This is a surprising and informative book. I found that I knew many of the actors, but not by name. Again I was surprised to find such diverse backgrounds to what I thought were just one time TV or movie actors. Reading about any one actor is well worth the price. Yet you will not be able to pass even those that you never heard of. I found a picture of Peter Gallager [While You Were Sleeping (1995) ASIN: 6304765266] in the book even thought he was not on the list.
The actors covered in this book are:
Frances Conroy, Clayton Corzatte, Olympia Dukakis, Frances Foster, Josie de Gunzman, Anthony Heald, Richard Jenkins, Cherry Jones, James Earl Hones, Randall Duk Kim, Jane Lind, Joan MacIntosh, John Mahoney, Paul McCrane, Isabell Monk, Joe Morton, Howie Seago, Freda Foh Shen, Josef Sommer, Richard Thomas, Jeff Weiss

This is one of the better guides on interview questions that I have seen. The book is very large, and filled with a large variety of questions that an interviewer might ask. The book has general questions that would be asked in any interview, and then it has sections for specific careers. Adams also spends a great deal of time talking about interview preparation, what to do if your nervous in an interview, along with many other ideas for interviewing and its preparation.

One selling point I feel this book has over other similar books, it that after the question, it explains the motivation for the question, and then gives suggestions for solid answers. Going through this book, should leave you well prepared and you should not be caught off guard with questions that can be asked. The book also covers illegal questions that employeers may ask. While sometimes they ask out of ignorance of the law, Adams suggests very tactful ways to handle these answers.


His book also gives you tips and guidelines on follow up letters, interview techniques, and much more. This book really delivers on making sure that you are prepared for a job interview. He gives so many sample questions that you will not be surprised when questions are asked. I feel this book is well worth the time spent reading

Good source of interview questions for hiring people for growing small businesses. Example of question to ask for hiring Sales Rep, Graphics Designer, Multimedia Project Manager, Customer Service Rep, Programmer... etc.

Gifford, Walter S. (Walter Sherman), 1885-1966.
Main Title: Addresses, papers and interviews, by Walter S. Gifford... Compiled for convenient reference by the Information department of the American telephone and telegraph company, July, 1928-
Published/Created: New York? 1928-
Related Names: American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept.
Description: 4 v. diagrs. 24 cm.
Subjects: Telephone--United States.
Telegraph--United States.

Between the 1890s and the mid 1920s, a million people moved into the coal fields of Kentucky,Southern West Virginia, and Southwestern Virginia. Between a quarter and a third of these people, including my grandparents who went to the US Coal and Coke (US Steel)company town of Gary West Virginia, were African Americans.

Given that since the end of the coal boom in the 1920s, the depression, mechanization of the mines after WWII in a way that hit Black miners the hardest, most of these Black people and most of the whites have moved away since the 1940s. However, this is an important part of the heritage of both African Americans and working people. This book provides the history of African Americans in Eastern Kentucky in the old cold camps of Benham and Lynch near Cumberland Kentucky and the national organizations they and their descendants formed to keep their heritage alive.

There is a lot of overall discussion of the problems all miners faced finding unity against the companies fighting for a union, as well as the battles Blacks in the coal fields waged against Jim Crow in the mines and in Kentucky in general. The book also talks about the special bonds of pride that Black miners forged and how that heritage remains strong for those who have moved away and their children.

As someone that was the historian at my 10-year high school class reunion in 1998, I can relate to this book. I saw this book at a library three years ago and ordered it a few times. I have noticed the excitement from people who did come to the reunion and the resistance from those who didn't. I would have liked it if they included something of classmates writing 20-page letters to each other after the reunion. Writing about what they were doing at 16, 17 and 18, past memories, favorite subjects and teachers at school, what the first 3 months after graduation was like, adult life,moving so many times to other states, career changes, being married (if possible) and having 2 to 3 kids and so forth. I did that too, but only wrote one or two-page letters to classmates. Class reunions do change people's lives drastically, myself included. You might end up calling your fellow classmates every day from now on, instead of your usual round of friends. They become your friends for LIFE. So it's beyond just the giddiness or gushiness or the "Oh my God!" reactions of seeing the classmates again after a 10-, 15- or 20-year hiatus. I found after my own class' reunion that they are very busy and hard to catch up. I make the best with writing and E-mailing to them as well as meeting them. I have to understand that they're in their late 30s (33-38) now and not 18 anymore. That they're very committed to their current careers and families and going for higher goals. And they're thinking forward, not looking back too much. So I am pleased that someone wrote this book to explain the impact high school reunions have on people who attended them. The writer does a good job analyzing and describing several reunions she attended. Some reactions are happy, some are bitter and some wished that they didn't attend their reunions at all. To me, going to class reunions is another big step for anyone, to confront their past, to accept your present and to be with your fellow classmates for future times.

In a chapter named Vulnerabilities, Aaron Hass quotes an unnamed Holocaust survivor who asks, "What did the world learn from the Holocaust? What the world learned from the Holocaust is that you can kill six million Jews and no one will care."

This comment like many others in this superb book reverberates to the bone.

Hass answers a need not only of the dwindling community of survivors, but of those who, while neither survivors nor children of survivors, are nevertheless heirs to horrific pain--those Jewish children born in the shadow of the Holocaust and dressed by its memories, engulfed by a pervasive sense of loss and the need to reaffirm Jewish life.

"Survivors are people, not a phenomenon," Hass writes. Their feelings endure. Given my own feelings, I suspect that these are echoed by the feelings of the Jewish people, which is only now, after a generation, beginning to comprehend the enormity of what occurred.

"To refer to the Holocaust as 'monstrous, inhuman event' is to miss the point," Hass concludes. "The Holocaust was imposed by men and women on other human beings. 'It was a time when there were people, not only the Germans, but the others too, what wanted to kill all the Jewish people."

Unfortunately, such sentiments are still published broadly in parts of the world, without note, much less consequence. The press considers them just as unimportant now as it did in the 1930s.

Hass writes, "And so most Holocaust survivors believe that it could happen again." I sadly confess, so do I. Alyssa A. Lappen

In an age when it seems like publishing houses are being snapped up right and left, it's a delight to read interviews with noted publishers who took a chance on writers they loved, regardless of the bottom line (and even made a profit doing so - sometimes). There are nine small press publishers represented here and the interviews are quite detailed and fascinating to read. Those interviewed are Henry Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Godine, Daniel Halpern, Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson, James Laughlin, John Martin and Jonathan Williams. They represent, in no particular order, the publishing houses of City Lights, Cummingham Press, David R. Godine, Copper Canyon Press, Ecco Press, New Directions, Black Sparrow and The Jargon Society, among others.

Readers with experience in scientific field work and students ready to hit the field in their chosen fields will thoroughly appreciate the life/work experiences documented in this book.

Take a look at the table of contents and note how Gladfelter takes the reader from the 'early years' of field research starting with the WW2 generation, to now, a period in which funding, bureaucratic strangleholds, and misplaced prioirities rule the day. The natural world may now be something that unfolds on a screen for the present generation, rather than in front of your face 'out there'--and in your hands. Do geology majors even routinely engage in field geology in their training anymore?

I went straight to the vignettes by geologists and paleontologists and found all to be excellent. For more profiles of geologists I can also highly recommend Pettijohn's MEMOIRS OF AN UNREPENTENT FIELD GEOLOGIST. Readers with an interest in field biology will surely benefit from the history laid out here.
As Agassiz said, "study nature, not books". But since we're no longer a nation of readers or field naturalists, I say: study both.

Note not a single review since the book was published in 2002.

This is a very good book on account of the information and pictures. Alot of people, even die-hard Alanis fans, may not know the info included in the book. There is, still, some information that everyone knew. This takes up about 60% of the book. No doubt the writer did some serious research for this book. Most Pictures are full color, and there are alot of them. I loved this book, personally. I reccomend every Alanis fan gets it