Filled with anecdotal examples from actual professional experiences, Creative Interviewing shows how to turn interviews into writing that make scenes and incidents come alive in the reader's mind. Metzler offers step-by-step instructions on how to prepare for and conduct a good interview, how to obtain dramatic anecdotes from sources, how to cope with dynamics of a series of interviews with certain topics.

Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, providing cutting edge discussions of new horizons in inteviews, featuring reflexivity, poetics, and power as new ways of gathering experiential knowledge.

This comprehensive book covers everything an aspiring interviewer needs to know from developing listening and observation skills to conducting interviews by electronic mail and surfing the Internet for story ideas. Creative Interviewing aids readers by using examples and anecdotal accounts of actual professional experiences. Readers are provided with step-by-step instructions on how to prepare for and conduct a strong interview, how to obtain dramatic anecdotes from sources, how to build conversational rapport, how to conduct interviews for broadcast, and how to cope with the dynamics of a series of interviews on a certain topic. For any professional who wishes to improve their interviewing skills.

Creative Interviewing is an extension of Douglas' successful book Investigating Social Research (SAGE 1976). Using new research and a distinct theoretical approach, Douglas takes a fresh look at one of the social researcher's most widely used tools: interviewing. Moving away from more traditional interviewing techniques, he develops a methodology that works with, instead of against, the situational factors involved. Creative Interviewing embraces the social setting and tries to understand how it affects what is being communicated. By becoming more flexible in their approach and response, creative interviewers increase their chances of discovering the truth. The book is written in an absorbing and lively style, with many case studies illustrating Douglas' technique.

Creative Interviewing is an extension of Douglas' successful book Investigating Social Research (SAGE 1976). Using new research and a distinct theoretical approach, Douglas takes a fresh look at one of the social researcher's most widely used tools: interviewing. Moving away from more trad.

On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures, spoke with more than twenty of Chicago's most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago. Among the participants were social-practice artist/developer Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, writer Eve Ewing, Hairy Who artists Art Green and Suellen Rocca, performance/installation artist Shani Crowe, and the city's cultural historian Tim Samuelson. Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon serves as documentation for this event, including edited transcripts of the interviews, biographies of the participants, photos of the event, and images of the artists' work.

In 1969, Andy Warhol launched Interview, an underground film journal that quickly transformed into an iconic symbol of New York City culture and style. The monthly's expansive conversations and irreverent approach opened doors to the intimate circles of society and became a launchpad for creative talents such as André Leon Talley and Fran Lebowitz. With a vibrant mix of rising celebrities including Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio, alongside the legendary presence of Elizabeth Taylor and Steven Spielberg, the magazine became known as "The Crystal Ball of Pop." Now, fifty years since its inception, dive into the extraordinary archives of Interview and rediscover the columns, photography and voices that collectively tell the history of American culture decade by decade.

"The book provides an academic basis for discussion and development of active interviewing methods. . . . The ideas raised. . . will be interesting and valuable to those involved in developing new methodologies in qualitative research and interviewing." --Helen Masey in Social Research Association News The interpretive turn in social science has taken the interview and turned it upside down. Once thought to be the pipeline through which information was transmitted from a passive subject to an omniscient researcher, the new "active interview" considers the interviewer and interviewee as equal partners in constructing meaning around an interview event. This changes everything - from the way of conceiving a sample to the ways in which the interview may be conducted and the results analyzed. In this brief volume, James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium outline the differences between the active interview and the traditional interview and give novice researchers clear guidance on conducting an interview that is the rich product of both parties. Students and professionals who use qualitative methods in the fields of sociology, anthropology, communication, psychology, education, social work, gerontology, and management will find The Active Interview to be a helpful and cogent guidebook.

Dimitri Reyes describes his chapbook Every First & Fifteenth as "an ode to the month-to-month living, bodega store shopping, lotto ticket scratching, bus catching, 99-cent-Wednesday-washing existences of energy..." Situated in Newark, New Jersey's urban landscape of multi-lingual communities, Reyes' narrator, a street corner bard guided by the spirit of Jerry Gant, takes us on a journey of language alternations. Each poem is a negotiation between life on the streets and the joyful and sometimes perilous quest for self-discovery. Traversing the desires of wanting to fit in, to get something, to say something in secret - Reyes' eclectic poetic forms embody the duende, the cri de coeur, the hand-to-mouth hustle of life.