Five accomplished fiction writers discuss their work and the craft of writing. Novelist John lrving taIks about the chaIIenges of bringing his stories to the big screen and the differences between screenwriting and noveI writing. Susan Sontag comments on how events in her life infIuenced her noveI "In America." IsraeIi author Amos Oz discusses politics, love and humor amid the chaos of the PaIestinian conflict. John Updike refIects on the early part of his career. And in a two-part interview Philip Roth discusses his accIaimed noveI "The PIot Against America" and the writing process.