I wrote several posts for the LA Times that are now up on Jacket Copy.
One of the best panels I've ever attended was "Life Stories," featuring the new Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding ("Tinkers") and Rafael Yglesias, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award (not to mention Colson Whitehead and moderator David Kipen).
If you're interested in how to create "voice," see my write-up on "Unstoppable Voices."
And Michael Silverblatt spoke to animal-obsessed "Life of Pi" author Yann Martel about his latest book "Beatrice and Virgil."