Jeffrey J. Williams has published more than 80 long-form interviews with critics, writers, historians, philosophers, and editors, appearing in Minnesota Review, symplokē, Studies in the Novel, and elsewhere. He has written on the form in “Criticism Live” (Biography, 2018) and “The Rise of the Critical Interview” (New Literary History, 2019), and his book How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, & the University (2014) includes profiles drawing on various interviews.