Why the hell didn't anyone tell me about this site. Every last one of you who knew this but didn't tell me deserves to rot in hell. Lucky for you no such place exists. A heartfelt thanks to Woods Lot's link to this, A Reader's Progress I found it.

Here is a description of the site from well, the site:

Identity Theory is home to many different voices. From a Vietnam veteran to a male prostitute to a television producer, all kinds of people have found their way to publication on Identity Theory. Some of the authors are first-time writers; others, like Janet Buck, are widely published. And some, like David Sterry, have written books for major publishing houses.

Robert Birnbaum has been providing in-depth interviews with successful authors ever since the site launched -- from people's historian Howard Zinn to L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy to Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens to Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo to actor Ethan Hawke.

I'm like a kid in a candy store, well in my case like a kid in a bookstore. I read Robert Birnbaum's interview with one of my favorite authors, Jim Crace, if you haven't read "Being Dead" you're missing one of the best stories written in the past ten years. Here is the link to the interview Author of Being Dead (Jim Crace) talks with Robert Birnbaum

Of course with Steve Himmers recent recommendations of "Lamb" by Bernard MacLaverty, and "Among the Missing" by Dan Chaon, "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates", and Jeremy's suggestion of "Aphorisms" edited by John Gross my budget for new books is well busted, broken, kaput, yep it's gone. I would include Mat for George Saunders, but good fortune was smiling on me, my son Tim had a copy he had never told me about until he saw Mat's comments and said oh yes, George Saunders, I have "CivilWarLand in bad decline".

Oh yes, you're are all welcome.