From 1976-1980, the Saranac Writers Conference was held at Saranac Lake, hosted by Fiction International and St. Lawrence University. A number of major writers were among the participants at the Saranac Writers Conference, including Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Godwin, Anne Beattie, Jayne Anne Phillips, Annie Dillard, E.L. Doctorow, and Carolyn Forche. All of the papers, files, photographs, and letters from the Saranac conferences went into storage and have not seen the light of day since--until now. The Lost Saranac Interviews consists of the Saranac ephemera, photographs, and interviews that are left from that time. Still relevant today, the issues discussed by writers at Saranac are still very much the same issues writers discuss today. Anyone who writes or enjoys literature would jump at the chance to travel back in time and commune with some of the greatest writer's of our time--and now here's that chance.