Fantastic!

Powells.com has a really interesting interview up with fantasy authors Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini. The only one of these authors I've read is Pullman (and, I admit, I had a few problems with the "His Dark Materials" trilogy), but I very much enjoyed reading this discussion, which features the three of them talking about the craft of fantasy writing, the importance of keeping a strong sense of reality in a fantasy story, and a lot of other fascinating things.