Alice McDermott

On today's Midday, a conversation with the acclaimed author Alice McDermott. She is a National Book Award winner, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of the most beloved writers in American letters. Her new novel, Absolution, is set in Vietnam in the earliest days of the war.

The acclaimed novelist's how-to guide for fiction writers also celebrates the storytelling art form.

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist offers up a how-to-guide for writers that also celebrates the art form.