An LA Times interview with Michael Ondaatje, whose newest book is Divisadero.

A nonlinear narrative style often called "cubist" or "collage" that fragments both point of view and narrative line makes it even harder to place him. Ondaatje has said he prefers cinematic editing — he's written a book on the Oscar-winning film and sound editor Walter Murch — over the orthodox one-thing-after-the-other of the conventional novel.