This text offers readers comprehensive and practical insight into the many factors that contribute to successful interviews. This book invites readers on a journey through the landscape of interview research, providing the hows and whys of research interviewing, and outlines paths for students to follow on the way to research goals. Thoroughly updated to account for all recent developments in qualitative interviewing, the edition expands its focus on the practical, epistemological, and ethical issues involved in interviewing, while maintaining the fluid and logical structure it has become known for throughout the text.