Tag Archives: Matt Borondy

An Off-Kilter Liveliness: 12 Questions with David Leavitt

By Matt Borondy | Published: February 11, 2008
David Leavitt

Leavitt’s latest novel is The Indian Clerk, a work of historical fiction about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan that, according to The New Yorker, demonstrates “how the most meaningful relationships can defy both logic and imagination.”

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Chasing Cool with Noah Kerner

By Matt Borondy | Published: May 28, 2007

"Simply chasing cool is really a bad idea; inspired by cool is a great idea…Don’t do it because you research it, do it because you breathe it,"

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Hillary Carlip

By Matt Borondy | Published: January 8, 2007
Hillary Carlip covered in books

“Just like when I decided to start an all-girl, all ex-con band, or learn how to eat fire, it just felt like it was time to write my memoir.”

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Toni Schlesinger

By Matt Borondy | Published: June 26, 2006
toni schlesinger

“I love the continuous action of New York. The same way I love being in a dark theater space, a film, a casino, a newsroom. Nothing stops, nothing ends, nothing dies. I love the celebration of artificial life that is implicit in cities, all human-made.”

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Mia Fontaine

By Matt Borondy | Published: June 21, 2006
Mia Fontaine

When you’re struggling, it’s often hard to see past wherever you’re at; feeling happy or "normal" seems like such an impossibility, there’s no incentive to change.

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Craig Davidson

By Matt Borondy | Published: April 27, 2006

“I think I’d take a crack at Dr. Phil, if I ever got the chance.”

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Katy Lederer

By Matt Borondy | Published: February 12, 2005

“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”

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Jennifer Niven

By Matt Borondy | Published: January 19, 2004
Author Jennifer Niven

“As horrified as we are by disaster, I think we like to imagine what we would do in an avalanche on Mount Everest, a collapsed coal mine, a crashing plane, a sinking ship. Would we be heroic? Would we lose our nerve? Would the best or the worst in us surface? How would we react?”

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Susannah Breslin

By Matt Borondy | Published: November 4, 2003
Susannah Breslin

“You know how some people like "feel-good" movies? I like "feel-bad" movies. Same is true for books.”

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Elise Blackwell

By Matt Borondy | Published: May 18, 2003
Elise Blackwell

“One of the ideas I explore in Hunger, though, is that we don’t know who will turn out to be brave under extreme pressure. Timid and annoying people can act with grace, strength, and bravery, while people noted for their courage can prove themselves cowards.”

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Matthew Derby

By Matt Borondy | Published: May 9, 2003
Matthew Derby

“my work would never have been published anywhere ten years ago (although maybe that would have been a good thing), but it found a readership in a group of similarly disgruntled, displaced readers who wanted something else.”

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