“We’re narrative-making machines…so the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening shape our actions. Nothing is as dangerous as a story.”
Tag Archives: Novelists
Interview: Michael Kimball, Author of Big Ray
Interview: Benjamin Buchholz, Author of One Hundred and One Nights
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Author Q&A: Michelle Haimoff (These Days Are Ours)
Author Q&A: Dan Chaon (Stay Awake)
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Author Q&A: Julianna Baggott (Pure)
Author Q&A: Nick Antosca (The Obese)
Interview: Alex Shakar, Author of Luminarium
Interview: Ryan Boudinot, Author of Blueprints of the Afterlife
Five years ago, the short story collection The Littlest Hitler hit bookshelves, announcing Ryan Boudinot as one of our funniest and most exciting new writers.
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Pete Hamill
K.M. Soehnlein
“I think what preoccupies me is transition, that zone between one place of relative stasis to another, in particular how we act, or react, when we don’t know what will happen next. Or, put another way: during moments when external circumstances throw us into crisis or flux, what do we do?”
Posted in Author Interviews Also tagged James Warner, K.M. Soehnlein, Robin and Ruby
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Rick Moody
Rick Moody is one of the most celebrated American writers of his generation. His work includes four novels: Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Diviners, as well as three collections of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, Demonology, and Right Livelihoods.
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Joe Quirk
Have you ever asked yourself the deepest philosophical question that drives all introspection, which is: Why am I so neurotic and screwed up? Well, stop blaming your mother. It’s because you have three brains, and they have never once agreed on anything.
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Joe Meno
Yiyun Li
Vestal McIntyre
Robert Stone on Damascus Gate
It’s highly unlikely that if you are reading this you are unaware (or unappreciative) of American novelist Robert Stone. For what it’s worth, I rank Stone among a handful of living great American writers and have hungrily seized opportunities to chat with him.
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Jon Raymond
Mil Máscaras: An Interview with Pulitzer-Winner Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
“I mean, the erasure and marginalization of all people of color…in what we call the canon is well-documented. It really doesn’t come as any surprise.”
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Writers on Music: An Interview with Mysterious Skin Author Scott Heim
"I was just out driving in my car, and five totally different things came on–an old New Order song… a track from the new Portishead record… a Brian Eno Music for Films song… ‘Touch and Go’ by the Cars… and then this campy ’70s disco song called ‘Let’s All Chant.’ I love how this weird mix put me in five different moods within twenty minutes or so."
Posted in Author Interviews, Music Interviews Also tagged Anna-Lynne Williams, Mysterious Skin, Poets, Scott Heim, Writers on Music
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Channelling Sophie: Patricia J. DeLois on Bufflehead Sisters
“There was a time when I wouldn’t have started a novel for fear that I would die before I finished it.”
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G-rock, Arkansas: An Interview with Novelist John Brandon
Dreams with Sharp Teeth: Documenting Harlan Ellison
Matthew Sorrento reviews the new documentary about famed writer Harlan Ellison
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Staring Down the Blind Spots: An Interview with Laura Moriarty
Richard Ford on The Lay of the Land
“You can’t really make the world up–make something more zany than the world is. So, I mean I can’t make anything up that isn’t already superseded by something that already is.”
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Elizabeth Benedict
Writers on Music: Stephen Clarke
“I love the three-minute song. It can tell a story as well as a 300-page novel, plus you have the music element that you don’t get in books.”
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Julia Alvarez
“There is shit everywhere. The language itself gets muddled and used dishonestly. For me the way to clean the windshield is through writing, which goes hand in hand with reading.”
Posted in Author Interviews Also tagged Essayists, Julia Alvarez, Poets, Robert Birnbaum, Vermont Writers
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Thomas Beller
“The whole culture of coaching and prepping and that sort of intense PR stuff, how to talk on TV and the radio, is disgusting as it applies to a real person, to writers.”
Posted in Author Interviews Also tagged Editors, Essayists, How to Be a Man, Robert Birnbaum, Thomas Beller
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