All Interviews

• Three Questions for Amy Bloom

  For a therapist, the training is to keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, which is excellent training for a novelist as well.

  David BreithauptSep 28, 2014
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  Authors Guild vs. Google: Fair Use or Foul Play?

  Authors Guild vs. Google: There are many factors, including whether it is consonant with international law

  Mark RobertsonSep 26, 2014
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  PODCAST #69: Jonathan Lethem

  An interview with author Jonathan Lethem.

  Colin MarshallSep 25, 2014
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  On Culpability and Carrying the Gun: An Interview with Brian Turner

  Brian Turner is one of the few writers about the war to rise above the polemical din.

  Matt GallagherSep 20, 2014
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  This Shirt Won’t Change Your Life: An Interview with Sheila Heti

  Women in Clothes: Women talking to women about women’s relations to women’s clothing.

  Claire LuchetteSep 18, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  PODCAST #68: Sean Wilsey

  Interview with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It All. His latest volume of essays is called More Curious.

  Colin MarshallSep 17, 2014

• Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki

  Ruth Ozeki: "The novel, with its two narrators Ruth and Nao, is a kind of overt performance of these Buddhist propositions of interbeing and time being."

  David Palumbo-LiuSep 16, 2014

• A Daughter’s Corrido: Maria Venegas Talks “Bulletproof Vest”

  “I’M CERTAIN that it’s only a matter of time before past catches up with him, before he turns up dead …"

  Claire LuchetteAug 29, 2014

  • Memoir & Essay

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  PODCAST #67: Edan Lepucki

  Edan Lepucki is a staff writer at The Millions and author of California, a domestic relationship novel set in mid-21st century post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.

  Colin MarshallAug 29, 2014

• The Condition of Possibility

  An Interview with Francisco Goldman

  Sarah WangAug 28, 2014

• Poe’s Paradoxes

  Did Rufus Griswold kill Edgar Allan Poe?

  Art TaylorAug 26, 2014

• An Almost Unheard Low Note

  An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Lisa L. MooreAug 24, 2014

  • Gender & Sexuality

• Three Questions for Désirée Zamorano Regarding Her New Novel

  Désirée Zamorano moves from the mystery genre to a realist novel about upwardly mobile, middle-class Latinas in Southern California.

  Daniel A. OlivasAug 21, 2014
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  Unreasonable Standards: An Interview with Roxane Gay

  "We tend to hold feminism and feminists to unreasonable standards."

  Brooke ObieAug 20, 2014

• Reality Is Mayhem

  Marc Pastor is a crime novelist by night, a forensic detective and police sketch artist by day.

  Daniel LevineAug 15, 2014

• Eating off the Grid

  Vanessa Hua talks to Ava Chin about food, foraging, and memoir.

  Vanessa HuaAug 13, 2014