All Interviews

• 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

• Possessed, or Eavesdropping

  Eden Lepucki on Writing

  Jordan G. TeicherAug 12, 2014
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  From Whodunits to Why Bother? Noir at MoMA

  Bruce Bennett and Dave Kehr talk about Harry Cohn, Columbia Pictures, and crime films.

  Bruce BennettAug 12, 2014

• "Marry Someone who Makes You Laugh"

  Point of view will always be there consciously or unconsciously — but if it’s there unconsciously, it gets feral and doesn’t serve your work.

  Claire CameronAug 11, 2014
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  Strong, Weird, Smart Women of Noir: Q&A with Elizabeth Little

  Deborah Shapiro interviews Elizabeth Little about her new novel and genre fiction as a support group.

  Deborah ShapiroAug 8, 2014

• All is Chaos

  Diego Báez Interviews Yelena Akhtiorskaya

  Diego BáezAug 7, 2014
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  John Michael McDonagh and Brendan Gleeson on "Calvary"

  "Calvary", directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson, touches on questions of faith, forgiveness, and our responses to evil acts.

  Aug 5, 2014
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  Don Franzen Talks with Lisa Bloom

  Don Franzen talks to Lisa Bloom about Trayvon Martin.

  Don FranzenAug 4, 2014

  • Law

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  A World in Details: An Interview with Josh Weil

  The best novels, I think, make you feel as if you’ve lived in another skin, or in another place, or another time — another world — by the time you’re done.

  Alex EspinozaAug 2, 2014
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  Puppet Shows in a Swimming Pool: Surrealism, Punk, Poetry, and Contemporary Folklore According to Iceland’s Sjón

  New from "Around the World"

  Alex BaumhardtJul 30, 2014
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  Four Questions for Lily King

  Margaret Mead wrote in a memoir that she and Bateson talked for 36 hours straight about their work when they met, but Mead did not go into detail about what they said. Lily King wanted to write a scene like that for her characters, so she had to do a ton of research and then make it all up.

  Michelle HunevenJul 29, 2014