All Interviews

• The Matter With Kansas: Ben Lerner Talks to Cyrus Console

  Your book contains what is to my mind the finest suite of acrostics ever written in English (RAINBOW).

  Ben LernerFeb 26, 2012
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  Assume The Position: An Interview with Edmund White

  What was fun for me was to use the trajectory of my own life, but to assign it to someone who was quite unlike myself.

  Michael WolfeFeb 20, 2012
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  It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg

  A lot of filmmaking in America is nostalgia filmmaking, trying to recapture what you loved as a kid. I'm not a nostalgia freak.

  Jonathan PennerJan 28, 2012
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  Cattle Calls and Contract Players: An Interview with Clint Eastwood

  I was a contract player at Universal and I didn’t know whether I was good at it or not.

  Paul NelsonJan 9, 2012
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  Pacific Overture: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  I think that science fiction is my realist fiction about life in southern California.

  Istvan Csicsery-RonayJan 9, 2012
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  Antielitism Left and Right: An Interview with Catherine Liu

  "Elitist" is used as an all-purpose insult by both the culturally reactionary and the culturally progressive.

  Jan 8, 2012
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  Muddy Waters and Mozart: Remembering Townes Van Zandt

  Like his hero Hank Williams, Townes was a mean drunk, but with a selfless, compassionate streak.

  Aretha SillsJan 1, 2012

• Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

  Jan 1, 2012
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  PODCAST: Philosophical Improvisations

  Part philosophy, part self-help, part experiment in nonfiction, part a book-length interview.

  Dec 20, 2011
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  It's Good To Be Pragmatic: An Interview with Helen DeWitt

  Forget about writing. There’s a debate, a conflict, a dilemma, that everyone faces.

  Lee KonstantinouNov 21, 2011

• Patience and Virtue: An Interview with Lydia Davis

  I like the book to exist in a sort of middle space, kind of floating.

  Nov 8, 2011

• The Writer's Jukebox: An Interview with Chuck Eddy

  I get mad at people who say I’m a contrarian. That’s honestly not where I come from.

  Sep 29, 2011

• Old War Stories: An Interview with Geoff Dyer

  "I've had such an unusual writing life."

  Aug 17, 2011
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  Delight and Delectation: An Interview with Anne Germanacos

  Two risks I court are keeping the fourth wall permeable and sticking closely to recognizable, lived stories.

  Clarissa RomanoJul 27, 2011
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  Ball of Fire: An Interview with Jimmy McDonough

  It’s hard to talk about this stuff without it sounding like “The Steam From My Blowhole, Part 47.”

  Jonathan PennerJun 24, 2011
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  AUDIO ARCHIVE

  Jun 20, 2011