Articles by Anne K. Yoder
March 25, 2010
The Millions Interview: Jonathan Dee 5
“Ninety-nine percent of people, and probably a higher percentage of readers, have it in, in general, for characters like this, and feel when they read about people like this, ‘Oh, I know how I feel about them, I know what they’re like.’ So, I was very much interested in making them hard to pass judgment on, at least until the book was shut, and possibly past that.”
March 19, 2010
Spring Is for Reading 0
It’s time again for spring cleaning, as well as the more enjoyable spring reading. Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading is gearing up for Your Face This Spring, which will read the entire 1200 pages of Javier Marías‘s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy. And Big Other is orchestrating a group read of Flann O’Brien‘s At Swim-Two-Birds. After you finish [...]
February 24, 2010
Michael Silverblatt Interviewed 0
Bomb turns the tables on Michael Silverblatt, the host of KCRW’s Bookworm–this time he’s the one answering questions.
February 24, 2010
The Millions Interview: John Banville 8
“I just want to recreate the sense of what life feels like, what it tastes like, what it smells like. That’s what art should do. I feel it should be absolutely gloriously useless.”
February 4, 2010
On Rereading J.D. Salinger 1
It occurs to me that I’m judging Holden more like an old friend than a character in a novel. This is perhaps the largest compliment I can pay him, and Salinger, too.
February 1, 2010
‘The woman writes as if the Devil was in her…’ 11
The anxiety of maintaining the distance and time to write within a romantic relationship continues to plague women (and men alike).
