The Millions Interview
November 7, 2011
The Millions Interview: Alan Hollinghurst Answers his Critics 5
by Paul Morton
“I was so hoping that we could get beyond the whole gay writer thing now, which I feel stuck in.”
November 3, 2011
Robert Birnbaum in Conversation with Anne Enright 1
by Robert Birnbaum
“You have to sink in order to write a book. I don’t mean in a depressive sort of way. You have to diffuse as much as anything else. Just in those early days — to lose control of it and to be helpless and not know what you are doing. And then the focus comes sentence by sentence.”
October 31, 2011
A Love of Books: An Independent Bookseller is Born 8
by Edan Lepucki
“All along I said I wanted a community-focused bookstore, and that has really come to fruition so much sooner than I’d expected. I think the bonds with the community are going to just get stronger the longer we’re here.”
October 20, 2011
Robert Birnbaum in Conversation with John Sayles 7
by Robert Birnbaum
“For a filmmaker to have made 17 movies in 35 years is pretty good. And most of them — we don’t always have enough money to do them justice, but most of them, there was no fighting a rear guard action against a studio to change things or tell you who to cast or whatever, so I have been really lucky.”
October 4, 2011
“Horrible things happen everywhere”: The Millions Interview with Craig Thompson 5
by Paul Morton
“There’s a very offensive Islamophobia that happens in the media. But then there’s also this overly-PC, liberal reaction to tiptoe around a lot of subjects which I think is its own form of insult.”
September 26, 2011
The Millions Interview: Nikolai Grozni on Music, Misfits, and Mythology 1
by Lauren Elkin
“I love the first person, in writing, in music, and in life. All great modern novels, as far as I am concerned, are in the first person.”