The Millions Interview
January 25, 2010
Confessions of a Book Pirate 193
by C. Max Magee
“TRC” is a self-described bibliophile who has “pirated” thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
December 8, 2009
The Millions Interview: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 9
by Anna Clark
There is at least as much intuition as intention in the process. A good translator has to follow that process far more consciously than the writer and yet come as close as possible in the new language to the instinctive “rightness” of the original. The greater the writer, the closer you want to come. That is both the challenge and the joy of it.
October 28, 2009
The Millions Interview: Lynne Tillman 2
by Anne K. Yoder
It has been said that Tillman is a writer who everyone has heard of but who no one has read.
October 5, 2009
The Millions Interview: Tao Lin 3
by Deb Olin Unferth
I’m trying to achieve a level of non sequitur from sentence to sentence and scene to scene that is consistently “not normal.”
August 28, 2009
The Millions Interview: Phillip Lopate 2
by Anne K. Yoder
‘I think that one of the main things that gets me going as a writer is the opportunity to do mischief. And in this particular respect I was analyzing one of the sacred cows of contemporary literature, an icon really. I knew that I was on thin ice a lot and that itself piqued my interest because I could get in a lot of trouble.’
August 25, 2009
The Millions Interview: Dan Chaon 3
by Edan Lepucki
‘To me, I guess, all fiction is fan fiction at a certain level, just as it always has an element of identity theft.’
