The Millions Interview
May 17, 2012
Sing You a Book: Josh Ritter Gets Out of His Comfort Zone 5
by Robert Birnbaum
I think songs are really great, kind of, delivery vehicles for a story. They allow you to make your own conclusions. Good songs never give you everything. So I really believe a song is like an envelope. A novel, you can unfold from a song.
May 9, 2012
Anticipate Doom: The Millions Interviews László Krasznahorkai 8
by Paul Morton
I write my texts, my sentences, in my head — outside there is a terrible, almost unbearable noise, inside there is a terrible, almost unbearable, pounding silence.
May 4, 2012
Lost in Translation: The Curious Obscurity of António Lobo Antunes 9
by Oliver Farry
Considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer, António Lobo Antunes’ relative obscurity in the English-speaking world is something of an enigma. Every October his name is among those bandied about for the Nobel Prize, yet mention him to most English speakers, even literary types, and you will be met with terribly blank looks.
May 4, 2012
The Mutability of Truth: An Interview with Patrick Flanery 2
by Malcolm Forbes
Fiction that aspires to be something more than an entertainment commodity must, I think, ultimately be concerned with its own longevity, with the conversation it holds between itself and whatever has preceded it.
April 24, 2012
Paradise Regained: An Interview with Lauren Groff 4
by Edan Lepucki
“I am in love with the gorgeous, elastic, leaping human brain that shuffles and connects disparate pieces of the world into a coherent story.”
April 19, 2012
On Point: David Rees, The Proust of Pencil Sharpeners 10
by Mark O'Connell
I’m surprised to hear that you communists overseas are using your own individual sharpeners in classrooms. It’s a very Ayn-Randian position to take. “I’ve got my pencil sharpener, fuck you if you can’t afford a pencil sharpener! Sharpen your pencil with your bootstrap!”
