The Millions Interview
August 26, 2010
The Millions Interview: Kate Zambreno 1
by Anne K. Yoder
“I am saying that amidst all of this banality there’s something really dangerous in terms of how we swallow horrible things happening because they make us uncomfortable and ignore all the fucked-up-ness and like let’s talk about The Bachelor as opposed to Haiti and as a society we’re still totally totally repressed…”
August 5, 2010
Plot Horses and Narrative Helmets: A Morning with David Mitchell 3
by Emily Pullen
With building blocks, some children build simple walls and steps, and others build castles with moats and turrets using the exact same materials. Mitchell must have been one of the latter — he recently described his books as “Lego-novels,” made up of component pieces.
July 12, 2010
Novelist-of-the-Future: A Profile of Jennifer Egan 4
by Edan Lepucki
As time has gone on, I have become interested in telling stories that are more complicated and less streamlined, and so I’m looking for more ways to do that as efficiently and powerfully as I can.
July 8, 2010
The Millions Interview: Gene Luen Yang 3
by Paul Morton
“I just feel we know when we see someone with buckteeth and super slanted eyes that that’s supposed to be outdated. Right? But then a lot of these sorts of things keep popping up in our culture.”
May 31, 2010
Melissa Klug and the Permanence Matters Initiative 12
by Emily St. John Mandel
“I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently a trend toward lesser quality print versions of books will then become a landslide.”
May 27, 2010
The Millions Interview: Roxana Saberi 1
by Paul Morton
“After I recanted my false confession, my main interrogator essentially told me he knew I was not a spy.”
