The Millions Interview
January 31, 2012
Lethal Language: Ben Marcus Urges Writers to March on the Enemy 6
by Adam Boretz
Accessibility is such a strange, sad measure of the writing I love. Dora the Explorer is accessible. The Unconsoled is not.
January 27, 2012
The Millions Interview: Bradford Morrow 2
by Edie Meidav
While evil is obviously universal, various forms of evil portrayed in The Uninnocent do seem to me to be distinctly American. An unstable idealism that sometimes erupts into irrevocable acts of violence or crime does reside in the hearts of many of these characters.
November 15, 2011
The Magician’s Forgotten Brother 1
by Christopher Bram
“I wanted to honor the memory of this gay man who was silenced in so many different ways — by his chronic stutter, by his outré sexuality, by the labor camp, and finally by his brother, Vladimir Nabokov, who failed to mention Sergey’s existence until the third version of Speak, Memory.”
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 7
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.”
