The Millions Interview
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.’
June 25, 2009
The Millions Interview: Matthew Vollmer and Nic Brown (Part II) 0
by Edan Lepucki
Future Missionaries of America by Matthew Vollmer and Floodmarkers by Nic Brown are short story collections from debut writers with enormous gifts. Their work is beautiful, funny, and delightfully weird. Matthew and Nic were my classmates at Iowa, where they proved to be not only talented writers, but also sharp and passionate readers. Since they’re [...]
June 24, 2009
The Millions Interview: Matthew Vollmer and Nic Brown (Part I) 8
by Edan Lepucki
Future Missionaries of America by Matthew Vollmer and Floodmarkers by Nic Brown are short story collections from debut writers with enormous gifts. Their work is beautiful, funny, and delightfully weird. Matthew and Nic were my classmates at Iowa, where they proved to be not only talented writers, but also sharp and passionate readers. Since they’re [...]
May 12, 2009
The Millions Interview: Joe Meno 1
by Edan Lepucki
Joe Meno’s most recent novel, The Great Perhaps, is a beautiful and entertaining tragicomedy about the Casper family: scientists Jonathan and Madeline, their complicated teenage daughters, Amelia and Thisbe, and Jonathan’s father, Henry, who is willing himself to disappear, speaking fewer and fewer words each day. Meno is the author of four other [...]
