The Millions Interview
May 25, 2010
The Millions Interview: Tom McAllister 2
by Patrick Brown
McAllister became known as “the ultimate Philly guy.” No wonder, considering he grew up in a row house, attended La Salle University, teaches at Temple, and even worked in a cheesesteak shop. But a person cannot be so reduced, as he explores in his new memoir.
May 11, 2010
A Novel for You and Me: A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff 10
by Edan Lepucki
Rakoff’s novel poses a central question: what do you hold onto from your idealistic youth, and what do you shed?
May 5, 2010
Reality Squared: A Profile of Deborah Eisenberg 5
by Garth Risk Hallberg
“People do talk about things, of course. They don’t just talk about nail polish. You can go for days thinking all anybody cares about anymore is square footage, and then have three extraordinary conversations in the grocery store.”
April 29, 2010
The Millions Interview: Sonya Chung 1
by Edan Lepucki
“The work is a contained world for me, unto itself, it has its own internal energy and design; and when I sit down to work I’m like the astronaut landing on Planet Novel.”
March 30, 2010
The Millions Interview: Kati Marton 5
by Paul Morton
“We had to learn Russian. We had to learn marching songs. In my case, I had to watch the Hungarian Secret Police drag my parents away. So kids grow up really fast in that kind of a system. At age six I already knew what I could say outside our apartment, and what I couldn’t. Sometimes I made mistakes.”
March 25, 2010
The Millions Interview: Jonathan Dee 3
by Anne K. Yoder
“Ninety-nine percent of people, and probably a higher percentage of readers, have it in, in general, for characters like this, and feel when they read about people like this, ‘Oh, I know how I feel about them, I know what they’re like.’ So, I was very much interested in making them hard to pass judgment on, at least until the book was shut, and possibly past that.”
