The Millions Interview
March 23, 2010
The Millions Interview: Péter Esterházy 1
by Garth Risk Hallberg
“My father now appears to me like the world: it’s a pretty bad place, but it is very good, it is magical to be alive.”
February 24, 2010
The Millions Interview: John Banville 8
by Anne K. Yoder
“I just want to recreate the sense of what life feels like, what it tastes like, what it smells like. That’s what art should do. I feel it should be absolutely gloriously useless.”
February 11, 2010
The Millions Interview: David Shields (Part Two) 5
by Sonya Chung
“Crucial for me in writing this book was my vexed sense of the way in which great nonfiction is badly boxed in by straightahead memoir, on the one hand, and straightahead fiction, on the other.”
February 10, 2010
The Millions Interview: David Shields (Part One) 17
by Sonya Chung
“I’m trying to renew the novel form, not end it. A relationship is like a shark; if it doesn’t keep moving, it dies. What we have here is a dead shark. Can we not shock it awake?”
January 25, 2010
Confessions of a Book Pirate 235
by C. Max Magee
“TRC” is a self-described bibliophile who has “pirated” thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
December 8, 2009
The Millions Interview: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 11
by Anna Clark
There is at least as much intuition as intention in the process. A good translator has to follow that process far more consciously than the writer and yet come as close as possible in the new language to the instinctive “rightness” of the original. The greater the writer, the closer you want to come. That is both the challenge and the joy of it.
