The Millions Interview
February 4, 2013
The Millions Conversation: Mark O’Connell on Viral Celebrity, Internet Weirdness, and the Phenomenon of the Epic Fail 3
by Lydia Kiesling
I do seem to be preoccupied by Internet weirdness. But who isn’t fascinated by that stuff, really? (The answer to that rhetorical question is actually, no doubt, lots of normal people.)
January 31, 2013
Getting Away with Murder: The Millions Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin 9
by Paul Morton
I think to admit despair and to revel in it — as many 20th- and 21st-century writers do — is an easy way out.
January 24, 2013
Topographies of Desire: The Millions Interviews Megan Kaminski 2
by Anne K. Yoder
One of my good friends is a very successful novelist. I was with her when she was approached by another (male) writer who was attempting to deride her work: “Aren’t all your books about the same thing?” My friend asked him what he meant by that. He replied without missing a beat — “Well, aren’t they all about women?”
January 11, 2013
Graffiti and Glory Days: The Millions Interviews Adam Mansbach 5
by Buzz Poole
The “War on Graffiti” presaged and ushered in zero tolerance policy, prejudicial gang databases, quality of life offenses, epic incarceration — the whole way a generation has experienced law enforcement and personal freedom.
November 8, 2012
The History of Humans is the History of Technology: The Millions Interviews Robin Sloan 9
by Hope Mills
For me, the iPhone had become a toxic compulsion. It had completed its invasion and occupation of my interstitial time — all those minutes riding the train, waiting in line, that used to be such fertile territory for daydreaming and storymaking.
November 6, 2012
Addicted to Weird: An Interview with Jon Ronson 2
by Janet Potter
Everybody in the book feels in some way as if they’re lost at sea, and are grasping for something to get them through. And the thing that they often grasp for is something that’s kind of irrational, makes no sense, is ridiculous. And it becomes almost a celebration of irrationality as a human character trait to be cherished.