Craft Corner: The Millions Interviews Sarah Moss

- | 4
I think for me it’s maybe about inhabiting the character’s body. Once I can feel her skin and push her hair behind her ears, feel her shoes on her feet, I can start.
- | 4

Only the Lonely: The Millions Interviews Teddy Wayne

-
No one wants to admit that they’re a successful writer, filmmaker, painter, or musician in large part because they had a financially stable background. Talent and hard work certainly have something to do with where you end up, but zip code is still destiny.
-

Books Are a Place to Put Your Feelings: The Millions Interviews Jami Attenberg

-
This book was about understanding what men like that leave behind, and how it impacts families and communities.
-

She Cared Enough to Take It As Far as She Could: The Millions Interviews Rob Garver

- | 1
Pauline was really not a film critic; she was a writer whose subject was the movies. She gave all of herself to it—her knowledge, experience, and talent.
- | 1

Freedom in Telling the Truth: The Millions Interviews Adrienne Brodeur

-
I used to play the story for laughs. But when I started a family of my own and as my children grew, I realized I had to reexamine the way I was brought up.
-

No Such Thing as “Not Racist”: The Millions Interviews Ibram X. Kendi

- | 2
The term “not racist” has primarily been a defensive term, a term of denial, and that’s really all its meaning has ever been.
- | 2

You and I Have Peril in Common: The Millions Interviews Saeed Jones

-
I hope this book helps people coming into themselves feel less alone—and less crazed by the way America lies to young people about what they experience.
-

The Private Life of Debbie Harry

- | 2
Sometimes it was almost deliciously scary [to] be fighting against these odds. The reward of having a creative enterprise be accepted is kind of amazing.
- | 2

The Humanity of Being Freakish: The Millions Interviews Kevin Wilson

-
The goal is that my sons, Griff and Patch, eventually don’t need me anymore. But I can’t reconcile that yet. So, again, I write about that anxiety.
-

In Witchcraft There Are No Spectators: The Millions Interviews Amanda Yates Garcia

-
I don’t believe we should be grateful for adversity. But we can be grateful to ourselves for the strength we find to make it out of the underworld alive.
-

I’d Rather You Decide: The Millions Interviews Susan Choi

-
Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi has a new novel out, Trust Exercise—and she’s not telling you anything about it.
-

A Truth Accuracy Could Never Achieve: The Millions Interviews M. Randal O’Wain

-
This trauma told me stories of who I was in relation to home and the men who raised me. These memories were so horribly fucking bright I couldn’t turn away.
-

Fixing the Femme Fatale: The Millions Interviews Joyce Carol Oates

A new collection of female noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates looks to recast a predominantly male genre.

Small Moments of Joy: The Millions Interviews Edwidge Danticat

-
The MacArthur Fellow talks about immigration and the pull Haiti exerts on her writing.
-

Readers Don’t Need to Be Babied: A Conversation on Translating Japanese Literature

I wanted to explain a little less in many places. I feel like readers don't usually need to be babied as much as we think they do.

All Books Are Maybe Books: The Millions Interviews Tim O’Brien

-
My youngest kid saw me writing and he said, "What is it?" That's when he suggested the title. Call it what it is. Call it a maybe book.
-

I’m Very Bad at Being Secular: The Millions Interviews Nathan Englander

-
I feel like my wife’s afraid she’s going to come through the door and I’ll be koshering the kitchen or I’ll turn Hasidic while she’s out picking up our kid.
-

I Hope My Grandchildren Will Know Me by This Book: The Millions Interviews Patricia Henley

-
Patricia Henley discusses her novel Hummingbird House, feeling erased when it went out of print, and her legacy with its forthcoming rerelease.
-