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J. G. Ballard discusses Empire of the Sun (and other stuff) in a 1984 interview
Tagged: Fiction, Film, Interview, J.G. Ballard
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Who are the great American writers Nabokov most admired?
From a 1966 interview between Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel, Jr., originally published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature and reprinted in Strong Opinions. Tagged: American...
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What did Nabokov do to prepare himself for the ordeals of life?
From a slim profile based on Nabokov published in The New York Times Book Review in 1972. You can read the whole thing here—however, the NYTBR’s edit is different from the text above, which comes from...
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William Gaddis: “The problem of writing with a message”
From Washington University’s marvelous Modern Literature Collection YouTube channel. Tagged: Film, Interview, JR, The Recognitions, Video, William Gaddis
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No possibility of transcendence (Elena Ferrante)
I’m always surprised when someone points out as a flaw the fact that my stories contain no possibility of transcendence. Here I’d like to move on to a statement of principle: since the age of fifteen,...
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Reviews and riffs of February-May, 2016 (and an unrelated stag)
Hey, wow. Haven’t done one of these in a while. I reread William Gaddis’s big big novel J R, writing— Only a handful of novels are so perfectly simultaneously comic and tragic. Moby-Dick? Yes....
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An Interview with Novelist Brian Hall About His Contribution to Waywords and...
Author Brian Hall is known for his diverse subject matter. His 2003 novel I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company is a fictionalized account of Lewis and Clark, and his 2008 novel The Fall of...
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Tell me, would you please, about Jane Bowles
INTERVIEWER Tell me, would you please, about Jane Bowles. BOWLES That’s an all-inclusive command! What can I possibly tell you about her that isn’t implicit in her writing? INTERVIEWER She obviously...
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“Translation is an act of risk”| An interview with Rainer J. Hanshe on...
Rainer J. Hanshe is the translator of My Heart Laid Bare & Other Texts, a collection of writings by Charles Baudelaire, new from Contra Mundum Press. Over a series of emails, Hanshe was kind...
View ArticleThe writer as a confidence man (William Gaddis)
To turn now–it’s not a different direction; it’s this whole idea of the risk of authorial absence and the risk one takes with the reader putting down the book, saying, “It’s too much trouble, I don’t...
View ArticleThere’s a little bit of terror to almost all the good stuff (Barry Hannah)
There’s a little bit of terror to almost all the good stuff I recall in literature, a little bit of terror, like Heart o f Darkness. I love the ghost story. I love to go after mysteries. I think all...
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This is the meat locker, where Dolores’s parts are | From Conversations with...
What’s in here? This is the meat locker, where Dolores’s parts are. When the electrician wired it up, he asked, “What do you use this for?” I said, “Oh, that’s just where I keep my victims.” There was...
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Todd Haynes interviewed at Slate about his film The Velvet Underground
Sam Adams has a nice conversation with director Todd Haynes about The Velvet Underground, Haynes’ marvelous documentary about the band. I saw the film this weekend and it’s one of the best musical...
View ArticleAny serious writer is experimental in that he’s trying to do something new or...
McCarthy’s works have been termed “experimental” by most critics but he thinks that can be said of most serious writers. “Any serious writer is experimental in that he’s trying to do something new or...
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