A History of Violence – A Conversation with Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson has written six novels and two short fiction collections—plus her widely acclaimed biography Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Her stories generally gravitate to privileged lives, to East Coast families with summer ...
Is There a Place for Us Hipsters? A conversation with Andrew Martin
All eras considered, the first half of the 2010s was a carefree time to be a young writer living off the bourgeoisie grid. To become an underemployed artist was a brave ...
A Thousand Words With a Master Novelist – A conversation with Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is famous for writing novels that are a product of her curiosity and exacting research rather than any particular inward-looking angst. I confess, there was a time when I ...
Do-it-Yourself Truths – A conversation with Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen lives in a Brooklyn brownstone, and from the window of the room he uses as an office, he has a view of late 19th century residences that have only ...
Collateral Damage in America – A conversation with Helen Benedict
Helen Benedict’s latest novel, Wolf Season (Bellevue Literary Press)–her seventh– cuts right into the current tenor of American culture, with characters who are haunted by the violence of war, including sexual violence, and ...