Tin House // You Can Feel It Like a Demon, Swallowing You Slow: An Interview with Marlon James
September 26, 2014
My interview with Marlon James, about his terrific new book A Brief History of Seven Killings, is up at Tin House.
Tin House // A Correction of the Untruths I Was Told as a Child about How the World Works: An Interview with Kyle Minor
February 5, 2014
My interview with Kyle Minor ran in Tin House’s web site on 2/5/14. “The fiction writer, if the fiction writer is worth anything, believes that the story is always in the process of complicating things for the teller, because the telling of the story is constantly forcing the teller to confront the dissonances between the […]
Tin House // Snakes Whose Skins Refuse to be Shed: An Interview with Jeff Jackson
August 19, 2013
My interview with Jeff Jackson ran on Tin House’s web site on 8/19/13. New debut novel Mira Corpora is absolutely terrific. “It’s difficult to say what I might be up to,” the narrator of Jeff Jackson’s debut novel Mira Corpora tells us. His name is also Jeff Jackson. “These days I’m on a need-to-know basis with myself.” […]
Tin House // Even Our Bones Had Memories: An Interview with Matt Bell
April 9, 2013
I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Bell for Tin House: Matt Bell’s visionary debut novel In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and Woods is one of the most singularly strange and beautiful and wondrous books to come along in a long time. I picked it up one afternoon just to […]
Tin House // It’s the Disregard of the Natural Landscape that Proves Man’s Intelligence: An Interview with Ken Kalfus
March 20, 2013
My interview with the terrific Ken Kalfus is up at the Tin House blog. Historical fiction, we’re told, always says more about the era in which it’s written than that in which it’s set. Yeah, yeah. Set in Egypt in the waning years of the nineteenth century, Ken Kalfus’s glimmering new novel Equilateral takes […]