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* Lit Hub // The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

September 9, 2019

In my latest essay for LitHub, I wrote about Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels and the Big Book of Classic Fantasy.

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

 

 

* Lit Hub // George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

July 22, 2019

I continued my conversation with Robert Macfarlane and also spoke with translator Emily Wilson about the notion of “thin places” and the slippages between the real and the extra-real.

George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

* Lit Hub // Interview with Robert Macfarlane

June 6, 2019

Over at LitHub, I interviewed Robert Macfarlane about his latest book, Underland.

Robert Macfarlane Finds a Little Hope in the World’s Darkest Places

* Brooklyn Rail // Then I Put In My False Heart: Sarah Rose Etter in conversation with Andrew Ervin

April 30, 2019

Over at Brooklyn Rail, I interviewed Sarah Rose Etter about here excellent new novel The Book of X.

“The exchange between visual art and writing deserves a lot more exploration. Constantly, I was asking myself how the scenes in this book would look if they were painted or made into a movie, then aiming for something more wild, new, and true.”

* LitHub // “From Northland to Underland, What We Risk Losing”

April 22, 2019

From Northland to Underland, What We Risk Losing

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  • Brooklyn Rail // Interviewed by Matthew Simmons about “Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera”
  • New York Times Book Review // The Shortlist
  • Brooklyn Rail // Down Away from the Sun You’ll Burrow: A Conversation with Lawrence Schick
  • Untoward Magazine // Dead Center of My Heart: A Conversation with Amber Sparks
  • * The first American review of Krasznahorkai?
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