November 22, 2019
I’ve always wondered if I wrote the first review of László Krasznahorkai in the United States. My review of The Melancholy of Anatomy was published in the Philadelphia City Paper on Jan. 18, 2001.
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
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.
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
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.”