Interviews

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is Associate Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. A Whiting Writers' Award winner, his fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Playboy, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us, which won a California Book Award. His novel The Orphan Master's Son has just been published by Random House. His books have been translated into sixteen languages. Johnson was a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson is Associate Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. A Whiting Writers' Award winner, his fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Playboy, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us, which won a California Book Award. His novel The Orphan Master's Son has just been published by Random House. His books have been translated into sixteen languages. Johnson was a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

Adam
Johnson

Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin's novel Inside (Knopf) and her story collection Signs and Wonders (Vintage) were both published on June 5, 2012. She is also the author of The Missing Person, a novel, and Babylon and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, and on public radio's Selected Shorts. Born and raised in Montreal, she currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Lafayette College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin's novel Inside (Knopf) and her story collection Signs and Wonders (Vintage) were both published on June 5, 2012. She is also the author of The Missing Person, a novel, and Babylon and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, and on public radio's Selected Shorts. Born and raised in Montreal, she currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Lafayette College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Alix
Ohlin

Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and five-time Jeopardy! champion. He is the author of five novels. Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His most recent book, The Tragedy of Arthur, was also named a New York Times Notable Book, and the play taken from that book is being developed for a full stage production. His work has been published in twenty-seven languages, and is the source of three films currently in development.

Photo by Barbie Anne Reed.

Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and five-time Jeopardy! champion. He is the author of five novels. Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and received The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His most recent book, The Tragedy of Arthur, was also named a New York Times Notable Book, and the play taken from that book is being developed for a full stage production. His work has been published in twenty-seven languages, and is the source of three films currently in development.

Photo by Barbie Anne Reed.

Arthur
Phillips

Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta is the author of the novels Lightning Field (2001); Eat the Document (2006), which was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Stone Arabia (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007 and received the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in 2008. She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. Photo by Jessica Marx.

Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta is the author of the novels Lightning Field (2001); Eat the Document (2006), which was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Stone Arabia (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007 and received the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in 2008. She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. Photo by Jessica Marx.

Dana
Spiotta

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is the author, most recently, of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), a new translation into English of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Viking Penguin, 2010), and a chapbook entitled The Cows (Sarabande Press, 2011). She is also the author of one novel, The End of the Story, as well as several translations of novels from French. She is currently assembling another book of stories; working on an adaptation of an 1899 British children's classic; and translating from Dutch very short stories (zeer korte verhalen). She lives in upstate New York.

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is the author, most recently, of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), a new translation into English of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Viking Penguin, 2010), and a chapbook entitled The Cows (Sarabande Press, 2011). She is also the author of one novel, The End of the Story, as well as several translations of novels from French. She is currently assembling another book of stories; working on an adaptation of an 1899 British children's classic; and translating from Dutch very short stories (zeer korte verhalen). She lives in upstate New York.

Lydia
Davis

Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura is a critic and novelist living in New York City. She is the author of The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2012). The Longshot was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and is currently being developed into a feature film by Peter Berg. Kitamura has written for The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired, and is a regular contributor to Frieze and Art Monthly.

Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura is a critic and novelist living in New York City. She is the author of The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2012). The Longshot was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and is currently being developed into a feature film by Peter Berg. Kitamura has written for The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired, and is a regular contributor to Frieze and Art Monthly.

Katie
Kitamura

Richard Shelton

Richard Shelton

Richard Shelton is the author of twelve books or chapbooks of poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in more than 200 magazines and literary journals. He is the author of two books of creative nonfiction: Going Back to Bisbee, which won the Western States Book Award, and Crossing the Yard, which chronicles his work establishing creative writing workshops for inmates in Arizona state prisons. In addition to writing Mr. Shelton serves as Regents Professor (emeritus) of English at the University of Arizona.

Richard Shelton

Richard Shelton

Richard Shelton is the author of twelve books or chapbooks of poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in more than 200 magazines and literary journals. He is the author of two books of creative nonfiction: Going Back to Bisbee, which won the Western States Book Award, and Crossing the Yard, which chronicles his work establishing creative writing workshops for inmates in Arizona state prisons. In addition to writing Mr. Shelton serves as Regents Professor (emeritus) of English at the University of Arizona.

Richard
Shelton

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has contributed to many journals including, The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, and Conjunctions. Her honors and awards include three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City.

Photo by Marion Ettlinger.

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has contributed to many journals including, The New York Times, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, and Conjunctions. Her honors and awards include three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City.

Photo by Marion Ettlinger.

Sigrid
Nunez