Unclassifiable: Part One of an Interview with Tom Bissell
Part I of James Pinto’s conversation with Tom Bissell on video games, questions of genre, and a writer’s confidence.
Posts Tagged ‘fiction vs. nonfiction’
Book of the Week: The Grief of Others, by Leah Hager Cohen
This week’s feature is Leah Hager Cohen’s new novel, The Grief of Others, which was published in September by Riverhead. Cohen is the author of seven previous books: Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World (1994); Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (1997); Heat Lightning: A Novel (1997); The [...]
Continuous Moments of Truth: An Interview with Leah Hager Cohen
In her eighth book—and fourth novel—Leah Hager Cohen explores the dynamics of grief and mourning with her trademark curious mind and loving attention to detail. Steven Wingate and the author discuss “otherness,” withholding judgment on characters, and the importance of ritual.
Writing Whatever You Want Whenever You Want to Write It: A Conversation With Elif Batuman and Geoff Dyer
Shawn Mitchell talks to Elif Batuman and Geoff Dyer (and they talk to each other) about obsession and addiction, the permeable line between labeling work fiction or nonfiction, Stendahl syndrome, and future projects.
Researching the details in fiction
Mary Roach is my favorite nonfiction writer—partly because she’s wickedly funny, and partly because we share the same fascinated appreciation for the absurd. I’ve been a huge fan since her first book, Stiff, which is about the various uses of human cadavers. In it and all her other books (Spook, about science and the afterlife; [...]
