Everything is Breaking News: An Interview with A.M. Homes
by Rebecca Scherm
A.M. Homes discusses the work of writing timeless human behavior in rapidly changing moment.
A.M. Homes discusses the work of writing timeless human behavior in rapidly changing moment.
The secrets George Orwell revealed in Down and Out in London and Paris pale in comparison to the practices in the Camdentown kitchen of The Swan.
Travis Kurowski talks to Jen Michalski about writing in every form, from comic book poetry to the novel (and back again).
“There is an experience it implies, a weary worldliness with which many writers aspire to imbue their characters.”
“Writing is nothing but entering the memories of the body”: Bulgarian writer Viriginia Zaharieva talks with Steven Wingate about her novel Nine Rabbits.
When meaning eludes us, we add and subtract, stack and build, until we’ve mosaicked our way deeper into the mystery.
Some of the most complex and weighty signifiers are brand names, celebrity names, clichés, and propagandist phrases like “axis of evil.” These categories overlap: celebrity names are brand names, brand names are propaganda, propaganda is cliché, etc. “Axis of evil” is a place to start because of its obviousness. No educated person I have met can vocalize this phrase without quotation marks implicit in the vocal texture. What do these quotation marks mean? I think they mean we don’t wish anyone to think we are complicit with the ideology behind the phrase. We use quotation marks to indicate awareness of […]
Nina Buckless talks to Nicholas Delbanco about talent, genius, and the work of “lastingness.”
“I wanted the reader to feel wounded that these souls had been taken from us,” Patrick Hicks says of the minor characters in his new novel, The Commandant of Lubizec.
Editor’s Note: The Hopwood Room Roundtable is a weekly event in which visiting writers of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing discuss their work and the writing life with the University of Michigan’s student body, faculty, and the local literary community. Despite the ongoing gloom of this Midwestern winter, Kathryn Davis filled the Hopwood room with writers eager to ask her questions. Davis told us that she loves answering reader questions. “You never know what somebody’s going to ask you.” It seems simple now to write this out, but I suppose you never know what you really think […]
