Elegant Plotting: An Interview with David Bajo
“I barely scraped the surface of the vast bank of medical cases I had at my disposal”: David Bajo talks with Tyler McMahon about the world of medicine, literary plotting, and Mercy 6, his latest novel.
“I barely scraped the surface of the vast bank of medical cases I had at my disposal”: David Bajo talks with Tyler McMahon about the world of medicine, literary plotting, and Mercy 6, his latest novel.
“I felt like I needed a way to stay curious with the material”: Brittani Sonnenberg chats with Danielle Lazarin about Home Leave, her new novel.
“It was the first of many moments in the writing of Shirley when I felt as if I were on a path guided by unseen forces”: Susan Scarf Merrell chats with Ellen Prentiss Campbell about her new novel and her relationship to the work of Shirley Jackson.
“I wish I were one of those people with very set routines, lovely offices, fresh flowers, yoga poses, no Internet, and so on. But I’m not. I’m the queen of clutter and chaos”: Robin Black talks with Nichole Bernier about hipness, success, and her new novel, Life Drawing.
“The answer, perhaps, is not being afraid to get up at four in the morning”: Charles Blackstone tells Nick Ostdick about his latest novel, Vintage Attractions.
“I would be sitting there typing, typing, typing and saying, ‘Die, die, die'”: Jane Smiley talks with Mary Camille Beckman about practice novels, Dickens, and her forthcoming trilogy.
On Lydia Davis’s “Letter” stories from her new collection, Can’t and Won’t
“When I was younger I challenged myself to write things my family members might be uncomfortable reading, or things that could get me in hot water with people I knew”: Jared Yates Sexton on his collection, An End to All Things.
“Writing is nothing but entering the memories of the body”: Bulgarian writer Viriginia Zaharieva talks with Steven Wingate about her novel Nine Rabbits.
“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.
