Thoughts From The Hopwood Room: Kazuo Ishiguro on “Who’s Your Teacher?”
by Brandon Bye
From the Archives: In honor of Kazuo Ishiguro’s recent Nobel Prize, we revisit the author’s visit to the Hopwood Room in 2015.
From the Archives: In honor of Kazuo Ishiguro’s recent Nobel Prize, we revisit the author’s visit to the Hopwood Room in 2015.
“When the idea, as originally conceived, drops out of the story in question, that piece becomes almost like a donut—with a missing center. I feel like that’s what fiction is supposed to do, in a way”: Doug Trevor chats with Jeff Henebury about writing long short stories, the many powers of books, the MFA community, and his new collection, The Book of Wonder, out today from SixOneSeven Books.
“So here, in his creative and affectionate treatment of both Larkin and Hull, the author reminds us to look more deeply”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Jonathan Tulloch’s new novel, Larkinland, out this month from Seren Books.
“The work of being a writer involves a continual examination of one’s work, one’s own self, as well as one’s biases, in relationship to the wider world”: Kaitlin Solimine chats with Hasanthika Sirisena about her debut novel, Empire of Glass, out now from Ig Publishing.
“If someone reads this book and ends up questioning her own beliefs, I’ll feel I’ve done my job well”: Joan Dempsey with Dawna Kemper on her debut novel, This Is How It Begins, out this week from She Writes Press.
“Oh, you’d think it would be so much easier the second time”: Nancy Kilgore chats with Kim Church about her second novel, Wild Mountain, out this week from Green Writers Press.
“I’ve heard readers say they see their own relationships to food and body image in the book and there’s real power in seeing oneself represented that way”: Noley Reid in conversation with Annie Hartnett about her novel Pretend We Are Lovely, published this summer by Tin House Books.
“There is so much published that is all the same. Yet there burns that desire to create something that does not exist. Especially for the Ozarks. Something that is not exactly like anything else under the sun.”
“A voice may change over time, but fingerprints endure, and Gordon’s mark these new pages”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Mary Gordon’s There Your Heart Lies, published this summer by Pantheon.
“As a fiction writer I am used to hiding behind the word ‘I'”: Margot Livesey chats with Emily Gray Tedrowe about inspiration, teaching, and The Hidden Machinery, her new book of craft essays, out now from Tin House Books.
