“I like binaries, but only if I get to play with them and break them down”: Lillian Li answers all Emily Nagin’s questions about writing her debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant, out next Tuesday from Henry Holt.
From the Archives: In this 2010 interview Charlotte Boulay talks with Hannah Tinti about the influence of art in her work, how writers find their subject matter, her editorial approach at One Story, and trusting your gut during the drafting process, among other subjects.
“I love how the act of writing a novel teaches you what’s actually important about it”: Michael Shou-Yung Shum chats with Jamie Yourdon about his debut novel, Queen of Spades, out now from Forest Avenue Press.
“This novel has consumed me”: Maryl Jo Fox chats with Diana Wagman about her debut novel, Clara at the Edge, out next Tuesday from She Writes Press.
“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.
From the Archives: Nico Berry talks to Jesmyn Ward in 2009 about her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds.
“I didn’t expect the new chapters—the ones from different characters’ points of view—to be so much fun, so interesting to write, so revealing”: David Hicks chats with Emily Nagin about his debut novel, White Plains, out now from Conundrum Press.
“Renee Macalino Rutledge builds her debut novel on the bedrock of fairy tales”: Christi Craig on The Hour of Day Dreams, out this week from Forest Avenue Press.
“Yes, I like to jump on stage and tell stories and be entertaining”: Mo Daviau chats with Nina Buckless about her debut novel, Every Anxious Wave (St. Martin’s Press).
In Part II of Peter Geye’s interview with Shann Ray, the authors continue their discussion of Ray’s novel American Copper, as well as the rewards of working with good editors, “what makes fiction go,” the lyric in fiction, and more.
