Monday May 01st 2006, 10:38 am
Novel Politics - New York Times
Interview with Carlos Fuentes, probably Mexico’s greatest writer.
Why doesn’t Mexico have a vice president?
Because immediately he would plot against the president and have him unseated and probably killed, which is what happened when the vice-presidential function existed in Mexico in the 19th century.
Subjects: fiction, interview
Thursday March 16th 2006, 7:29 pm
COMICON.com: ALAN MOORE GETS BEAT
What happened, at DC, they’d been asking if we’d do the Charlton characters and then they said, we don’t want you to use the Charlton characters, can you come up with your own. I said yeah we can and we were assured, if you come up with characters of your own, […]
Thursday January 19th 2006, 1:28 pm
The Morning News - Bret Easton Ellis, by Robert Birnbaum
Ellis’s latest effort, Lunar Park, details the efforts of a writer named Bret Easton Ellis to access a normal life (marriage, house in the suburbs, children adopted and conceived) after participating in the depredations and substance abuses endemic to fast-lane urban life at the end of […]
Monday December 26th 2005, 2:56 pm
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | ‘It no longer feels a great injustice that I have to die’
“Maybe we shouldn’t be talking about literature at all,” I say.
“Ha, ha,” he says. “Now you’re talking! I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the […]
Monday December 26th 2005, 2:45 pm
On the Spot at Fantasybookspot: Kelly Link | Fantasybookspot
Kelly Link writes books with zombies in them.
Subjects: interview, fiction
Wednesday October 19th 2005, 6:20 pm
Rake’s Progress: Birnbaum/Lethem
If I’ve ever said anything bad about Jonathan Lethem, I take it all back.
Subjects: criticism, interviews, fiction
Saturday September 17th 2005, 12:55 pm
Neil Gaiman: ‘All the rules are turned upside down.’
Funny interview with Neil…
Subjects: interviews, fiction