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‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
Ruchir Joshi | Interview
Ruchir Joshi
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on his essay ‘Tracing Puppa’, Calcutta and his dreams of writing for Granta.
Daniel Alarcón | Interview
Daniel Alarcón & Helen Gordon
‘The strangest parts of a story are not necessarily the fictional elements.’
Uwem Akpan | Interview
Uwem Akpan & Jeremiah Chamberlin
‘I just wanted to say something about how decent people struggle in difficult situations.’
Soumya Bhattacharya | Interview
Soumya Bhattacharya & Roy Robins
‘The emotion and the impulse of fiction is autobiographical, but the events never are.’
Mark Crick | Interview
Mark Crick
Mark Crick on the DIY tips of the world’s greatest novelists, how to inhabit another writer’s voice and why there is nothing more erotic than painting.
Hannah Gersen | Interview
Hannah Gersen & Roy Robins
‘It’s very satisfying to write short stories because it can be a kind of game — to see how much can be revealed with just a few thousand words.’
David Heatley | Interview
David Heatley & Simon Willis
‘There’s something magical about a pictographic doodle that’s simple enough to scan and then move on.’
Erin McMillan | Interview
Erin McMillan & Roy Robins
‘The other important component of the why of writing is that I’ve always been a bit of a liar.’
Andre Dubus III | Interview
Andre Dubus III & Catherine Tung
‘Everybody gets an imagination at birth, and I truly believe that deep down, we all have an intimate knowledge of the other.’
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’
Jonathan Raban | Interview
Jonathan Raban & Helen Gordon
‘The term ‘man of letters’ now seems hopelessly archaic, but I’d like to think there’s still life left in the notion of the writer who’s just a writer.’
