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Don DeLillo | Interview

Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi

‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’

Granta Italy Sex | Interview

Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson

‘I think that the metaphor of bodily failure is a very apt one to reflect the feeling of weakness and despondency palpable today within the Italian society.’

Nick Dybek | Interview

Nick Dybek & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Maybe it’s what draws so many writers to the adolescent perspective; during that time, imagination and experience are in a death match.’

Peter Orner | Interview

Peter Orner & Ted Hodgkinson

‘For me the strange moments that make up our lives are plot.’

Owen Freeman | Interview

Owen Freeman & Daniela Silva

‘As illustrators, our first and last service is to bring the readers’ eyes to the author’s work.’

Justin Torres | Interview

Justin Torres & Jennifer de Leon

‘I wanted to write a book about a family so complicated, so in love, and so flawed, that folks would resist easy categories.’

Karen Russell | Interview

Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan

‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’

Julie Otsuka | Interview

Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan

‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’

Patrick deWitt | Interview

Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson

‘The question of whether or not I’m addressing America in my writing only comes up with people outside of America.’

Wiam El-Tamami | Interview

Wiam El-Tamami & Ted Hodgkinson

‘So you see, translators tread a tricky tightrope between capturing the full implications of the Arabic while creating an English text that flows smoothly and doesn’t sound overwrought, dated, or downright melodramatic.’

David Guterson | Interview

David Guterson & John Freeman

‘Hubris, power, sex, ambition, frailty, pathos, descent, castigation: there but for the grace of gods go I, and as long as it isn’t me, great!’

Nadia Shira Cohen | Interview

Nadia Shira Cohen & Michael Salu

‘What I do hope is to be able to tell people’s stories, people who might otherwise have been forgotten by society, locally and otherwise.’

Patrick deWitt | Interview

Patrick deWitt & Ted Hodgkinson

‘Names are always hard to come by for me, which can be maddening, because it’s an ever-looming question mark when I’m trying to bring a character into focus. And oftentimes it’s the name that solidifies someone in my mind.’

Samantha Smith | Interview

Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson

‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’